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Bicyclist seriously injured in Marlborough crash
MARLBOROUGH A bicyclist suffered serious injuries Tuesday evening after being struck by a pickup truck while trying to cross the road near Mechanic and Lincoln streets, authorities said.
The 34-year-old man was flown to UMass-Memorial Medical Center in Worcester by a medical rescue helicopter after first being treated at a local hospital.
Neither Marlborough police nor the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office knew the man’s condition on Wednesday morning.
The man was trying to cross the street about 5:51 p.m., police spokesman Sgt. Zachary Attaway said Wednesday.
A GMC pickup truck driving northbound on Mechanic Street collided with the bicyclist. The pickup s driver stayed at the scene of the crash, Attaway said.
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Man dies after pickup truck crashes into brick wall in Massachusetts
Updated 12:31 PM;
A man in his 40s died Monday morning after crashing his pickup truck into a brick wall in Massachusetts, authorities said.
Lowell police responded to the fatal crash involving a white Dodge Ram on Gorham Street in the city, according to a joint statement from the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and the Lowell Police Department.
The man was driving the Dodge Ram inbound in the area of Gorham Street and the Lowell Connector when he crashed into the wall, the statement said.
He was taken to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The man, who was 42 years old, was the sole occupant and driver of the truck, authorities noted.
Years after a Cambridge 15-year-old died from being shoved to the ground in an apparent assault, a Boston man has pleaded guilty to the incident.
The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office announced in a news release Thursday that 19-year-old Isaias Plaza has been sentenced to two and half years in prison after pleading guilty last week to manslaughter in Richelle Robinson’s death in 2018.
Prosecutors said the young woman was walking to a friend’s house when Plaza pushed her around 6:30 p.m. on July 22, 2018.
Cambridge police responded to a report that the teen had been shoved to the ground on Cambridge Street around the 700 block, and when officers arrived on scene they said she was bleeding and unresponsive.