Boston truck crash: Rental vehicle mounts sidewalk and takes out multiple pedestrians

The Mirror ^ | 4/1/25 | Tim Hanlon

[DallasBiff]

At least six people have been injured after a lorry drove onto a pavement and crashed into a building in Boston.

Four people were rushed to the hospital and one is in critical condition, according to local reports. Emergency services raced to the scene where pedestrians were left lying on the street in Chinatown. "It was a bad accident, and hopefully those two people make it," reportedly said Boston Deputy Fire Chief Steven Shaffer.

[DallasBiff]

Jihadi or an illegal that doesn't know how to drive who is trying to leave the country?

We'll never know, in Michelle Wu's Boston.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Gotta ban those rental assault vehicles. This one almost killed the driver.

[Obadiah]

Everyone is welcome in Michelle Wu’s Boston.

[chuckb87]

Everyone is welcome “in Michelle Wu’s Boston.”

Except White people.

[Jonty30]

I’m guessing cell phone use just prior to the crash.

[rottweiller_inc]

“I’m guessing cell phone use just prior to the crash.”

Yeah. Or just dumbness. Many people who rent a truck don’t know how to drive it.

[Mouton]

Forget it Jake, its Chinatown.

[DesertRhino]

Chinatown? Could have been an oriental female driving.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Driving while Asian.

[dljordan]

“It was a bad ‘’’accident’’’’.

[sport]

It was an “on purpose.” But nothing will come from it as long as the right people were killed or injured. The right people? Whites, Caucasians.

[GingisK]

Sometimes it is very difficult to determine where the street ends and the sidewalk begins in certain places in Boston.

[The_Media_never_lie]

We may never know why….

[BipolarBob]

Chinatown? Could have been an oriental female driving.

Yes, likely an ornamental female driving.

[Rummyfan]

Chinatown? Could have been an oriental female driving.

Maybe Mayor Michelle Wu herself?!

[Sirius Lee]

Maybe Mayor Michelle Wu herself?!

Probably. Asian chicks are the very worst drivers on the planet. Or any planet.

[libertylover]

At least six people have been injured after a lorry drove onto a pavement and crashed into a building in Boston. ... Four people were rushed to the hospital

Don't know how many are familiar with British terminology vs. American terminology but I find it interesting that The Mirror used the British term, "lorry", instead of the American term, "truck", but then uses the American phrase, "to the hospital", instead of the British phrasing of "to hospital".

[9422WMR]

That was a busy truck if it had time to plow over the pedestrians while it was mounting the sidewalk. Something you just have to see!!/S

[dragnet2]

Rental vehicle mounts sidewalk?

This suggest the vehicle somehow got up on the sidewalk on it’s own.

[ronnie raygun]

lorry jihad! another empty cab self driven into pedestrians, oh the humanity!