A driver and two of his passengers have been charged after a hit-and-run accident near Boston’s North Station overnight left a 25-year-old woman with head and upper body injuries.
The driver, Jakob Civil, 23, of Randolph, is charged with leaving the scene of the accident which caused personal injury and multiple motor vehicle violations. The two passengers, Eric Tinsley, 23, of Brookline, and Jacob Marks, 22, of Boston, are charged with assault and assault of a police officer, disturbance of a police officer, disorderly conduct and trespassing. Civil was being held on $1,500 bail following his arraignment Friday, while Tinsley and Marks were each being held on $500 bail. All three are scheduled to return to court for a probable cause hearing on Jan. 20.
Prosecutors said police responded at around 12:45 a.m. Friday at the corner of Causeway Street and Portland Street over a report of a pedestrian being hit by a car. The victim was found bleeding from the head at the scene.
She was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment. Her condition was not immediately known.
A witness told police he was walking behind the victim when she was struck by a gray Honda, causing her to roll onto the car’s hood before landing in the street, where the Honda then turned upside down and shoulders. A second witness followed the car after it fled the scene and informed the driver, Civil, that he had hit a pedestrian. Civil then returned to the scene of the crime and identified himself to police.
Civil passengers, Marks and Tinsley, remained at the scene, where prosecutors said they made “rude and derogatory remarks” to officers. When they arrived at the Boston Police Department’s A-1 station on Sudbury Street to pay Civil’s bail, they yelled obscenities at officers in the lobby and had to be removed. The men waited outside the station, and when officers showed up to answer an unrelated call, Marks and Tinsley allegedly challenged the officers to a fight and then punched them in the chest. Both men were then arrested.
