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Crashes

UPS Truck Driver Strikes and Kills Tufts University Professor in Newton

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Christian MilNeil

A man and a woman in casual clothing hold signs next to a wide four-lane street. A grand Italianate-style library building with tall arched windows is in the background behind them on the other side of the street. The man holds a sign reading "keep kids safe: build the promised crossing" and the woman holds a sign reading "No more deaths! SLOW DOWN"

Vision Zero

Springfield Librarians Protest City’s Failure to Fix Deadly Pedestrian Crossing on State Street

Map of Wellfleet on Cape Cod. Route 6 runs north-south through the center of the map, in the middle of the Cape Cod isthmus. The crash site is highlighted in the center, near Wellfleet Harbor. The Cape Cod Rail Trail is shown as a green line that runs just east of Route 6 on the southern part of the map between Wellfleet and Eastham.

Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Man On Route 6 In Wellfleet

Why Regulators Are Ignoring 90% Of ‘Underride’ Crash Deaths — And Not Counting Vulnerable Road Users At All

A wide intersection with a small island planted with flowers in the foreground. The street is lined with multi-story buildings with small businesses on the ground floor. A group of three teens crosses the crosswalk in the middle distance.

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Andover Town Officials Ignored Residents’ Warnings About Site of Fatal Crash

A wide intersection with a multi-story brick building on the far side. In the foreground is a triangular traffic island surrounded by asphalt where three crosswalks meet.

Truck Driver Kills 5-Year-Old Girl In a Downtown Andover Crosswalk

A person riding a bike along a sunny one-way street next to some two-story buildings with stores on the ground floor.

In Chicopee, Drivers Have Killed 8 People Since September

A freshly-painted green bike lane runs alongside a row of white flexible-post bollards and the sidewalk, where a white bicycle leaning against a traffic light pole memorializes George Clemmer, a bicyclist who was killed at this intersection in July 2022.

2022 Was Another Record-Breaking Year For Bloodshed on Massachusetts Roadways

The aftermath of a car crash. A gold-colored Toyota sedan is buried in rubble with its front end poking into a barbershop on the ground floor of a two-story brick building with several small business storefronts. Above it, a section of the building's wall is completely collapsed, leaving second-floor offices exposed to the open air. Several firefighters mill about in the foreground across the street.

Driver Demolishes Small Businesses in Roslindale Square

A Google Street View image of Broadway in Somerville near the site where Stephen Conley crashed. The roadway includes two parking lanes against the curbs, two travel lanes for cars, and two green-painted bike lanes in between the parking and moving vehicle lanes. In the middle distance is a traffic light at the intersection of Packard Avenue. The bike lanes do not continue beyond that intersection.

Bicycling

Mayor Pledges ‘Immediate’ Action After Somerville Resident Killed In Door-Zone Bike Lane