Articles Posted in Car Accidents

According to a recent news report from the Boston Globe, a 34-year-old man from Western Massachusetts was killed in a single-vehicle car accident. Authorities say he was driving a 2000 Nissan Maxima when he lost control. His vehicle hit a large wood utility pole and then ran into a tree on the right side of the roadway. This accident occurred around 11:45 p.m. near Route 20 in Brimfield.

Authorities do not know why the vehicle lost control and are continuing to investigate the cause of the fatal car accident.

Cases involving only a single vehicle may require far more investigation than police are often willing to perform. This is not to blame police, as they have many important duties to perform and may lack resources and personnel to fully investigate every car accident. In situations such as these, since there is no other victim claiming negligence, or accusing someone of drunk driving, officers may simply conclude an investigation when cause is unknown, or in worst cases, assume it was driver error.
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According to a recent news report from The Boston Herald, two victims were killed in a fiery car crash on Interstate 195 in Swansea, about 50 miles south of Boston.

Authorities say they responded to a motor vehicle accident report around 11 p.m. When they arrived on the scene, they found a single vehicle completely engulfed in flames. They believe the vehicle hit a tree and burst into flames after running off the roadway.

Firefighters were able to suppress the fire and get three occupants out of the vehicle. The two victims who were killed in this tragic single-car accident were a 22-year-old female and a 19-year-old male victim. There was a third victim in the car, a 20-year-old male from Taunton, Massachusetts, who survived the accident, but suffered serious personal injuries as result of the crash. First responders transported him to a local hospital for immediate medical attention after stabilizing him on the scene. Authorities are still investigating the cause of this double fatal Massachusetts car accident.

As our Boston car accident lawyers can explain, single vehicle accidents happen all the time, and that does not mean victims cannot be compensated for their injuries. However, these cases sometimes involve a somewhat different procedure than accidents involving an at-fault driver who was driving a different vehicle.
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Most car accidents do not make national news unless there are particular outrageous facts or serious injuries. However one recent Washington state truck accident made big news when it crashed, resulting in millions of honeybees being released onto the highway.

Authorities say the truck was transporting millions of bees to a blueberry farm when it overturned. The crash resulted in bees being thrown from the wreck on the roadway and surround area. It is suspected the truck blew a tire when entering on an on-ramp causing it to roll over. Authorities also say there is a possibility driver was speeding at time of rollover accident, and he may have been falling asleep.

When firefighters arrived at the scene of this truck crash, they found most of the 458 hives carrying up to 30,000 bees each had spilled onto the highway, amounting to around 12 million bees. Firefighters sprayed the hives with fire retardant chemicals, which killed many of the bees. Authorities also found bee keepers to come to the scene, where they worked for hours while wearing protective clothing to contain the rest of bees that had escaped from the truck. Witnesses say there were mounds of dead honeybees everywhere. Bees swarmed onto other trucks on the road, including many belonging to beekeepers and rescue workers. The bees, which did not die from firefighter’s chemicals, were placed in boxes and taken by flatbed truck to the blueberry farm where they were originally headed. It is not believed anyone was injured in this unusual truck accident.
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According to a recent report from Mass Live, a serious car crash on Storrow Drive in Boston resulted in the death of one woman. Authorities say they were notified of the accident around 4 p.m., and when they arrived on the scene, they observed victim’s car, which had run into a guardrail at the Charles Gate on ramp.

Massachusetts State Police troopers from the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and Crime Scene Services from the Boston barracks have been tasked to investigate the cause of this accident and find out exactly why victim’s car ran off the road into the concrete barrier. Early results of their investigation suggest victim was heading east on the on ramp to Storrow Drive and did not slow down when nearing it.
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According to a recent article from the Boston Globe, a 43-year member of the Halifax Fire Department was killed in a deadly car accident in Plympton, Massachusetts, and another victim suffered a serious personal injury. The victim was a current member of the town’s fire department and also served as the chaplain, according to fire department officials.

The fatal car accident occurred around 2 p.m. on Route 58 in Plympton.

