The crash in the Back Bay neighborhood happened Friday morning at around 7 a.m. and the victim died at Massachusetts General Hospital soon after, according to Boston’s CBS affiliate.
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An unidentified Boston woman was killed at a busy intersection Friday morning. The driver of the truck, an 18-wheel flatbed, may not have realized he hit the woman.
The crash happened just after 8 a.m. on the corner of Mass. Ave and Beacon Street. “We are checking everything we can”.
Police say the truck was an 18-wheeler with a front chrome section that is missing. They said they are not sure if the driver was aware that someone had been hit.
An employee at a nearby convenience store called 911 after finding the woman lying unresponsive in the road.
She was struck by a tractor-trailer unit pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with steel, said Boston Police Superintendent Bernard O’Rourke.
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Zach Cloyd, 31, who lives next door to the scene, said he stopped biking home from work because this particular intersection is risky. Then-Mayor Thomas Menino commissioned a study in 2013 that found the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon Street had the most bicycle collisions in the city between 2010 and 2012.
