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Back Bay smashup involves firetruck, lots of cars
By adamg on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 12:24pm
Penny Cherubino happened on this scene at Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street around 11:45 a.m., reports that ten cars were hit - or damaged in a chain reaction among parked vehicles.
She reports it appears the truck and one car got into a collision in the intersection, then the truck continued into a line of parked cars.
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helicopters
Seems like you just need to get one up in the air in the morning and just start filming. No end of incidents.
Filming a movie?
Whoh ... Looks like a stunt set up for an action movie!
Here's hoping that injuries are minimal.
Have you called 911 yet
To report the EMT's blocking the bike lane?
Why
Would that be a problem? The whole street is blocked.
Only a problem when special snow flakes like yourself decide that the lanes are special anytime parking just for special drivers who are special!
Checkout #12
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Bike lanes improve response times for emergency vehicles.
They can't do this if you are parked in them.
Worst non-sequitur of the
Worst non-sequitur of the week award right there, and it's only a Monday.
Looks to be a spare truck?
Compare this photo of the crashed truck to this photo of Engine 7. Looks like the truck that crashed may have been a spare vehicle.
...which leads me to speculate: Mechanical failure?
Probably not
There was another car on the Comm ave mall sidewalk with the front torn off. Guessing someone didn't yield or that had something to do with the fire truck plowing into the parked cars.
Echoing swirly hope all r ok. Lots of property damage for sure.
Yeah, if this is the fault of
Yeah, if this is the fault of the red car in one of the pictures above, hope they have enough coverage for property damage to others.
Right next to the Vendome Firefighters' Memorial
:-(
Must have been moving fast.
That firetruck had to be moving at a pretty good clip to carry on to clip all the other parked cars and then run up on and over the curb.
What's the speed limit there?
Not necessarily
F=ma. Firetrucks have a lot of m.
At the risk of dabbling in physics
F is irrelevant. It's almost certain that the magnitude of a was very small, 0, or may be in the opposite direction of v (i.e. it was braking).
What you care about is momentum.
p = mv
The truck did, indeed, have lots of m, even if the magnitude of its v was small.
"a" was quite high
In the negative direction.
Lights and Sirens
Lights and Siren = No Speed Limit
May exceed speed limit, but stiil
has to drive for conditions:
From MGL Chapter 89, Section 7B: