Stop on the side of Rt. 116 near the Massachusetts Avenue/North Hadley Road overpass on any but the worst-weather day of the school year and watch how many athletes run in small packs from campus down Mass. Ave./North Hadley Road, and then onto Roosevelt Street. I'll bet Erinn Deborah Larkin knows this, but I don't think anyone's ever asked her about it. Why has no one ever asked her about this?
So, Maura was more than just slightly familiar with the intersection. She had run through it on foot many times and probably driven through it at least a few times, too; otherwise, she would not have taken that route at that hour. She knew exactly where the stop line was. She was not deceived by the placement of the flashing red light and guardrail. No way.
IIRC, according to Renner, the Hadley responding officer, Mark Ruddock, and/or the Hadley Police Department have said Maura might have been later cited for something called "inattention," which is another way of saying distracted driving. But if she was distracted because she was on a cell phone, whose was it?
Not that it matters much now, but if Maura had later contested prosecution for the Vasi hit, then an earlier citation or conviction for driving while distracted at the Corolla crash would almost certainly have buoyed the Commonwealth's case. But who the heck would be thinking thoughts like this anyway?
Not that it matters much now, but if Maura had later contested prosecution for the Vasi hit, then an earlier citation or conviction for driving while distracted at the Corolla crash would almost certainly have buoyed the Commonwealth's case. But who the heck would be thinking thoughts like this anyway?
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