pedestrian

More than 7,000 people were killed nationwide in 2021.

A Rhode Island man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was hit by a pickup truck on the northbound side of Interstate 495 Tuesday morning in Andover, Massachusetts. State police troopers found the victim on the roadway just before 1:30 a.m. in the left lane at the Route 28 ramp complex. He was taken to Lawrence General…

A 58-year-old man died after being hit by a car Friday morning in Quincy, Massachusetts. The driver, a 32-year-old Quincy woman, stayed at the scene and is cooperating with police. The victim, identified by Quincy police as Donald Bowes, was struck on Newport Avenue just after 4 a.m., police said. Newport Avenue was closed from Holbrook Road to the West…

In Portland, Maine, the first part of a plan to close well-known cobblestone streets to through traffic is approved and has funding. At a meeting almost two weeks ago, the Portland City Council voted to stop allowing most drivers to travel down Wharf Street, Dana Street and a section of Milk Street. Ideas to make these streets more pedestrian-friendly had…

A pandemic change has been made permanent in the Old Port section of Portland.

The world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge has opened in Portugal.

A man was struck by a car in a fatal hit-and-run crash Tuesday morning on Route 93 southbound in Braintree, authorities said.

A 42-year-old Boston man died after being hit by a car on Interstate 93 southbound Tuesday morning, according to the Massachusetts State Police. The driver drove away. The fatal hit-and-run crash happened around 4:25 a.m. near Exit 6 in Braintree, authorities said. The man walked onto the southbound lanes and was struck in the vicinity of the second and third…

Two people, including a child, were injured when they were struck by a vehicle in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood on Wednesday morning. Boston police said the accident happened around 9:55 a.m. Two pedestrians were struck on Melville Avenue. One of them was a child. Both people suffered what police said were believed to be non-life-threatening injuries. The driver remained at...

A child and an adult were injured when they were hit by a vehicle at an intersection in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday afternoon. The accident occurred around 2:30 p.m. at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street, according to Boston police. An adult and a child were struck and transported to a local hospital. Their injuries are not believed…

A man who allegedly hit a 60-year-old woman at a crosswalk in South Boston and took off two weeks ago was arrested Tuesday, police announced. John Murphy, a 64-year-old from Dorchester, faces seven charges in the Dec. 2 hit-and-run, including leaving the scene of a crash that caused serious bodily injury and operating while texting, a Massachusetts State Police spokesman…

In less than 10 hours, three people were killed in separate car crashes in Massachusetts’ Worcester County, according to the district attorney’s office. Worcester police said one of the crashes led to the death of a 66-year-old male pedestrian. That incident happened at 4:51 p.m. Tuesday in the area of 229 Park Ave. Investigators said it appeared the driver did...

A 25-year-old man was reportedly killed following a pedestrian crash involving a police cruiser overnight in Warwick, Rhode Island. WJAR reprots police responded to a call of a pedestrian crash at about 11:30 p.m. Monday in the area of 2783 West Shore Road.

A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries Monday after they were hit by a car in Boston’s South End neighborhood. Police said they are investigating the hit-and-run after it happened near Washington and Thorndike Streets.

Police are seeking information after a hit-and-run driver plowed into four children in Stoneham, Massachusetts Sunday evening, sending two of them to the hospital. Surveillance footage shows a group of young children standing in a driveway in Massachusetts when a car suddenly speeds toward them, striking the group and knocking them to the ground. In the last split seconds when...

A pedestrian was hit and killed by a Commuter Rail train in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

A man in his 50s was killed overnight when he was hit by an MBTA Commuter Rail train in Chelsea, Massachusetts, according to transit police. Authorities said they received a call at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday of a person who was possibly hit by a train near Everett and Maple Streets.

Much remains unknown about what caused a woman to jump out of a moving Uber in Boston’s O’Neill Tunnel on Monday morning, causing her to be struck by another vehicle. Massachusetts State Police have released only a limited amount of information, and have yet to say why they think the woman decided to get out of the moving vehicle in...

Much remains unknown about what caused a woman to jump out of a moving Uber in Boston’s O’Neill Tunnel on Monday morning, causing her to be struck by another vehicle. Massachusetts State Police have released only a limited amount of information, and have yet to say why they think the woman decided to get out of the moving vehicle in...