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A Toyota Camry driven by an elderly Westford woman struck an unidentified Concord woman and her two children Saturday morning at about 9:00 a.m. as the family was crossing Commonwealth Avenue in Concord. What Happened According to The Boston Globe, the woman and her two sons, a 20-month-old and a 5-year-old, were crossing the roadway at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Winthrop Street. The unnamed elderl [...]

Three separate MO car accidents in Jasper County over the weekend left one Carthage resident dead and twelve more with injuries, according to a recent article in the Carthage Press. A fatal car crash in Missouri on Highway 249 took the life of a 2 [...]

Police have finally identified the victim of a single-vehicle Waltham motorcycle accident on Friday, December 9, as a Waltham man, according to the Waltham Patch. The motorcyclist suffered serious body and head injuries after crashing into a utility pole at 255 Bear Hill Road and was transported to a Boston area hospital via medical transport helicopter. Potential Crash Causes The Waltham Police Accident Reconstruc [...]

An unidentified 73-year-old man was killed last Monday after a 3,500 pound winch fell on top of him at the Mullins Marine Service Yard in Winthrop. The Boston Globe reported that the bolts connecting the winch to the concrete supports failed, causing the winch to disconnect from the supports and crush the man between the wall and the winch itself. The fire department responded and were able to free the man, who w [...]

In an article out this week in The Boston Globe, it was revealed that 75% of escalators in shopping malls across Massachusetts were not thoroughly or even regularly inspected over the past 3 years. According to the Globe, a mere 44 out of the 188 mall escalators in the Commonwealth were inspected over 2008 through 2010. Escalators were found to be passed over for an entire year and some weren’t inspected for 2 [...]

Edward Rowe, 46, of Haverhill sustained serious leg injuries in a work accident early Wednesday morning after falling down a 30-foot shaft in between the Red Line tracks near Charles Circle in Boston. According to The Eagle Tribune edition out today, Rowe is an electrician with the MBTA and was working in between the Red Line train tracks around 4:30am yesterday morning as part of the Longfellow Bridge project. W [...]

The Salem News is reporting today that an employee of Millipore in Danvers was struck by a newspaper delivery driver early yesterday morning and sustained serious injuries. What Happened The unidentified employee was reportedly on his break around 4:00 a.m. and was walking across Cherry Hill Drive in the office park where Millipore is located when he was hit by a GMC Sierra truck making newspaper deliveries of The [...]

The Boston Globe reports that a 31-year-old woman and two children sustained serious injuries after they were struck by a Ford pickup truck while crossing Nantasket Avenue in Hull early Tuesday evening just before 6:00 p.m. What Happened The woman and two children, ages 9 and 11, were crossing the roadway when an unidentified 61-year-old man from Hull hit the pedestrians with his truck. The 11-year-old girl and t [...]

An unidentified Somerville woman was struck by a Department of Public Works dump truck this morning just after 8:00 a.m. The Boston Globe reports that the woman is in her 50s and that she sustained injuries considered to be life-threatening. The woman was reportedly crossing Washington Street in Somerville in the area of Webster Avenue when the dump truck struck her. Emergency workers transported the woman and th [...]

The Boston Globe reported this morning that an unidentified 74-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle as she was crossing Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge last night at about 8:30 p.m.  According to authorities, the unnamed driver immediately stopped after the fatal pedestrian accident and has cooperated with police. The elderly woman was transported to an area hospital, where she succumbed to her critical injuri [...]