A 23-year old passenger was killed in Lynn when a flat bed tow truck struck the Honda Civic he was riding in from behind. The two remaining occupants of the Honda Civic who were riding in the front seat were taken to Salem Hospital for treatment of their injuries. The…
Our Massachusetts traffic accident attorneys have learned that a report released by the Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District examines 23 of the region’s most car accident-prone intersections. Eight of those are in Fall River. The report was released last week, and it shows that 28% of traffic accidents…
According to police, two people died in a late-night motorcycle crash on Tuesday. A 35-year-old Wilmington man was riding west on Route 110 when his motorcycle crossed into the opposite lane. It reportedly hit two other motorcycles and a car. The first motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene of…
Currently, several states require should safety states require school buses to have shoulder safety belts, but Massachusetts is not among them. According to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, there were 1,730 school bus accidents reported in the Commonwealth in 2008, and almost a thousand more reported in 2009. The state…
On Monday afternoon, a 60-year-old Action, Massachusetts man died in a car versus motorcycle accident. The crash occurred in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where the man was traveling east on state road 414 in Leroy Township. The motorcyclist made a U-turn and was hit by a minivan traveling west. The driver,…
Last week, Massachusetts police announced plans to crack down on impaired drivers in an effort to reduce the number of car accidents involving state troopers. So far this year, 87 officers have been killed in the line across the country. More than half of those were in Massachusetts. Four recent…
On Monday afternoon, a motorcycle accident in Becket, Massachusetts claimed the life of a 59-year-old woman from Switzerland. She was riding a three-wheel motorcycle west on the Massachusetts turnpike when her moved into the breakdown lane and hit the guardrail, skidding almost 200 feet. The woman was thrown off the…
On Tuesday, a runaway dump truck took out several cars and utility poles before it finally came to rest. The truck accident occurred near a busy intersection in Woburn, Massachusetts. Fortunately, no injuries were reported and NSTAR was able to restore the lost power. The truck’s driver, a Rockland, Massachusetts…
Last week, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, 59, of Duxbury, was involved in a motorcycle accident in Middleboro, Massachusetts. The 62-year-old woman who rear-ended the musician says she did not recognize Perry until investigators clued her in. The motorcycle crash occurred around 2pm on Thursday, July 15 at Route 44 and…
On Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old Billerica man died after being hit by a commuter rail train in Wilmington. Authorities suspended commuter rail service between Anderson RTC and North Billerica stations following the train crash. Shuttle buses transported passengers between stations during the mid-afternoon. The tracks under the Route 129 bridge…