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Massachusetts college student killed in bicycle crash remembered as brilliant and kind
CAMBRIDGE – Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Cambridge Police Commissioner Christine Elow have confirmed an ongoing investigation into a fatal crash involving a box truck and cyclist that occurred at about 8:20 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Hampshire Street and Portland Street.
The preliminary investigation suggests that both the truck and the bicycle were traveling in the same direction on Hampshire Street and the truck was turning right onto Portland Street at the time of the crash. The bicyclist, a 24-year-old Cambridge woman, was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital where she later died. The truck operator remained on scene.
According to a GoFundMe fundraiser, Minh-Thi Nguyen, affectionately known as “Mint,” was brilliant, humble and kind. She was a 3rd year MIT physics PhD student.
This is an open and active investigation being conducted by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, the Cambridge Police Department and Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section.
Fed Up
June 24, 2024 at 9:40 am
Tragic story however a GoFundMe? Yearly tuition at MIT is $58K
M
June 24, 2024 at 12:56 pm
Responding to “Fed Up” what does the tuition at MIT have to do with this tragedy? If people want to contribute to a go fund me page
In response what’s the problem?
Fed Up
June 24, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Because people who usually start GFMs are for families who don’t have the means to pay for services themselves. You’re stating the obvious by saying people can choose to contribute but she’s going to MIT at a cost of $58K a year ( that’s more than the average resident makes in a year ) and lives in Cambridge. These people aren’t exactly hurting for money.
Anon
June 24, 2024 at 3:17 pm
She was a PhD student so they don’t pay tuition and are paid a stipend by the uni. If you’ve ever lived in Cambridge/Boston you’d know how expensive the cost of living is, she would’ve had no savings at all. It’s a shame that people like you feel the need to comment on a schools tuition fee structure when someone has tragically lost their life.
Fed Up
June 24, 2024 at 4:56 pm
I used to work in Boston I know exactly how expensive it is. I was commenting on the GFM and the need for it. Follow along.
Raj
June 25, 2024 at 12:10 pm
She might be studying on scholarship, what is wrong with people . This is sad tragedy nothing do with MIT tuition.
M
June 24, 2024 at 4:01 pm
Responding to “Fed Up” what bothers you so much that you would comment as you did. I suspect it’s the fact that she obviously had a foreign name and looks Asian.
Fed Up
June 24, 2024 at 4:53 pm
That’s what you suspect? It shows your stupidity. Carry on.
M
June 24, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Yes I suspect that you’re a racist anti immigrant right winger. Who blames all of America’s problems on the least culpable among us. The minorities and immigrants. I suspect you’d like America to be more white and domestic born. I suspect that every time you see a minority or immigrant receiving any benefit, you take it as an affront to the “real Americans “ like you.
Fed Up
June 24, 2024 at 7:45 pm
” Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. ” Thank you for removing all my doubt. And everything else you typed is pure projection. I would agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.