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WBZ

(WBZ) BOSTON Police say road rage triggered a violent crash this morning in Dorchester which killed a 30-year-old woman and critically injured a baby girl.

The accident happened around 2:40 a.m. on Blue Hill Avenue and Fabyan Street. A Dodge Stratus went airborne and struck a tree.

An 8-month old girl, who was strapped in a car seat, was thrown from the vehicle. The child is listed in critical condition.

Firefighters needed to cut open the car to free another adult woman and a ten-year-old girl

Boston Police Captain James Claiborne said the road rage incident involved two people who apparently knew each other.

The road between Harvard and Morton Streets remains closed.

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_215062652.html


Channel 5
Video: 1 Killed, Baby Hurt In Overnight Crash

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Ex-con charged in road-rage homicide



Jason Bailey, 28, of Mattapan is arraigned in Dorchester yesterday. (Herald pool photo)

By O’Ryan Johnson
Saturday, August 4, 2007 - Updated: 01:49 AM EST

A violent ex-con is accused of running a carload of women and children off the road, and causing a crash that killed a teenager and tossed a baby in a car seat 30 feet - where it landed face down in oncoming traffic.


Jason Bailey, 28, of Mattapan was charged with motor vehicle homicide and several other motor vehicle crimes after fighting with a woman driving the car at a nearby gas station, prosecutors said. He was held on $100,000 bail.


Black tire marks scorched the asphalt where passenger Porsche Hubbard - a hardworking 18-year-old who dreamed of becoming a nurse and split her time between visiting family in Boston and Chicago - was killed in the crash early yesterday morning.

“She was a strong person,” said Hubbard’s mother, Sharon Powell, seated in Dorchester District Court as she waited to see the man accused of killing her daughter. “I think that’s why she died. She put someone before herself.”


Bailey, a repeat offender with a rap sheet that includes multiple counts of assault and battery, resisting arrest and witness intimidation, was allegedly behind the wheel of a white 2007 Mitsubishi SUV that rammed Hubbard’s car as it drove down Blue Hill Avenue around 2:40 a.m.


Powell, who owns a Mattapan hair salon, said while she’s not sure what happened, she believes her daughter was babysitting for a customer and the woman arrived to pick up her child early yesterday morning.


In addition to the women in the car, Powell said her niece, China White, 10, who spends summers in Boston but lives in Chicago, was loaded in the car, along with an 8-month-old baby girl.


Sometime after the four left, the car stopped at a Mobil gas station on Blue Hill Avenue. It was there, prosecutor John Powers said, that a fight erupted between Bailey and a woman in the car.


Powers said Bailey apparently knew the driver of the car, based on the comments of the 10-year-old girl identified by the family as White, who said, “The scary man in white truck was yelling at the gas station.”


After the confrontation, a cop spotted Bailey chasing the car down Blue Hill Avenue, ramming Hubbard’s car. The cop began to follow them when Hubbard’s car lost control and skidded into a median strip sideways, where it smashed into a tree.


During impact, the baby’s car seat was ejected and flew 30 feet into the opposite lane, where it landed face down, Powers said. The baby was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital in serious condition. White suffered a serious leg injury. The driver, who was not identified, is in a medically induced coma, Powers said. Hubbard - the second oldest of four siblings - was pronounced dead at the scene.


Powell, who is pregnant with her fifth child, said she named her daughter Porsche because she liked the cars, but she hasn’t picked a name for her next child.


“Maybe Porsche if it’s a girl,” Powell said.


http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...icleid=1015177

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