Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...runaway car struck a pedestrian, a motor scooter and a traffic signal yesterday afternoon at the corner of Mt. Auburn and JFK Street when the driver apparently fell asleep. No serious injuries were reported...
Witnesses said a blue Chevy station wagon, traveling up JFK Street at about 15 mph, was approaching the intersection just after 4 p.m. when it veered to the left. A local woman, who requested anonymity, said the car did not appear to slow down as it struck a bystander near the curb...
...pedestrian, a middle-aged man, had jumped forward to avoid the car but was flipped into the air by a glancing blow from the vehicle, said a Harvard student who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. The man's elbow broke the windshield of the car on impact, but he was talking and walking after the accident without any visible injuries...
...another death became an even more chilling symbol: the brazen assassination of Police Officer Edward Byrne, 22, a New York City rookie cop guarding the home of a Queens resident who had complained about cocaine dealing in his neighborhood. A gunman fired five shots into Byrne's parked squad car, breaching a line against the deliberate killing of police that even the Mafia usually respects. An army of 10,000 lawmen, some from as far away as Texas, attended Byrne's funeral in what may have been the largest such U.S. police honor guard. "If our son Eddie, sitting...
...plainclothes sergeant with the Park Police, was cruising down Washington's Champlain Street. He pointed out two Jamaican men in hooded sweatshirts, standing guard outside a decrepit apartment building. "They're protecting everything that's going on inside," says Moyer. "You see the same thing every day. A car pulls up and two guys get out. One's got a pound of cocaine in a plastic bag. And the other one has an Uzi under his coat...