According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, repair professionals and vehicle owners should watch out for counterfeit air bags. Often used as a replacement part at independent repair stores, these imitation safety devices generally don’t work properly and in a Boston car crash will likely fail to provide a…
The reasons to ride a bike in Boston are endless. You can ride your bicycle for fun, to work, or for exercise. According to Radio Boston, “the greater Boston area is going through something of a bicycling renaissance.” With over 56 miles in new trails, it is no wonder that…
24-Year-old Kaisha Lynn Guerrini is dead following a North Attleboro car crash involving an alleged drunken driver. The young mother, who leaves behind a 3-year-old son, sustained fatal injuries when her vehicle was hit in a head-on crash on Route 152. The driver, 32-year-old Jason Kwolek, is accused of going…
In a motor vehicle crash that is making national headlines, a 100-year-old driver backed into 14 people on Wednesday when he accidentally reversed his car into a group that was waiting to cross the street close to a Los Angeles, CA school. 11 kids and three adults were hurt, with…
Richard Jeanetti, 35, was arraigned today in West Roxbury District Court and released on personal recognizance over charges stemming from a crash that occurred on the evening of May 24. Jeanetti is a Boston police officer but was off duty at the time of the accident. He is facing several…
4-Year-Old Cole Michael Kelly was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday after he was struck by a vehicle that crashed into his backyard where he was playing. The car’s driver, Pedro Roias, is his neighbor. The 64-year-old motorist has been arrested on drunk driving charges in the Dartmouth, Massachusetts motor…
18-year-old Aaron Deveau claims that he wasn’t texting while driving when his vehicle swerved over the center line to collide head-on with the auto driven by Donald Bowley in February 2011. The 55-year-old man sustained severe traumatic brain injuries and died more than two weeks after the crash. Bowley’s 58-year-old…
So we’re nearing the end of April and bike season is officially back. Motivated by the improving weather-what a glorious spring day today!-and by the athletic feats of Monday’s marathoners, the city is alive with bike riders with a variety of levels, intensities, and goals. But bikers, beware! Boston and…
According to a report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the state of Massachusetts had the lowest pediatric death rate among all the US states in 2009 at 4 child deaths per 100,000 kids (age 19 and under). The national average for that year was 11 deaths/…
According to the lawyer of a Pittsfield man charged with motor vehicle homicide while under the influence of drugs, driving to endanger causing serious bodily injury, and driving under the influence of alcohol, the deadly Massachusetts car accident that claimed the life of 25-year-old Michael F. Ashline may have actually…