QUINCY, MA — A teenage boy was taken to the hospital after a serious accident involving a taxi in Quincy, Massachusetts on Monday, February 23rd, 2015. News reports from the area said that the accident happened at about 3:00 Monday afternoon.
A 13-year-old boy was taken to the hospital after he was struck by a Quincy Checker Cab while he was walking along or trying to cross Berlin Street. Police said that the boy was struck on the side of the street.
Officials said the boy was taken to the hospital where he was being treated for serious injuries.
Quincy Police are still investigating.
Scene of the Accident
View of the Road
Commentary:
If the news report is accurate, and the boy was on the side of the street, then the taxi company is going to have to stare down a lot of tough questions about what happened. On top of that, the report said that the victim was just let out of school, and I’m really wondering if this accident happened in a school zone. School zones are naturally populated by a great deal of young pedestrian traffic, and if the driver used the street as a cut through as news reports hinted at, then I’d be curious to know how fast they were going on those snow covered roads. Something about the fact pattern in the news tells me that the taxi company is going to bear the liability in this accident, but I’d need to see a more complete fact-pattern to say for sure.
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