BOYLSTON, Mass. (AP) — Police say a contracted truck driver with a suspended license ran down a Verizon worker picketing in Boylston, the second time a protester of the communications giant was struck in Massachusetts in less than a week.
Thirty- seven- year- old Kevin Goodale was charged with leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, operation with a suspended driver’s license and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Police say Goodale was driving a 1999 Kenworth truck owned by a Verizon contractor from Vermont when he struck 48-year-old Anthony Davenport around 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Davenport had been picketing outside Verizon’s Shrewsbury Street location. He was hospitalized at UMass Memorial Medical Center with nonlife threatening injuries.
Goodale initially fled the scene but later returned. It’s unclear if he has an attorney who can comment.
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