Recent Streetsblog MASS posts about Crashes

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

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 25, 2023 | No Comments

Even in the context of record-setting bloodshed on Massachusetts roadways last year, Chicopee has seen an unusually high rate of violence from drivers.

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

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 3, 2023 | No Comments

In addition to hundreds of crashes that ended peoples' lives, MassDOT's crash database also records 2,361 crashes that caused serious injuries, plus 16,307 crashes that caused less serious injuries to their victims, during 2022.

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

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 19, 2022 | No Comments

On Sunday morning, a driver used their Toyota sedan as a wrecking ball to destroy a prominent commercial building in Roslindale Square at the corner of Corinth and Birch Streets.

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.

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

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 16, 2022 | No Comments

Somerville police believe that the victim, identified as Stephen Conley, 70, of Somerville, was traveling westbound in the painted bike lane on Broadway when a driver in the adjacent parking lane opened the door of his Land Rover into Conley’s path.

The corner of Massachusetts Avenue (right) and Huntington Avenue, where a truck driver struck and killed a person riding a bicycle on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Courtesy of Google.

Truck Driver Kills Cambridge Man Next to Symphony Hall in Boston

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 14, 2022 | No Comments

Massachusetts Avenue, a major north-south bike route between Cambridge, Back Bay, the South End, and Dorchester, features a paint-only bike lane at the site of the crash.

Two Green Line trains and an MBTA bus meet at the Mission Park stop of the E Branch on Huntington Avenue in Boston.

Driver Strikes Disembarking Passenger at Hazardous Middle-of-the-Street Green Line Stop

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 13, 2022 | No Comments

Around 7 pm Sunday evening, a driver who was allegedly attempting to pass a stopped Green Line train on South Huntington Avenue struck and injured a disembarking passenger.

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