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Two-car crash leaves one flipped on its side, occupants trapped, at Comm and Harvard in Allston
By adamg on Mon, 09/09/2024 - 5:13pm
Flipped SUV and observant crowd watching first responders. Photo by Lipistickey.
Boston Police officers, firefighters and EMTs responded to Commonwealth and Harvard avenues for a crash that left an SUV flipped on its side in front of the Taco Bell Cantina around 3:30 p.m.
The crash left two people trapped in the flipped car until they could be extricated by firefighters. They remained conscious and alert.
The driver of the other vehicle remained on scene.
Boston and Brookline police shut Harvard Avenue and part of Commonwealth Avenue.
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(Insert snarky comment about how cars are evil).
People have been injured, nearly killed.
You see a chance to insert snarky comment about non existent comments you dearly hope someone will post.
What? Trapping pigeons and tying their feet together on the Common wasn’t entertaining enough for you this afternoon?
You don’t understand.
John once had to take the bus to the store because streets were closed for a neighborhood celebration. It’s an outrage and I wouldn’t be surprised if he made sure it went on someone’s permanent record.
Bus passengers have it much
Bus passengers have it much worse than drivers when a street used by a bus is closed.
Depends on the detour.
Everyone is detoured.
Drivers certainly make it even worse for everyone when there is a detour.
Glad you are safe
Otherwise we might have suspected that you were involved, somehow.
Hope you had a great summer, John!
Keep up the great contributions!
Maybe not cars, but this
Maybe not cars, but this intersection is a god awful mess, it's incredible how much surface area is devoted to cars and how little to the trains and people walking... The road is build like a race course, so sadly, no one is surprised when this happens (again), but we could change that... Half as many lanes, twice as many trains, for starters.
For those counting at home,
For those counting at home, it's six car lanes on Comm Ave (plus three separate rows of angle parking) intersecting three car lanes on Harvard. The carriage lane on the south side of Comm Ave is mostly useless, and I say that as someone who used to live right on it; it could be replaced by an entire row of new buildings between Packard's Corner and Allston St, or at least some grass. Either would be a huge improvement.
Don’t get me wrong-bikes are
Don’t get me wrong-bikes are nice, they’re fun, healthy and freeing, but cars built this country, they’re a product of our galaxy-given ingenuity and representative of the freedom that beats in our breasts.
Controversy?
Didn't the major car manufacturers buy rail transportation companies in the 1930s, then dismantle them so cars would have to be the prevalent form of travel? Plus, insurance companies wanted more business from car owners so fewer railways, street cars would lead to greater profits? Conspiracies don't need to be the covert actions of secret cabals, it could just be similar interests influencing business practices allowed due to lax reguations.
The Steetcar Conspiracy
There was indeed a conspiracy by General Motors, Firestone Rubber, and a major oil company (Standard?), to buy up local streetcar companies (which used to go everywhere in, for instance, eastern Mass), convert them to buses, and eventually dissolve them. I don't know that any other car manufacturers or any insurance companies were involved. This was not a fictional Alex-Jones- style conspiracy. There was a trial, and the companies were convicted. No meaningful punishment ever ensued, and lately, denial of the reality of the conspiracy seems to be ascendant.
I heard about that and read
I heard about that and read about that street car business. Plus didn’t they kill the electric car-twice? The first time in the (pre?) Model T era (before the dominance of the ICE and again in the latter half of the c. was it the first iteration of the Volt?
Um
You're talking about a fairly recent phenomenon. What was happening in the hundred-plus years of our country's history before cars existed, much less were ubiquitous?
I’m fairly sure that was
I’m fairly sure that was sarcasm
Yeah. Sure. Sarcasm see. That
Yeah. Sure. Sarcasm see. That’s it. That’s the ticket.
Nah. I’m usually in earnest. There’s plenty truth to go around on the topic. We’re all human beings.
Nope
No, there isn't. You get to have your own opinion; you don't get to have your own facts.
Ok. Fair. I’m talking about
Ok. Fair. I’m talking about the extent to which cars built the postwar era. (And, I’m glossing past the dividing of neighborhoods with interstates.) There is common ground. There are good ideas on the left and right that get stranded and demonized by mindless partisanship.
True.
True, but cars are now our “Jetson’s” speeders. They are the fruit of our ingenuity and freedoms. Perhaps some day- perhaps - where we’re going we won’t need roads, but ‘till then
You sound more and more like AI …
… everyday. Better check yourself. You might be a hologram.
Did both parties have
Did both parties have insurance?
Unsafe at any Speed
Are Sports Utility Vehicles the new Corvairs?
Hey!
You guys can't park there!!