Update on Crash

[walkitout]

http://acton.patch.com/articles/19-year-old-male-chared-with-oui-in-prospect-street-accident

Yes: all the expected stereotypes apply.

RHI [ETA: R. asked me what RHI stands for and this may have contributed to the negative response by the abusive commenter. RHI = Rumor has it. I was repeating what I heard from someone who was at the plaza at the time of the accident, and who talked to other people who were at the plaza at the time of the accident. I don't know the people who told her this stuff, so I labeled it "rumor", altho I now understand RHI is not obviously "rumor" to every reader. My apologies. ] he walked away from the accident and the injury to the young woman involved a broken bone. Let's hope they all learned their lesson (something involving NOT speeding down a residential street -- hey, MY street -- in the dark and missing the curve).

However, googling "jacob victor acton ma" turned this up from a couple years ago:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/acton/news/police_and_fire/x276659401/Acton-police-logs-April-30-edition

"Jacob Ross Victor, 17, of 10 Heather Hill Road, Acton, was arrested April 24 and charged with disorderly conduct."

So I guess I wouldn't be too optimistic.

ETA (after the abusive commenter showed up):

(1) I pulled that quote from a public source and the public source is named above it.
(2) The person in question is _not_ a child (they are now 19 years old).

ETA Yet again:

Here's what Offical Journalism Types Say About Naming a Minor:

http://www.splc.org/knowyourrights/legalresearch.asp?id=107

ETA: STILL MORE!

File this under, oh, for *'s sake:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/acton/news/x313678869/Acton-police-logs-June-4-edition

"Jacob Ross Victor, 17, of 10 Heather Hill Road, Acton, was arrested May 25 and charged with shoplifting by concealing merchandise"

I didn't pull that off google; I went to wickedlocal and typed "Jacob Victor" into the search box. I'm going to quote something else from the site:

"The following are excerpts from the Acton public safety log for period May 25 through May 31. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty. If an individual listed is found not guilty, The Beacon will print that information here at the request of the individual and upon verification with the court or police."

Word to the wise.

ETA Jul 22 3:40 p.m. EDT:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/acton/thisjustin/x121487976/Police-charge-man-in-Acton-car-crash

Looks like the turn-around time for him at Emerson was pretty short. "Parisi said the accident remains under investigation." The article describes booking and arraignment.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Looks as though he didn't learn from his friends' mistakes, either: http://www.wickedlocal.com/acton/news/x1295942393#axzz1SnqkCGCK

didn't even occur to me to check a nickname

[walkitout]

Wow.

There might be some touchiness in town on the subject of telephone poles.

http://www.mydeathspace.com/article/2008/01/25/Juan_Casimiro_%2823%29_and_a_friend_were_killed_in_a_high_speed_accident

"The car then launched up a stone wall and went airborne over a driveway before slamming against a utility pole. ... The top portion of the pole was cracked in half on impact and pierced the passenger side of the car, which was on its side while the wires held the pole vertical."

That was over 3 years ago and involved a then 23 year old and then 18 year old.

The article ethelmay linked to refers to Danny McCarthy. The administration building on the school campus near where I live has "Danny's Place", which seems to be an extremely constructive response to the tragedy of McCarthy's death.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/acton/news/x668804965

I knew about "Danny's Place", since I've spent some time standing by the entrance to it while doing the pickup drill for my son. My primary interaction with the young people who make use of it was a single conversation with a young man which I've not-quite-regretted ever since. (The young man was telling his friends that some other young man wasn't at school because he claimed he'd broken his hand punching someone or something. The young man retelling the story was openly skeptical of this, and I intruded on their conversation to explain how this was a very common but avoidable injury in the circumstances described. I refrained from supplying detailed instruction on good form but suggested they could learn from a martial arts instructor, on the general principle that martial arts instructors who teach kids usually do a good job instilling respect in same. But I'm not sure I should even have brought any of it up.)

"Danny, 16, was the sole passenger in the last vehicle, driven by another Acton-Boxborough junior, Ian Dennis. Shortly after leaving the McCarthy house, Dennis sped up, attempting to pass his friends' cars. Dennis's Acura Integra spun out of control, nearly splitting in half as it collided with a tree on Pope Road.

McCarthy suffered head injuries and was pronounced dead shortly afterward at Emerson Hospital. Dennis was airlifted to Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he recovered from his injuries. Police determined that drugs and alcohol were not a factor in the accident, but that speed and inexperience were."

I suppose all of this supports the "ignorant" part of the "ignorant ass" remark: I thought it took a special kind of bad judgment to engage in this kind of speeding. All this news coverage suggests that maybe it's not that special a kind of bad judgment at all.

I'm glad that Acton has taken steps to provide safe(r) activities for adolescents and young people in town. We have a skate park. There's Danny's Place. These are all helpful.

ETA Yet again: Contemporary coverage of the McCarthy/Dennis accident

http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x245537929