Standoff scene around 7:30 a.m. Photo by State Police.
State and Wakefield Police shut Rte. 128 in Wakefield - and ordered Wakefield, Stoneham and Reading residents to shelter in place - after they say a check on two cars in the northbound breakdown lane near Parker Street turned into a standoff between law enforcement and heavily armed members of a Black sovereign-citizen group early this morning. Read more.
State Police report arresting a Boston man they say tried beating up a trooper who had stopped him for speeding on Rte. 24 in Randolph early Saturday, in an attack that included him reaching for the trooper's gun and pushing him into the middle of the road, after first punching him in the head. Read more.
State Police report having to shut Rte. 128 southbound in Danvers this afternoon after the rear of a truck somehow smashed into the Endicott Street overpass, destroying the truck and sending the driver to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
MassDOT inspectors were called to the scene to make sure the overpass was not compromised by the crash.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He objected to local police and state troopers telling him he made a mistake.
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.
Kim C. spotted the aftermath of a bad crash on I-95 north in Canton this morning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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