Pickup came from small parking lot behind brick wall. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports a pickup hit two adults, a child and two infants in strollers next to the municipal lot off Centre and Hastings streets around 11 a.m.
Based on the photo, it looks like the driver failed to brake while pulling into a spot in the parking lot - or hit the gas instead of the brake while pulling out of a spot - and went right through the brick wall that separates the lot from the sidewalk.
All five were transported to a local hospital, with injuries ranging from critical to minor, although none of the injuries appeared to be life threatening.
That intersection has been the scene of other vehicle/pedestrian crashes in recent years, including a 2019 crash in which a driver hindered by solar glare ran into a woman walking across the street, killing her, and a 2016 crash in which another pedestrian suffered a traumatic brain injury after being hit by a car.
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We don’t know how the driver was driving…
By Lee
Fri, 12/17/2021 - 8:15pm
… before this crash while on the road. Or if he was observed by police or reported through 911.
But I’ve seen BPL cruisers sit by while all sorts of dangerous behavior is occurring right before them.
How many times
By brianjdamico
Fri, 12/17/2021 - 2:50pm
have you seen the Mayor's motorcade?
Do tell
By lbb
Fri, 12/17/2021 - 5:23pm
Do tell all about your experience observing "state patrolled roads in the city" that you're not from.
Must be
By Manny
Fri, 12/17/2021 - 1:46pm
because of bikes
Color me not shocked. We
By anon
Fri, 12/17/2021 - 2:17pm
Color me not shocked. We take our lives into our hands crossing Centre St. All of the crosswalks & Holy Name rotary are a joke.
The BDPs plan of "we aren't going to ticket, we are going to educate" has worked really well. They were out on Centre street for about 2 minutes pretending to enforce traffic rules after that woman died. I almost got hit in the same crosswalk; a cop was too busy on his phone to do anything.
I hope the lazy asshats of WR that can't walk 100 feet to the store feel good about their plan to stop the bike commies.
The driving in West Roxbury
By BenHa
Sat, 12/18/2021 - 9:44am
The driving in West Roxbury is a toxic combination of callous tailgaters that go 50 mph on Centre St., folks whose best driving years are in the rearview, and people who double-park to pick up takeout.
Oh....and no police enforcement.
Edited: Center -> Centre.
Yep
By Parkwayne
Fri, 12/17/2021 - 5:26pm
I was getting take out from the restaurant row the other day and saw someone double park their car in the travel lane next to an empty parking spot. She presumably didn't want to bother wtih parallel parking.
Didn't want to bother
By perruptor
Sat, 12/18/2021 - 8:12am
Maybe because they never learned how. The Registry's enforcement of the requirement that all drivers learn to parallel park has been ... inconsistent.
Yah, maybe.
By BenHa
Sat, 12/18/2021 - 9:43am
Yah, maybe.
But the civic thing to do in that case would be to keep driving until you find a spot not requiring the maneuver.
Above anything else, this kind of behavior screams selfishness.
I see this all the time.
By Lee
Sat, 12/18/2021 - 8:15am
I think it’s either laziness or not wanting to get boxed in by another double parker or both.
Makes me want to key their cars as I try to maneuver around them.
It happened again!
By BenHa
Sat, 12/18/2021 - 9:50am
Driving down Centre this morning toward Weld, thinking about this thread and going about 30 mph, when a new Tesla SUV floors it to pass me in the left lane.
This just happened - in the bright of day and on a not-unpopulated stretch.
I realize that such antisocial, take-no-prisoners brazenness might not yield to police enforcement. And what are the chances that a cop would be so situated to catch this derelict in any case? Nonetheless, imagine the certainty that this driver had that he wouldn't be caught doing 80 on a main Boston drag.
Increase enforcement on the regular and you'd shift the distribution of driving behavior in the direction of good, reducing the number of outliers (aka, assholes driving Teslas on the wrong side of the road).
No disagreement; however...
By lbb
Fri, 12/17/2021 - 5:24pm
...this was in a parking lot and adjacent sidewalk. So, unless this was some insane kind of bad driving by osmosis, I don't think the terrible road design is to blame.
As in, the "broken rotaries"
By BenHa
Fri, 12/17/2021 - 5:32pm
As in, the "broken rotaries" theory of driving.
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