sad event

[georgy.livejournal.com]

in case you were wondering why no fewer than four news copters were hovering over winter hill/east somerville this afternoon, click here. some jerk driver ran over a teenager at assembly square and killed him.

Comments

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

The thing I find interesting about this story is that the victim is described as a teenager and the driver isn't, even though he was 18.

I would be very interested to see some statistics on pedestrian deaths in the Boston area, versus other metropolitan areas in the country and the world.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's because legally, an 18-year-old is an adult, and protocol says the driver should be described as "a man." If the victim was 17 or 16, he's still just a "teenager".