A bicyclist was killed Monday night in a crash at the intersection of Broad and Newhall streets in Lynn, police said. Officers closed parts of both streets as they investigated, and the victim had not been publicly identified as of Tuesday morning.
Police said the crash happened at Broad and Newhall streets, according to WHDH 7NEWS. Emergency dispatch logs described first responders being sent to Broad Street near Newhall Street after a motor vehicle struck a victim who became trapped underneath the vehicle, requiring Advanced Life Support personnel for transport, according to a post from Facebook page Boston's Wicked North Shore. It remains unclear whether speed, lighting, or right-of-way issues played a role in the collision, or whether the driver remained at the scene.
An Intersection With a Documented History
The crash site is not an unfamiliar name to Lynn safety planners. The intersection of Broad Street and Silsbee/Newhall Street was identified in the city's 2024 Safety Action Plan as one of Lynn's high-crash locations, logging 38 collisions over the study period, six of which involved vulnerable road users and three of which resulted in serious injuries. City officials pointed to complex geometry and un-signalized turn movements as contributing factors at the location, per the safety plan.
That history sits alongside a broader municipal reckoning with traffic deaths. Between 2018 and 2022, 14 people were killed and more than 220 were seriously injured in traffic crashes on Lynn streets, averaging more than three deaths and 40 serious injuries per year, according to the city's safety planning data. Officials noted that serious and fatal crashes involving vulnerable road users in Lynn did not decline even during periods of reduced pandemic-era travel.
Vision Zero Goals and Federal Funding Still in Progress
The Lynn City Council formally adopted a Vision Zero resolution in March 2024, committing the city to eliminating all traffic fatalities and serious injuries on its streets by 2040. Six months later, Lynn was awarded a $9.58 million federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grant through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, intended to fund street design changes across 17 miles of high-injury roadways, according to the office of Congressman Seth Moulton. Lynn was one of 354 communities nationwide selected for that round of federal safety funding.
Those infrastructure upgrades take time to design and build, and it is not clear how quickly planned changes might reach the Broad and Newhall intersection specifically. Hoodline has previously covered the same federal grant in the context of other recent Lynn crashes, including a June collision in which a pedestrian was killed by a tractor-trailer near Commercial Street on the Lynnway, and an August incident in which a driver was cited after fleeing the scene of a crash that injured a 7-year-old.
What State Law Requires When Sharing the Road
Massachusetts' Vulnerable Road User law, which took effect in April 2023, requires motorists to maintain at least four feet of distance when passing bicyclists and other vulnerable road users, and permits drivers to cross double yellow lines when it is safe to do so, according to Mass.gov. The same law requires cyclists riding at night to use a front white light, a rear red light, and a rear reflector, but it explicitly bars police from stopping a rider solely for a lighting violation, according to MassBike. The statute also specifies that a lack of lighting cannot serve as conclusive evidence of contributory negligence in civil claims.
Statewide, bicyclist fatalities in Massachusetts averaged about seven per year from 2017 to 2021, with male cyclists accounting for nearly 90 percent of those deaths, based on MassDOT data. Separately, an annual safety survey examined by StreetsblogMASS found that nearly 70 percent of fatal traffic crashes involving vulnerable road users in Massachusetts in 2024 occurred in designated Environmental Justice neighborhoods. MassDOT's 2025 annual performance report noted that serious injuries on Massachusetts roadways decreased 4.3 percent from 2023 to 2024 even as travel volumes rebounded.
No further details on the identity of the cyclist or the circumstances of Monday night's crash have been released. Hoodline will update this story as police release additional information.
