87-year-old Driver Goes Through Guardrail, Into Water

Last Thursday morning, an 87-year-old unidentified woman sped through a guardrail and landed in a West Roxbury creek, which leads to the Charles River.

The woman was conscious following the 11:00am accident and was transported immediately to an area hospital for back pain.

It was reported that she was driving over 40 miles per hour when she hit the guardrail and ended up in the water. This took place at the Toyota Prime Motor Group dealership, where she was involved in another incident just prior to the run-in with the creek.

The facilities manager for the dealership, Joe Rose, stated that her car was hit by a black sedan in the dealership’s parking lot. Both cars had stopped at that point and the black sedan started to back up. The 87-year-old’s engine then revved loudly and accelerated quickly ahead as it sped through the lot, hitting many of the used cars in the dealer’s parking lot, before it hit the guardrail and descended towards the water. Once she was in the creek, the level of the water nearly covered the woman’s tires.

The driver of the black sedan was uninjured from the accident.

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Senior Driver Charged in Fatal Westport Crash

A 77-year-old Dartmouth woman, Alice Pfeninger, will be charged in connection with the Tuesday car accident which claimed the life of Lillian Bono, 86, New Bedford.

The fatal auto accident happened near 681 Old County Road in Westport, MA and involved 2 cars, a Subaru and a Volvo, which collided head on.

Westford police and firefighters responded to the crash and used a mechanical device to extricate the victims from their vehicles.

Herald News reports that Bono died at Charlton memorial Hospital in Fall River.

Police found that Pfeninger's Subaru headed east on Old County Road came into the path of Bono’s Volvo going in the opposite direction.

There were no skid marks on the road.

Senior Driver Crashes into Newton Deli

A 77 year-old driver from Framingham, Mass. crashed his car into a Newton deli and struck a woman inside the building.

According to news reports, the car first jumped the curb, and crashed inside the deli injuring one woman who was reading a menu inside Barry's Village Deli.

The woman was transported to Newton Wellesley Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. The senior driver was also injured and was transported to the same hospital.

It wasn't clear what caused the crash.