An unidentified 18-year-old was injured and 21-year-old Richard Allen was killed on an MBTA bus on November 2, 2010, the Boston Globe reported. Both were stabbed as the bus traveled down Humboldt Avenue near William Monroe Trotter elementary school. A police spokesperson told the Globe that both Allen and the…
The Readville neighborhood residents whose homes were damaged from Wednesday’s explosion on Danny Road are now assessing damage, according to the Boston Globe. Dozens of windows were shattered and one homeowner believes that her house was moved from its foundation. After the explosion, 40 homes had to be evacuated. According…
Nearly two years after Lieutenant Kevin M. Kelly died from injuries he sustained when Boston Fire Department Ladder 26 sped down Parker Hill Avenue in Mission Hill before crashed through a brick wall and into a building, his family is suing six companies for Suffolk County wrongful death. The defendants…
Happy Halloween! With more children than normal likely to be wandering through the residential streets of Boston after dark tonight, there are steps that motorists can take to avoid striking a young ghoul or witch walking on the road, including: • Don’t pass stopped vehicles. There may be a young…
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association warns that sick elderly patients that are hospitalized with sepsis have a higher chance of developing serious cognitive issues and suffer from abnormal physical decline during later years. The researchers that conducted the study also determined that sepsis…
In Boston, jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the Massachusetts wrongful death lawsuit over a catastrophic 2007 Brockton bus crash that claimed the life of a disabled pedestrian. The defendants are bus driver Tracy A. Lopes and bus company First Student Inc. Lopes, a Raynham resident, had been…
With car crashes as the leading cause of teenager deaths, this week has been designated “National Teen Driver Safety Week.” The theme for this year is distracted driving, which is no surprise considering that teen drivers are the ones at highest risk of becoming involved in a distracted driving-related accident.…
A serious single-car crash in Peabody late Friday caused injury to three people. All three Massachusetts car crash victims were rushed to a Boston hospital. The Peabody car accident happened when the vehicle crashed into a pole. The driver, who is a Nahant resident, and two of his passengers had…
With autumn underway and the winter driving season approaching, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reminding the drivers of 15-passenger vans to take certain steps to protect the occupants in their vehicles from getting hurt. 15-passenger vans are known to have a higher rollover rate than most other autos.…
About 40,000 to 80,000 hospitalized patients are killed each year because of diagnostics mistakes (such as delayed diagnosis, wrong diagnosis, and misdiagnosis)-considered the number one cause of medical malpractice lawsuits. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on this issue, as well as the fact that doctors and other medical professionals…