A truck driving in the northbound lane weaved across the center yellow line and hit another truck in a head-on collision. Authorities investigating the Massachusetts car accident say the firefighter was killed and paramedics pronounced him dead on scene. The driver of the truck that hit victim suffered serious injuries in the crash, and first responders transported him to a Boston area hospital for immediate medical treatment. There has been no report of alleged at-fault driver’s medical condition, and it does not appear authorities have charged him with any crime in connection with this deadly car crash.
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According to a recent news article in My Fox Boston, a family was involved in a serious rollover car crash. During the crash, the family lost their dog.
The family was bringing their dog home when they were involved in the car accident.

Husband was behind the wheel when they say another car was about to hit them. He yelled out to warn the others in the car, and, before he knew it, family’s SUV was struck and rolled over several times.

A group of bystanders who had witnessed the accident rushed to the family’s assistance. They were able to pull victims out of the car and call local police. The bystanders were also able to force at-fault driver to stay on the scene of the accident until police arrived.
When authorities arrived on the scene, they immediately suspected at-fault driver who had collided with victim’s car to be operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, and later placed him under arrested for drunk driving in connection with an automobile accident.

While the family was not seriously injured in the rollover accident, they realized their beloved dog was missing. The family was heartbroken and put a message on Facebook asking people to help find their dog. The dog was considered their son’s dog and best friend.

The family received a call from a local news station informing them someone had located the missing dog. The family issued a statement that they could not express how much joy they felt when they discovered their dog had been found. They thanked everyone who had prayed with them and were now celebrating with them after they were reunited with the dog.
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According to a recent article in the Lowell Sun, first responders arrived at scene in response to a dispatch call for a serious car accident in Dracut, Massachusetts. The accident occurred around 4 p.m. on New Boston Road. When firefighters got to the scene of the crash, they found a driver still trapped in his car.

Emergency personnel worked to free the trapped driver from his wrecked vehicle, which they believe skidded sideways into a utility pole. Impact was first made on the driver’s side of the vehicle. Emergency medical technicians and firefighters got driver out of his car, and he was transported by ambulance to Dracut High School, where they had already arranged for a medevac helicopter to meet them in the school’s parking lot. Paramedics secured injured driver in the medevac helicopter and transported him to a Boston level one trauma center.

Police conducted an investigation, which is still underway, and, while the cause of the accident and victim’s current condition are still unknown, they noted the utility pole was completely severed about ten feet off the ground. It was still standing up due to the support wires anchoring it in place.
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Police are trained to be extremely cautious when standing next to a car on the side of an active roadway. They are taught when pulling a driver over on the right shoulder, to park their cruiser behind suspect’s vehicle, but also to the left so as not to be directly behind it. They are trained never to stand in the area between suspect’s vehicle and the police car. This area is the most dangerous place to be standing, and is aptly named the “kill zone” in law enforcement traffic enforcement manuals.

Unfortunately, civilians do not receive this training and are often unaware of the dangers of standing next to a disabled or stopped vehicle on the side of a street or highway can present. According to a recent news article from CBS Boston, a man was killed doing just that.

Authorities say civilians called them to the scene of a three-car crash in Brighton, Massachusetts just outside Boston proper late Friday night. Police soon learned that the tragedy began with a minor fender-bender car crash between a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis and a 1998 Honda Accord. Following this minor traffic accident, the parties pulled their vehicles over to the side of the road and got out to inspect damage and trade insurance information.
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According to a news feature from Rolling Stone, two people died and 23 more were injured in Austin when a car crashed into a music festival. Authorities say the street had been closed for an outdoor concert as part of the music festival and a temporary barricade had been erected.

Alleged at-fault driver drove through the temporary barricade and crashed into a large group of concert attendees. Police say they had set up a nearby sobriety checkpoint in which they were looking for suspected drunk drivers. When defendant saw the sobriety checkpoint, he is alleged to have swerved his car through a gas station, and then fled the scene, driving the wrong way down a one-way street.

At this point, officers activated their emergency equipment and went after suspect. As defendant approached the closed street, one officer standing in front of the barricade had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit by defendant’s car. The driver kept going through the temporary barricade and hit multiple people in the crowed street.
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