Saturday, September 21, 2013

Slow Saturday Special: Make Way on the Arborway

"Two suffer life-threatening injuries in Arborway crash" by Travis Andersen |  Globe Staff, September 06, 2013

A sport utility vehicle carrying four teenagers crossed the center line on the Arborway in Jamaica Plain on Friday afternoon and flipped over, striking a pickup truck occupied by two men in a devastating crash that left several people with serious injuries, officials said.

All six people involved in the accident, which occurred at about 2 p.m., were taken to area hospitals, State Police said in a statement. The crash occurred on the busy thoroughfare near St. Joseph Street.

State Police said authorities were investigating what caused the SUV with the teens inside to cross the center line. Troopers said the occupants of the SUV were all males....

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Also seeHorrific Arborway wreck ‘hit home’ for Latin Academy coach

Even though no one died. That's horrific hyperbole.

"Dorchester woman charged with fatal South End hit-and-run" by Peter Schworm |  Globe Staff, September 06, 2013

A 21-year-old Dorchester woman was charged Friday with fatally running over a pedestrian near the South End/Roxbury line before fleeing the scene, later telling police she “panicked.”

Police say Christina Martinez struck the woman as she crossed near the intersection of Northampton and Washington streets around 9 Thursday night, then sped away, leaving the woman in the middle of the road.

Witnesses provided the make and license plate of the car, leading police to her apartment, prosecutors said.

When she answered the door, she said “I know why you’re here. I panicked,” assistant district attorney Jennifer O’Keefe said at Martinez’s arraignment in Roxbury District Court. Parked out front, her car had a shattered windshield and other damage, O’Keefe said.

Relatives who appeared in court identified the victim as Vielisha Pullum, 63, a lifelong Boston resident who lived near the scene of the accident. She was on her way home from the store when she was hit, they said....

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Not as horrific, I guess.

I'm going to make way for more Boston Globe Throw-Away by not covering most traffic accidents anymore. If it's in the Metro, it ain't gonna make it.