Mapfre Insurance is notifying customers that somebody was able to get into its "online quoting platform" for Massachusetts residents last month and retrieve information about Massachusetts residents and their cars. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer captured the aftermath of a cab crashing into the front porch of a house on Walworth Street at Belgrade Avenue this morning.
DCR is out with an online ad spot that urges newcomers to Boston to keep their rental trucks off the river roads - set to just the sort of plaintive music you'd expect on a late-night ASPCA ad:
For just zero dollars a day you can not hit a bridge or overpass on Storrow Drive and and Soldiers Field Road in Boston and Memorial Drive in Cambridge. ... The bridges, and the trucks, will thank you.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on one of the potential effects of the proposal to add bus and bike lanes in the center of the road, says a September meeting has been scheduled to try to figure out a solution.
The Dorchester Reporter profiles Ellice Patterson, an artist in residence at the Boston Transportation Department whose crawl was "aimed at opening eyes about the challenges within the ongoing Mattapan Square Transportation Action Plan." It took her 45 minutes to almost circumnavigate the complex intersection.
Two of the damaged vehicles.
A fed-up citizen filed a 311 complaint this afternoon imploring the city to do something about all the reckless speeders on Hyde Park Avenue between Cummins Highway and Blakemore Road in Roslindale. Read more.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about this New Hampshire Tesla with LINUX plates parked in a two-hour spot for more than three hours this afternoon on Horace Street just off Byron Street this afternoon.
Photo of respective front ends by TPD.
Transit Police report the driver of a small SUV who turned left in front of a trolley that had the green signal on Commonwealth Avenue at Summit Avenue had to find alternate means to get home - while the trolley driver wound up getting transported to a local hospital with neck and back pain. Read more.
A Hyde Park woman had bail set at $1,000 last week at her arraignment on charges she drove onto a Seaport sidewalk and rammed a man walking there, got out, beat him, then drove away only to crash into a hydrant and light pole, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Josh Borrow spotted somebody puttering down Comm. Ave. by the BU Bridge on a Zamboni - although another observer concluded it was a floor scrubber - this afternoon.
Cambridge Police report that a driver turning left onto Mason Street from Brattle Street slammed into a bicyclist around 8:54 a.m. yesterday. Read more.
Another Gay Boston Realtor, who spotted a storrowing at the Red Line bridge over Freeport Street earlier this month, got stuck in traffic again this afternoon when the driver of a beefy 18-wheeler tried his luck - and lost.
"Noted," Jonathan Mardukas says about the slightly altered electronic signboard he spotted at the playground parking lot at McConnnell Park, overlooking beautiful Dorchester Bay.
Boston Police now report they are looking for a gray, late-model Chevy Spark - and the driver, whom they say killed Ivan Pierre, 4, at Wood Avenue and Tacoma Street in Hyde Park and then drove off on July 18.
Anybody with information can contact detectives at 617-343-4470.
Photo via TPD.
Transit Police have put out an APB for the driver of a Budget rental truck who managed to get rather intimate with Dedham's infamous East Street Bridge around 11:30 a.m. on Monday then, for some reason, decided not to wait around for police. If you know somebody driving around in a Budget truck with some fresh roof damage, contact detectives at 617-222-1050.
An annoyed citizen filed a 311 complaint about the 5 m.p.h. "illegal signage" somebody who is probably annoyed by speeders put up at one of the intersections of Laurie Avenue and Eastwood Circuit (yes, there are two) in West Roxbury.
Like football, storrowing is a game of inches. Magic was on hand to see the proof of that this morning on Huntington Avenue outbound at Mass. Ave., where a trucker found himself in quite a pickle - he couldn't go forward because it looked for sure like he'd rip the roof off his truck. And he couldn't go backwards because, well, this is Boston and the traffic had piled up behind him. Read more.
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