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Driver hits, drags pedestrian down Brighton Avenue in Allston, then drives away
By adamg on Tue, 06/09/2020 - 10:06pm
Sean Olsen reports that a driver hit and dragged a pedestrian down Brighton Avenue inbound just before Packards Corner. The pedestrian suffered major head trauma and the police homicide unit was called in due the severity of the bicyclist's injuries. Around 7:30 p.m.
WCVB reports that although it initially appeared a bicyclist had been hit, the bicycle belonged to somebody who stopped to help
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Through all of the craziness
Through all of the craziness of the last few months one thing has remained constant: drivers are the worst thing about Boston. Find this homicidal piece of garbage and jail them for life.
WCVB reports this entirely differently
WCVB's story says that "Initially, the victim was reported as a bicyclist, but police said that person had stopped to help."
Who's right?
Correction
I think it is clear that the victim was initially reported as a bicyclist, and this is specifically stating this part of initial reports is wrong.
I've updated the post
With the corrected info from WCVB.
Just two hours ago...
I was walking along Brighton Avenue about 6:30 this morning, near the intersection of Cambridge Street (i.e. not far from where that bicylist was dragged). There's a red-painted traffic lane clearly marked (in huge letters designed to be readable by drivers) as being for bicycles and buses only. And I noticed a car driving in that lane, even though the road was almost deserted at that hour, and he could easily have driven in the left lane -- in fact there were no other cars on that street at all. Why was he driving in the bicycle lane?
People suck.
This is why
our local restaurants will never get streets closed off to expand sidewalk seating - our local drivers are just too important and in too big a hurry to bother with stopping for, or even avoiding, human beings
Waltham
It's not local enough? It's inside 128!
Not exactly
The people who make decisions about traffic and public transportation primarily drive themselves so they can't comprehend anything else. Alternatives to putting private vehicles first just seem unrealistic to them.
What I find odd
These same people will expect pedestrians to take ten minutes to make a crossing in three sections, yet they can't seem to even conceive of having to drive two extra blocks or take an alternate route.
OK this sounds bad
OK, this sounds bad, but let's wait until the facts are in. The guy was probably in a hurry. And besides, I saw a bicyclist run a red light one time.
/s
It wasn't a cyclist that was
It wasn't a cyclist that was hit per the WCVB report linked in the comments above. A cyclist stopped to help the victim of the hit and run. Please read.
Yeah, well, I saw a
Yeah, well, I saw a pedestrian jaywalk one time. Plenty of blame to go around here. He might have had a perfectly legitimate reason for dragging the guy down the street and taking off, like, maybe he was reading a text and didn't see the guy, or maybe he had a suspended license and didn't want to get arrested. People have places to go, you know, not everybody has the time to stop their car and wait around for the cops to show up just because they critically wounded some total stranger.
/s
Scratchie, your lack of
Scratchie, your lack of compassion for the victim of the hit and run is pathetic. I guess people being hit by cars amuses you... your back-slash snark crap is a joke. Wake up to yourself: life isn't a hashtag or a facebook meme.
Thank you to the kind cyclist who stopped to check on the hit and run victim.
did you not notice the giant
did you not notice the giant “/s” at the end?
that is universal for “sarcasm,” or “sarcastic post.”
And how many cars run through
And how many cars run through red lights daily? Some intersections are safer for a cyclist to travel through before the light changes...
Domestic incidence
Police are saying this is a domestic incident.