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Rte. 128

By adamg - 4/11/20 - 4:12 pm
Flaming car on 128

Roving UHub photographer Angel Nunez captured the action on Rte. 128 northbound near the Rte. 109 exit shortly after 2:30 p.m., reports the driver seemed to have gotten out OK.

By adamg - 3/3/20 - 3:39 pm
Remains of a vehicle removed from car carrier in Peabody

Photo by State Police.

State Police report the driver of a car carrier somehow managed to clip the undersides of the Endicott Street and Rte. 114 overpasses on 128 south in Peabody this morning, destroying what used to be a 2020 Chevy Trax.

By adamg - 7/18/19 - 9:14 am
Dog sitting on back of platform truck

At a 128 offramp. Photo by KMV.

WCVB reports the owner of a tow company has fired the driver reported by several motorists to State Police for driving down Rte. 128 southbound in Waltham with a dog chained on the back platform of his flatbed truck. The dog was not injured.

By adamg - 7/10/19 - 1:56 pm

WHDH reports the ramp from 128 to Rte. 3 in Burlington was shut after a Local Motion bus on 128 north burst into fire shortly before 1 p.m. No injuries reported.

By adamg - 6/7/19 - 10:06 am

State Police report a Dorchester man and a female teen racing another car on 128 north in Westwood suffered serious injuries when they were ejected from their Hyundai Elantra after crashing into a third car around 5 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 4/13/19 - 1:58 pm
Cars smashed up on ramp to I-93

Aftermath of a crash.

UPDATE: Go into the comments for a description of the three-car crash by the daughter of the occupants of one of the cars.

Drew drove past another crash near our circumferential highway today, this time on the ramp to 128 from Rte. 24: Read more.

By adamg - 4/13/19 - 12:02 pm
Flipped car on 95

Kim C. spotted the aftermath of a bad crash on I-95 north in Canton this morning.

By adamg - 4/1/19 - 7:47 pm

State Police report charging both women in that Rte. 128 incident on Friday that made the national news. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/19 - 9:21 am
Smashed truck on Rte. 128 in Newton

The Weston Fire Department reports firefighters had to use the Jaws of Life to remove a truck driver from what was left of his vehicle near the Grove Street exit on 128 northbound in Newton early this morning.

Firefighters from Newton, Wellesley and Weston responded to the crash, which tied up traffic on the road.

By adamg - 9/28/18 - 9:16 am

State Police report they are investigating a fatal crash around 3:45 a.m. on 128 north just past the Lexington service area - including trying to determine the identity of the man who died and what he was doing walking on the highway. Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/18 - 12:09 pm
Flaming car on Rte. 128

Roving UHub photographer Mark Stephens reports the firetrucks were just pulling up after he took this photo on Rte. 128 southbound around 11:55 a.m.

By adamg - 6/25/18 - 8:41 am
Rollover on ramp from 128 north to the Massachusetts turnpike

Rick Macomber shows us the scene on the ramp from 128 north to the turnpike, where a tractor trailer rolled over before 5 a.m. and kept the ramp shut until around 8:15. State Police report the driver suffered minor injuries.

Same place, different truck in May.

By adamg - 6/21/18 - 8:48 am
Flipped car on 128

KC reports a car flipped over on Rte. 128 south just befo Rte. 9 around 8 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 5/17/18 - 9:02 am
Rolled over refrigerator truck on ramp from Massachusetts Turnpike to I-95

State Police report an early-morning rollover by a tractor trailer hauling frozen food shut the ramps from the turnpike to 128 and the ramp from 128 north to the turnpike. The vehicle was righted and moved out shortly before 7 a.m.

By adamg - 4/14/18 - 10:06 am
Never used portion of I-95 in Canton

It's 5:30 p.m. on a weekday on 95 south - where are all the cars?

By now, the story of why I-95 doesn't go straight through Boston is well known: Bands of determined residents helped convinced Gov. Francis Sargent we really didn't need a couple of superhighways rammed through Boston, Brookline, Cambridge and Somerville - I-95 and the I-695 "inner belt." Read more.

By adamg - 10/26/17 - 9:01 am

The Herald reports state Sen. Thomas McGee of Lynn has filed a bill to add tolls to I-93 in Boston, 128/95, Rte. 1 from Dedham to Peabody and Rte. 2 between 128 and Alewife - with the tolls going to transportation maintenance, including on the T.

S.1959 - the bill in question.

By adamg - 10/24/17 - 12:20 pm

A flaming garbage truck turned 128 north near the turnpike into a parking lot, Antoinette Antonio reports.

By adamg - 6/24/17 - 12:35 am

State Police report a Roslindale man whose engine was overheating as he drove south on 128 near Highland Avenue around 10 p.m. on Friday pulled into the breakdown lane and got out of the car - only to be hit by another vehicle, the driver of which then just kept on going. Read more.

By adamg - 6/13/17 - 9:15 pm

Shortly before 7:30 p.m., JMac reported that a truck was driving up Rte. 128 by Rte. 3 and the Burlington Mall "dropping beer kegs all over it." He adds: Read more.

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