BOSTON (AP) - Police say a woman who got out of a moving ride-hailing vehicle inside a highway traffic tunnel in Boston suffered life-threatening injuries when she was struck by another vehicle.
State police say the woman was picked up at Logan Airport by an Uber driver and was being driven home to Boston when she exited the rear passenger door inside the O’Neill Tunnel at about 7:45 a.m. Monday. The tunnel carries Interstate 93 under downtown Boston and is not open to pedestrians.
The 29-year-old woman was taken to Tufts Medical Center.
The male driver of the vehicle that struck the woman and the woman driving the ride-hailing vehicle both remained at the scene.
It remains unclear why the victim got out in the tunnel.
No names were released.
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This story has been corrected to show that the injured woman was taken to Tufts Medical Center, not Massachusetts General Hospital, per new information from state police.
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