Crash site. Photo by Epic Stratton.
Updated.
A Quincy motorist plowed into a pedestrian crossing Massachusetts Avenue in front of the Orange Line station around 6 a.m., then just drove away, police say.
The victims remains in critical condition at a local hospital, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Lawrence Stead, 69, of Quincy, was arrested later in the morning in Quincy, after police traced the license-plate number of the gray, 1999 Mercury Marquis seen leaving the scene to his home.
Stead is scheduled for arraignment tomorrow in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of leaving the scene of a personal-injury accident, the DA's office reports.
WBZ reports Stead is a retired Cambridge cop.
Massachusetts Avenue was shut for much of the morning as police investigated the crash.
Innocent, etc.
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Tunnel (underpass) safety
By JennL
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 1:01pm
I mentioned the tunnel (but I said underpass) in an earlier comment. I think that police installed security cameras in the tunnel this year -- a plus for safety..
Mercury Grand marquis with an
By anon
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 12:15pm
Mercury Grand marquis with an old-number license plate?
Sounds like a retiree.
Used by an illegal alien
By Markk02474
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 12:48pm
Illegal aliens without a driving license or insurance coverage (name on policy?) are less likely to stick around after an accident. Consider the car was found in Quincy, illegal alien is quite possible.
Is there some game of Troll Bingo going on?
By Sally
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 2:15pm
Like--see how many pointless, irrelevant and offensive posts you can write in one day and you win a free Bic pen or something? You're topping yourself, Markk.
How do you know it was an
By Scratchie
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 2:21pm
How do you know it was an illegal alien? Maybe it was just some car-obsessed moron who deeply resents the law that gives pedestrians and cyclists access to public streets and thinks driving a metal box gives him the right to hit anything that dares get in his way.
Retired Cambridge cop
By Markk02474
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 4:50pm
Yup, those are indeed the people most likely to deeply resent f'ing hipsters and jay walkers! Good call.
Whooosh!!
By Scratchie
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 4:51pm
Whooosh!!
Whose the illegal space alien
By anon
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 2:18pm
You seem to lack humanity.
Geez Mark, you get around
By 02120
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 2:35pm
You shared the same insight (incite?) on the Herald's comment section 40 minutes before. Until the guilty party is found, perhaps you should keep your tinfoil Kreskin turban stowed.
This happened right outside my house
By Whatev
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 1:59pm
This happened right outside my house and I can tell you drivers blow through that red light ALL THE TIME. It's not a matter of them having already floored it after passing Huntington or Columbus - the light is as obvious as all the others on Mass Ave. They simply see the red light and THEY DON'T CARE. They don't get caught running red lights, they get away with it, so they do it. Some stop or slow down first, check to see nobody is crossing, and then drive on through - that's marginally better than not slowing down at all, but still idiotic because red means stop, period, no matter what. Until drivers get rid of their entitlement complexes and stop thinking laws don't apply to them, we'll have tragedies like this.
Not that it's an excuse, but
By anon
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 8:36pm
Not that it's an excuse, but how well synchronized are the lights? If you blow through this red, do you just get caught at the next red? Or do you make a green that you wouldn't make if you stopped at the crosswalk?
Looks like it wasn't an illegal alien
By Scratchie
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 3:13pm
http://bpdnews.com/news/2014/3/19/update-motor-veh...
Markkk, you can post your apology whenever you get a chance.
Apology
By Markk02474
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 4:22pm
I apologize to all the thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants driving illegally on the streets. Immigration status is just one of the reasons why someone would not stick around after an accident.
It was a retired Cambridge police officer alleged to have hit and run:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/03/19/driver-arres...
What are the odds he was OUI at 6am?
Weasely to the end Mr. Kaepplein?
By 02120
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 4:32pm
Your apology should contain "I was wrong to jump to my own paranoid delusions."
Bully to the end
By Markk02474
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 5:40pm
I'm somewhat flattered that you took the time and effort to identify me in your attempt to bully and intimidate from behind your keyboard. Cowardly actions like bullying work better on people who let fear run their lives, however. What's your name?
When people constantly whine
By Scratchie
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 6:04pm
When people constantly whine about people "bullying" them, is that a sign that they're letting "fear run their lives"?
Are you really sure?
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 7:15pm
Sure that people weren't cramming things down his throat again?
Wrong Much?
By Smedley
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 4:35pm
I guess Mark has trouble admitting when he's wrong...doncha feel kind of stupid re-reading your comments?
I'm pretty sure that Markkk
By Scratchie
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 6:05pm
I'm pretty sure that Markkk doesn't ever feel stupid, even when he's constantly shown to be wrong about everything.
Damned cyclists...
By MatthewC
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 8:26pm
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Well I am glad that discussion went well.
By nm
Wed, 03/19/2014 - 9:04pm
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