Holyoke, Massachusetts motorists should be aware that the city is participating in a statewide “Click It or Ticket” campaign from May 2 through May 23. During this period, there will be increased enforcement of the state’s seat belt law in an effort to increase safety awareness. The state requires that all occupants of private passenger vehicles use a seat belt.
A 17-year-old boy in Massachusetts died in a car accident on April 30. The fatal crash took place in Adams and involved two vehicles. Police responded to the scene of the accident near the intersection of Staples Street and North Summer Street at around 5:15 p.m.
A Boston police officer confirmed that a 29-year-old woman died when a amphibious sightseeing vehicle, known as a duck boat, collided with her scooter on April 30. A male passenger on the scooter survived after being taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment of his injuries. The accident occurred downtown close to Boston Common. None of the 30 passengers on the tour boat reported injuries.
A student who was attending a Massachusetts university was killed in a single-vehicle car crash that occurred on April 23. According to authorities, the deceased student, a 19-year-old man from Vermont, was a student at Endicott College. A second man, age 20, suffered critical injuries.
A man in Massachusetts was killed after being involved in a two-car collision in Foxborough on April 18. The deceased victim, a 61-year-old man from Millis, was one of the drivers in the accident. Authorities reported the accident the day that it happened and then confirmed that one of the drivers had died the following day.
On April 9, a crash that occurred in Massachusetts left one person dead and three others injured. The accident took place at about 11 p.m. near the 500 block of Union Street in Weymouth.
Auto showrooms in Massachusetts are packed with vehicles containing all manner of sophisticated electronic equipment. While accident avoidance systems and other electronic safety features may be designed to save lives, equipment that informs or entertains drivers could actually make the nation’s roads more dangerous. The National Safety Council says that most American drivers assume that GPS, audio and communications features are perfectly safe to use while behind the wheel, and the nonprofit organization has decided to spend April trying to correct such misconceptions and remind motorists of the dangers of distracted driving.
As self-driving cars come closer to everyday reality for the people of Massachusetts, industries that depend upon the current state of affairs in the automotive industry are concerned that the future of autonomous transportation may leave them out. For example, the automobile insurance industry is looking at the extraordinarily low rates of injury and property damage accompanying self-driving cars and considering that they may not be able to survive in their current form.
A female graduate of Harvard has filed a lawsuit against the school in a Massachusetts federal court. She and her attorney maintain that college officials took no actions to protect her after repeated reports of sexual harassment from her ex-boyfriend and fellow undergraduate who is referred to as John Doe 1 in court papers.
According to a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, cars and trucks equipped with front crash prevention systems are significantly less likely to be involved in rear-end crashes. Further, the study says that if all vehicles in Massachusetts and across the U.S. had automatic-braking systems, there would have been around 700,000 fewer rear-end accidents reported to the police in 2013.
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