Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was inside a police automobile that collided with one other automobile on Tuesday, officers stated.
The two-car crash occurred on Hyde Park Avenue, a spokesperson for the Boston Police Department stated.
“We can confirm the mayor was a passenger in a vehicular crash earlier today,” a Wu spokesperson stated in a press release Tuesday evening. “Thankfully nobody sustained any main accidents.
“The Boston Police Department will conduct an investigation of the incident as they do with all crashes involving departmental motor vehicles.”
The BPD spokesperson described accidents sustained within the crash as “non-life-threatening,” however couldn’t converse to the mayor’s situation, because the incident report had not but been accomplished.
A video obtained by Fox25 exhibits the police automobile driving the mayor was flashing its blue emergency lights when it was T-boned by an oncoming automobile that had a inexperienced gentle touring in the wrong way.
The footage signifies that the unmarked cruiser Wu was touring in went by a purple gentle to make a flip into oncoming site visitors.
This video additionally exhibits that one other oncoming automobile within the subsequent lane over got here to a cease for the mayor’s automobile because it was making a flip by the intersection.
The explanation for the crash is beneath investigation, the BPD spokesperson stated.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”