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Firefighters used a metal-cutting tool to remove the roof of a car and free the driver after a collision on Route 5 north Tuesday sent two people to the hospital and closed the busy road to traffic for a while, officials said.
A father of three has been killed in a car crash in the city.
Police say 42-year-old Morris Webb was injured when another vehicle ran a red light at about 1:15 a.m. Saturday and struck Webb’s car as he drove on Legion Parkway. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police Monday night charged a 54-year-old Deerfield man with driving while intoxicated – his fourth offense – following an accident Monday night on Route 2A at River Street that left a pregnant woman with a fractured arm and other injuries, police said.
A 61-year-old woman and an 8-year-old girl were struck on a sidewalk by a vehicle involved in a three-car crash on Monday afternoon in Roxbury near Boston police headquarters, officials said.
The two were hit at about 3:45 p.m. near Tremont and Prentiss streets, police said.
Officer Juan Taveras was off duty when he crashed into a tree near the corner of Maple and Union streets on Monday night, said Sgt. John Delaney, spokesman for Springfield police Commissioner William Fitchet.
One of two people injured in a Sunday night car crash was in critical condition Monday morning at Baystate Medical Center, said Springfield police Officer Robert Kalin, the department's lead traffic-fatality investigator.
Two people died in an early morning crash.
The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. on Harrison Boulevard.
A Quabbin Regional High School senior died and another Quabbin senior was seriously injured when their car veered off Old Turnpike Road and struck a tree early Sunday morning.
A 55-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car as she crossed Boston Road near Five Mile Pond just before 1 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
She was taken by ambulance to Baystate Medical Center where she was pronounced dead, said an aide to the Police Commissioner.
The first car of an MBTA Green Line train crashed into the tunnel wall after derailing just west of Kenmore Station this afternoon. Seven people suffered minor injuries, and the tracks in the area are to be closed for the rest of the day, authorities said.
