Thursday, November 26, 2009 BERSHIBA: A Weston man was severely injured in the center of town Thursday after he was hit by an elderly driver while walking across Rte. 27. Michael Selame was rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston with what Walpole public safety officials are calling “serious injuries.”The accident occurred just after noontime Thursday, Nov. 19 according to police reports, when 90-year-old Beatrice Abramowitz, of Norton, drove through the intersection of Rtes. 1A and 27 before hitting Selame.Police said the 26-year-old pedestrian took the brunt of the hit on his right leg. The force of the strike sent him airborne, they said, slamming him onto the hood and windshield of Abramowitz’ Chrysler Pacifica. Abramowitz then swerved to the right, smashing into a utility pole at the Rte. 27 entrance to the Main Street Shopping Plaza, according to responding officers and fire officials.The turn threw Selame from the top of the car, police said, causing him to roll 24 feet to the side of the road after hitting the ground.Deputy Police Chief Scott Bushway said Selame was taken into Boston with “serious injuries.” Responding officers noted the most severe injuries were sustained to Selame’s head and the right side of his body.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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