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Fenway Park car crash, apparent updates on Boston shooting – NBC Boston

A woman crashed her car into a gate at Fenway Park after several incidents, including a hit-and-run accident, in the Boston area on Monday, police said.

According to Boston police, the accident occurred at Fenway Park at Gate C on Lansdowne Street. The driver was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The vehicle crashed into a forklift, according to a Boston Red Sox representative, who added: “Fortunately, no injuries were reported at the scene.”

According to Boston police, the accident was the result of a driver going the wrong way near the intersection of Boylston and Exeter streets in Back Bay, where cars were struck. It was not immediately clear whether the driver injured in Fenway was a wrong-way driver or what the incidents were related to.

But state police said the driver in the Fenway Park incident was involved in three other incidents on Monday: an accident at the Coast Guard Station in Boston, a hit-and-run accident at the entrance to the Ted Williams Tunnel in East Boston and a fleeing police officer stop in Revere .

The driver was identified as Colleen Marie Gibbs, a 48-year-old from Salem.

The first incident was reported around 7:03 a.m. when a driver in the area of ​​Ocean Avenue and Revere Street near Revere Beach told a trooper that a car was driving erratically and aggressively, according to state police. The officer spotted the car, a 2024 Honda Accord, and the driver honked and yelled at him before driving off and failing to stop when he turned on the patrol car’s lights to stop the car.

The hit-and-run accident at the tunnel entrance in East Boston was reported around 7:30 a.m., striking two vehicles, according to state police. The drivers were not injured.

A damaged gate at a U.S. Coast Guard base in Boston on Monday, May 6, 2024.
A damaged gate at a U.S. Coast Guard base in Boston on Monday, May 6, 2024.

State police did not share information about the incidents at the Coast Guard base or Fenway Park, referring questions to Boston police, the lead investigators.

It was not immediately clear whether Gibbs was charged in the Boston incidents; Police said they will file charges in the incidents in Revere and East Boston.