Boston Police and Boston EMS responded to River and Arlington streets in Hyde Park after a crash shortly before 7:20 p.m. between a scooter and an SUV. The scooter driver was transported to a Boston trauma center with life-threatening injuries.
Because of the nature of his injuries, the BPD homicide and fatal-accident reconstruction units were brought in.
Police shut River between Metropolitan Avenue and West Street for the investigation.
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"Scooter" can mean a few different things
By Ron Newman
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 11:20pm
Do we know which kind of scooter this was?
Motor scooter
By adamg
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 11:41pm
So not a Razer Scooter or one of those battery powered updates to it.
Why did we stop using the
By Don't Panic
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 6:16am
Why did we stop using the word "moped" for those two passenger, two wheeled scooters? Is it a New York Times: Manual of Style and Usage thing?
"Moped" has a specific definition and a generic one
By Tim Mc.
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 6:36am
so I don't know if that's an improvement. (The specific definition actually has legal consequences.)
"Motor scooter" vs. "kick scooter" gets you pretty close, although the electric variant of the kick scooter makes things harder to name.
I'll go with "motor scooter"
By Don't Panic
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 12:43am
I'll go with "motor scooter" for those two passenger, two wheeled scooters. Now that I looked into it even Vespa calls their motorized products "scooters". Thanks @Tim Mc..
Mopeds have pedals and you sit as if on a bike
By J.R. Dobbs
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 7:09am
Scooters have no pedals and you sit as if on a toilet
Except ...
By adamg
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:08am
There are scooters without seats. Remember a few years ago when a couple of companies tried flooding the area with those things, and they wound up abandoned all over the place even before Boston banned them?
Darn those scoters….
By Dumas Woods
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 12:36am
they get me so angry with all the harm they do….
Oh wait, what’s that you say? It’s the SUVs and trucks which are doing most all of the killing on streets of greater Boston!?!
Maybe we should do something about them!?!
Scoters?
By Allstonian
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 7:00pm
What harm do the sea ducks do?
Scary
By BubbaLooo
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 6:15am
I really hope this person recovers. It's scary how often I see scooters almost get hit on River Street. The kids, kids to me anyway, next door are always out on the scooters and they fail to realize how careful they need to be on congested streets.
accident
By Nick Yudin
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 8:45am
The brand or type of scooter is unimportant.
What is important is the health of its driver.
I hope the driver is ok!
What is ‘Hoodline’ and why
By Frelmont
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 3:59pm
What is ‘Hoodline’ and why did they use the term “altercation?” And, why did they say vehicle 1 hit vehicle 2 when no details were provided?
https://hoodline.com/2024/10/serious-scooter-suv-c...
That article is written by AI
By Zhu Hengpeng
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 2:29am
That article is written by AI.
Yup, it's right there in the footer
By Tim Mc.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 7:27am
https://hoodline.com/disclaimer/ -- they use AI for "organizing information and aiding in the initial formatting of stories for the editorial phase", which actually means "AI writes the stories and then an editor gives it a quick eyeball, maybe".
So it's just making shit up, lightly inspired by real news.
Thanks. AI with loaded words
By Frelmont
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 6:52pm
Thanks. AI that chose loaded words imparting cant.
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