Updated, Sunday, 12 p.m.
Two Brookline residents walking down Beacon Street in the Back Bay died when a driver ran a red light at Fairfield Street around 9:15 p.m., got into a crash with two other vehicles, rolled over, then hit them, according to WCVB and Boston Police.
John Lanzillotti, 28, of Brookline, who worked for the Red Sox, was declared dead at the scene. Jessica Campbell, 27, his girlfriend, was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she died.
Campbell, who described herself as a "retail analyst, social media geek, animal lover, yogi wannabe" on her Twitter feed, posted her last tweet about 45 minutes before the crash - a photo of yesterday's sunset over the Charles.
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You are wrong. Plain and simple.
By Kaz
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 3:29pm
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-...
Unless we're going to put in 100 lanes on every road, traffic will always succeed to the level the road can sustain. Make it bigger and it fills with more drivers. Make it smaller and people find other ways to get around.
If you continue to push your pro-car crap here, then at least argue from studied fact and not your emotional desire for better car access everywhere in the city or your gut feeling on how things would be if we only catered to driving more. I hope people will consider your "car driving needs help" posts to be trolling and simply not respond soon enough. Hopefully they will realize your nonsense has been asked and answered and we can stop feeding you responses to show time and again that not only are your points disproven already but your insensitivity to tie it into the most tangential posts...like 2 pedestrians dying from an SUV rollover accident...is unwelcome too.
I really don't think
By JCK
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 4:13pm
I really don't think congestion was an issue in this crash. This happened pretty late at night, and traffic (absent special events) in Boston at night is pretty tame.
The bigger issues here are the poor design of roads (for all users), badly signaled lights (both for drivers and pedestrians), and zero traffic enforcement (speeding, running red lights, double parking).
Thumbs down
By gregl
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 3:43pm
This site needs a thumbs down button.
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By Elmer
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 4:39pm
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It's the opposite problem on Beacon Street.
By Irmo
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 2:15pm
You see this kind of aggressive driving because it's a one way street that's wide and looks open to flooring it. But, then you're on the left lane because you want to turn a block from now and DAMMIT, some fucker is scanning for a parking space or trying to double park. So you swing around him aggressively, and then make that turn aggressively.
If Beacon was two-way, the prevailing speeds would be lower and the aggression inspired by obstructions would eb a lot lower. There's a reason you don't see this kind of behavior on Mass Ave.
Red Sox comment
By adamg
Sun, 06/22/2014 - 10:16pm
Red Sox organization mourns the loss of Jack Lanzillotti.
no respect anymoreanymore
By SybilGirl
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 6:32am
Speed and running a red light now 2 innocent people are dead! Unacceptable! Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law! No mercy!
Yeah, maybe they'll throw the
By Scratchie
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 9:15am
Yeah, maybe they'll throw the book at him and suspend his license for six months.
Time the lights to enforce the speed limit
By issacg
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 12:03pm
The Back Bay is one of the only parts of the city with a bona fide grid layout. As a result, it should be easy to time the lights on at least Beacon, Comm., Newbury and Boylston to allow traffic to flow at the speed limit. If you go faster, you get caught at all of the lights. Drivers would learn this very quickly.
I'm sure some of our road engineers can cite other examples, but the one that comes to mind is on U.S. 202 in Holyoke between I-91 and the bridge over the Connecticut River. It works beautifully, and as a driver, I love it because there is no starting and stopping unnecessarily (and as an extra bonus, it eliminates any urge to go a bit faster so as to get through a stale green).
What an absolutely terrible unnecessary tragedy. Our condolences to two grieving families and many friends.
I could be wrong, but I
By Rob Not Verified
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 3:11pm
I could be wrong, but I believe the lights are already timed to do exactly this on Comm Ave and Beacon in the Back Bay. But that doesn't prevent people from flying through the red lights anyway. A particularly dangerous spot is the corner of Comm Ave and Arlington right in front of the Public Garden - people fly through that red and go right onto Arlington all day every day.
It's right on red
By Scratchie
Mon, 06/23/2014 - 3:21pm
That means you don't have to stop or slow down, right?
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