Drag races discovered in Westwood Friday, April 13, 2007 - Updated: 12:26 AM EDT
WESTWOOD - Police are keeping an eye on a stretch of University Avenue that has become a popular late-night weekend drag racing spot for youths in recent weeks, according to Police Lt. Leo Hoban. Officers will be patrolling a one-mile stretch of the road near Rte. 128 and the MBTA station after finding about 100 people there one weekend in March, and 40-55 cars there early Sunday morning, Hoban said. Police found the people and their cars at 75 University Ave., the site of an abandoned industrial building, at 12:23 a.m. Sunday, where Hoban said they were racing up and down the street two at a time, driving personal cars that had been modified for racing. Police asked the drivers to leave, and made no arrests. But in a similar incident on March 24 police arrested a Dorchester man who didn't stop right away when asked by an officer. Hoban said police that day at 12:17 a.m. went to University Avenue to find 75 to 100 people gathered to watch races. Hoban said police spotted Fernando Santiago, 20, of 315 Norfolk Ave., Dorchester, getting ready to race against another driver, and tried to stop him. Santiago refused to stop right away, Hoban said, and when police finally pulled him over getting onto Rte. 128 he was arrested on charges of failing to stop for police and reckless endangering. Satiago's competing driver, a 17-year-old Boston man, did stop for police, and was not arrested, but issued a summons on motor vehicle charges, Hoban said.
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