State Police are looking into a Marlborough, MA box truck accident involving a bicyclist. The rider had to be flown by hair to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester following the morning traffic crash. The trucker has not been criminally charged. However, he was cited for driving with an expired…
Police are still investigating a hit-and-run bicycle accident near Kenmore Square that killed an MIT professor this weekend. Kanako Miura, 36, a native from Japan and visiting professor at MIT since 2012, was struck and killed by a truck while riding her bike at the intersection of Beacon Street and…
On Monday, the city of Cambridge was named a Gold-level bicycle friendly community by The League of American Bicyclists, making it the highest rated city to bicycle in on the East coast. The recognition and ceremony comes in observance of National Bike Safety Month. Cambridge, which is only one of…
Town officials in Wellesley are considering creating bike lanes to make roads safer for cyclists. The proposed plan comes after a 41-year-old man was struck and killed by a truck while riding his bicycle last year. “Every time somebody is injured on our roads-particularly when someone dies-the selectmen take it…
Officials decided not to file criminal charges against a truck driver who struck and killed a bicyclist, so now the deceased’s family is filing a lawsuit against the driver. Alex Motsenigos, 41, was riding his bike on Weston Road on August 24 when an 18-wheel dump trailer him him. Emergency…
People no longer have to be in a car to be involved in a motor vehicle accident. Victims are involved in such accidents when they are struck by a car, and they suffer substantial injuries. On September 28th, 52-year old Mark Theobald was walking on Center Street in Stockton, Massachusetts…
Massachusetts bears the distinction of being ranked the United States’ third most “Bicycle Friendly State” for 2012. The Bay State placed 9th in 2011, 16th in 2010, and 19th in 2009. The secretary of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Secretary Richard A. Davey, said that the state’s rising rank over…
A 56-year-old man was crossing the Bourne Bridge this morning when he lost control of his bicycle and fell onto the roadway and in the path of a tractor trailer. According to State Police and Bourne police, the man was heading northbound, off of Cape Cod, at about 5:40 a.m.…
The death of Boston College graduate student and Seattle native Kelsey Rennebohm remains under investigation, but officials have reportedly identified a Route 39 MBTA bus as being potentially involved in the incident, according to The Boston Globe. Rennebohm, who died Friday in a bicycle accident, was studying at the Boston…
Phyo Kyaw, a 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, age 23, was killed on campus on Tuesday night after his bicycle was hit by an oil tanker. At approximately 7:40 p.m., he was riding his bicycle at the intersection of Vassar Street and Massachusetts Avenue when the oil tanker was…