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A child was airlifted after being hurt in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday in Acton, Massachusetts. Police said the crash happened on Great Road. Officers responded around 6:15 p.m. to find the victim, believed to be 13, suffering from serious injuries. The victim, who was in the crosswalk at the time of the crash, was taken by ambulance to a field…

The driver stopped and called 911 right away, according to Massachusetts State Police.

A man walking across Interstate 93 in Boston was struck and killed by an SUV Saturday night, police said. The crash took place about 9:40 p.m. near the South Bay shopping center, around exit 15, according to Massachusetts State Police. According to an initial investigation, it appears the man had crossed the southbound lanes and the median. When he entered…

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…

Donald Bowes, a longtime employee at Fenway Park, was hit and killed by a car while crossing the street in Quincy Friday. It is the latest in several serious pedestrian crashed in the Boston area in recent weeks.

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…