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Category: Crashes

  • Truck-bicycle collision in Amherst kills Newton resident

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    Another fatal turnng truck-bicycle collision, in Amherst, Massachusetts [archived]. The bicyclist, Livingston Pangburn, age 22, was a former student of my wife, who taught math at Newton (Massachusetts) North High School. This was a left cross collision. The cyclist was going downhill and the truck, uphill. I don’t know details of this particular crash, but…

  • You too can prevent fatal truck-bicycle collisions

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    I am sick at heart. Last December we lost Chris Weigl, graduate student in journalism at Boston University, a young man of great promise, killed when a semitrailer truck ran over him on Commonwealth Avenue near the BU campus. The green arrow approximates Weigl’s line of travel; the red arrow, the truck’s. (Also see larger…

  • Some thoughts about the Allston fatality

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    [Follow-up note: this was the Chris Weigl fatality, See news story [archived]. [Boston Globe video with photos] [Comments by a consultant] I have cycled and motored through the crash location many times, and I’ve seen the photos — the trucker was making a wide right turn, necessarily slowly. The cyclist was traveling downhill, fast according…

  • Analysis of last December’s fatal crash at MIT

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    The MIT student newspaper, The Tech, has obtained police reports about last December’s fatal bicycle-truck collision at Massachusetts Avenue and Vassar Street in Cambridge. I have reviewed the story in The Tech and the police reports, and posted my review on the Cambridge Civic Forum blog.

  • Fatality in Brighton

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    Regarding the recent fatal crash in Brighton: I understand that the cyclist was traveling down a rather steep hill on an arterial, Commonwealth Avenue, at speed, ran a red light and collided with a vehicle that was crossing on the green. Last I heard, it was unknown whether the cyclist ran the light intentionally, or…

  • Bicyclist falls under bus on Huntington Avenue, dies

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    Tragic occurrence. Unfortunately, neither article gives enough detail to say why this happened. But according to several commenter eyewitnesses on the Herald blog, the bicyclist got a wheel caught in the trolley tracks in the street. The bicyclist and bus were eastbound according to the Globe. I got an e-mail passing along information from the…