Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara was due in court docket this morning in connection to a June crash that left her son injured and a house in Jamaica Plain broken.
A lawyer for Lara entered a not responsible plea on her behalf to site visitors expenses stemming from the crash at a listening to in July after a police report mentioned she was rushing down Centre Street, crashed right into a home, and endangered her son by not placing him in a automotive seat.
Lara beforehand mentioned she was dedicated to seeing the authorized course of by means of.
“I have faith and trust in the court process and I will continue to go through it as is required of me,” Lara mentioned after her arraignment. “My commitment right now and my focus is continuing to represent my constituents in District Six and making sure that I’m representing them in the best way that I can.”
Lara is scheduled for a pretrial listening to in West Roxbury Municipal Court, based on the court docket’s schedule. She is represented by Attorney Carl Williams.
A decide ordered Lara to not drive a car with no legitimate driver’s license whereas her case performs out in court docket.
She faces a number of expenses together with negligent operation of a motorcar, rushing, driving with a suspended license, and never inserting a baby beneath 8 years previous and beneath 58 inches in a automotive seat, amongst others.
A Boston police report mentioned Lara was driving an uninsured, unregistered automotive that belonged to Somerville resident Thomas Owens on the time of the crash. She was working the car with a revoked license when police say she was driving at the very least 53 miles per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour zone.
The councilor mentioned she crashed into the Jamaica Plain home to keep away from a parked automotive that began to tug away from the curb, based on a police report. Lara instructed police that she swerved to keep away from the automotive and “could not hit the brakes fast enough before colliding with the home,” based on the police report.
But the driving force of the opposite automotive mentioned he had barely moved out of the parking spot alongside the curb and was barely in movement “when he noticed a car driving down the street from behind him at a high rate of speed,” the police report mentioned.
“[The driver] stated he did not pull away from the curb due to the high rate of speed that vehicle #1 was traveling in his direction,” the police report mentioned. “… He emphasized that he was not close to hitting the car and believed that the other driver was speeding. He confirmed that the other vehicle had not damaged or touched his vehicle.”
Previous Boston Herald reporting was used on this report. This is a creating story.
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