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Boston Herald
Boston Herald
16 Aug 2023
Chris Van Buskirk


NextImg:City Councilor Kendra Lara due in court today over June crash

Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara was due in court this morning in connection to a June crash that left her son injured and a home in Jamaica Plain damaged.

A lawyer for Lara entered a not guilty plea on her behalf to traffic charges stemming from the crash at a hearing in July after a police report said she was speeding down Centre Street, crashed into a house, and endangered her son by not putting him in a car seat.

Lara previously said she was committed to seeing the legal process through.

“I have faith and trust in the court process and I will continue to go through it as is required of me,” Lara said after her arraignment. “My commitment right now and my focus is continuing to represent my constituents in District Six and making sure that I’m representing them in the best way that I can.”

Lara is scheduled for a pretrial hearing in West Roxbury Municipal Court, according to the court’s schedule. She is represented by Attorney Carl Williams.

A judge ordered Lara not to drive a vehicle without a valid driver’s license while her case plays out in court.

She faces multiple charges including negligent operation of a motor vehicle, speeding, driving with a suspended license, and not placing a child under 8 years old and under 58 inches in a car seat, among others.

A Boston police report said Lara was driving an uninsured, unregistered car that belonged to Somerville resident Thomas Owens at the time of the crash. She was operating the vehicle with a revoked license when police say she was driving at least 53 miles per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour zone.

The councilor said she crashed into the Jamaica Plain house to avoid a parked car that started to pull away from the curb, according to a police report. Lara told police that she swerved to avoid the car and “could not hit the brakes fast enough before colliding with the home,” according to the police report.

But the driver of the other car said he had barely moved out of the parking spot along the curb and was barely in motion “when he noticed a car driving down the street from behind him at a high rate of speed,” the police report said.

“[The driver] stated he did not pull away from the curb due to the high rate of speed that vehicle #1 was traveling in his direction,” the police report said. “… He emphasized that he was not close to hitting the car and believed that the other driver was speeding. He confirmed that the other vehicle had not damaged or touched his vehicle.”

Previous Boston Herald reporting was used in this report. This is a developing story.