Rideshare passenger struck on Interstate 93 in Quincy ⁠5%

By John R. Ellement⁠3%

7/20/2026, 12:41:02 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Unattributed Quote, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 25.8% saturation with 50 hits. Analysis detected 165 faulty-reasoning hits from 194 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 20.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠5% (20,142 of 21,171 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 95.10% of the article peer group.

A rideshare passenger was seriously injured on Interstate 93 in Quincy Sunday night when he ran into traffic and was struck by a vehicle, State Police said. 
Shortly after 9 p.m., the rideshare driver called 911 and reported that their passenger was acting erratically, State Police said in a statement. 
The trooper located the vehicle, which had pulled over near the Braintree split, and spoke with the passenger, police said. 
The trooper started a conversation with the passenger, but the man suddenly ran away, according to dispatch recordings on Broadcastify. 
“He ran away. 
I ran after him. 
Then he stopped. 
I tried to talk to him,” the trooper told dispatchers. 
The trooper reported approaching the man a second time. 
“He ran into traffic,’' the trooper said. 
The person was struck by a vehicle and became trapped underneath it, according to dispatch transmissions. 
Troopers and Quincy firefighters extricated the man, who was rushed to a Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries. 
The incident is under investigation by State Police and Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. 
Morrissey’s office. 
John R. 
Ellement can be reached at john.ellement@globe.com. 
Follow him @JREbosglobe. 
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194 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers34%attributed speech128writer words
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State Police

100%flagged-word coverage
64 attributed words97% of attributed speech43% writer coverage
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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