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Police: Man fleeing traffic stop in Charlestown destroys cars in Everett

Destroyed Toyota in Everett

Updated with State Police info.

State Police say a Somerville man fleeing a traffic stop on Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown early this morning plowed into several cars on Bow Street in Everett, then was picked up while walking down Rte. 99.

Trooper [Kenneth] Dinjian attempted to catch up to the fleeing vehicle as it traveled on Route 99 toward Everett but, for safety reasons, terminated the pursuit.

A short time later, other troopers in the area located the Lexus on Bow Street in Everett and determined that it had crashed into several unoccupied, parked vehicles on that street. The operator of the Lexus was not with the vehicle.

Troopers searched the area and located the operator, William Seaburg, 31, of Somerville, walking on Route 99 in Everett.

Seaburg was charged with a variety of crimes, including OUI, failure to stop for a police officer, negligent operating, speeding, leaving the scene of a personal-injury crash, driving with a suspended or revoked license and marked-lanes violations. He was also wanted on a warrant for assault and battery and for violating an abuse-prevention order, State Police say.

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It's going to be a challenge to link this back around to equally unlawful and dangerous behavior by pedestrians and cyclists, but with the grace of God, I think our commenters are up to it.

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The guy got away on foot. Sounds like your typical law-flaunting pedestrian creating a dangerous situation for everyone around him. I bet he wasn't even wearing his standard-issue fluorescent-green safety vest and 1800 candlepower mining helmet light.

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Well-played, sir.

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Law-flaunting? What, he was waving a copy of the Mass. General Laws in people's face?

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This was the work of an asshole plain and simple. Trying to start a "discussion" regarding this particular story about cars vs cyclists vs pedestrians is also an asshole move.

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What was this hit-and-run driver driving, a tank?

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how much damage a car can do to other, stationary cars parked on a street. I had mine nearly-totaled by a drunk driver on the 4th of July a few years ago, and even after completely crumpling the rear end of my sedan, hers was still in good enough shape to continue down the street and do the same thing to two more cars. If the front axle on hers hadn't finally snapped, she probably could have driven away.

(Pictures of my wreck available on request)

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Pix pls.

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IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/7hLGufxl.png)

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There are engineering trade offs between structural capacity to repel an attack and occupant safety.

In simple language: if a vehicle crumples or crushes, then it transfers less force to the people inside (it takes energy to crumple) over a longer period of time (it takes time to crumple). This prevents people from internally liquefying due to intense shear forces. (yes, I know, not an exact description)

More recent vehicle design has focused on occupant safety at the expense of property damage. A parked car does not know this.

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uhm - did you look at that picture? That camrys roof line was crushed down to the head-rest of the back seat passengers. Anyone in that car would have died.

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But in all fairness that Camry is from 2001. Newer cars are now built better than that poor Camry.

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Citation?

I didn't think structural standards or crash test results changed that much since 2001. Though cars do have a lot more airbags today.

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Even 2001 vehicles are designed to crumple to protect the occupants. Even now, most are designed around the highest-likelihood scenarios (angles of impact, types of crashes). That is part of the trade-offs that are made to get a car on the road.

That car was hit in a manner that was probably not considered to be a likely crash scenario (general lee over the roof?). Very hard to say if this would have been fatal or not - it looks bad, but it really depends on how the impact happened.

I rather vividly remember the mangled vehicles from the 60s and 70s in the impound yard next to my dad's regional highway division station in the early 70s (usually shared with the state police). Horrifying stuff compared to this: some vehicles were more intact, perhaps, but spattered. I think that they intentionally left them in view of the sidewalk, given the high school was across the street.

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the driver was fleeing the police. Which would explain the high speed, loss of control, and extent of damage to the parked cars.

Hard to pin this one on a cyclist or pedestrian.

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Hard to pin this one on a cyclist or pedestrian.

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with the Licensing Board.

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they already will be. do you not see the amount of weapons on that table??

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That'll buff out.

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got out of his car

Or maybe the driver had "borrowed" somebody else's car.

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allegedly borrowed

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So how does insurance work on this? Hard to imagine he thought ahead enough to carry enough coverage for hitting multiple cars.

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Dies anybody here really know where Bow street is without Google? The true blessing was this runaway missile didn't hit a gasoline tanker !

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