Woman Hit By Car On I-95

Car Was Disabled In Breakdown Lane

POSTED: 6:00 am EDT April 25, 2007
UPDATED: 6:42 am EDT April 25, 2007

BOSTON -- State police said a Randolph, Mass., woman was hit by a car and seriously injured Tuesday night after her own car became disabled on Interstate 95 in Westwood.

Troopers said Lina Gomes, 41, was driving her black Chevy Cavalier on the highway just after midnight when it became disabled in the breakdown lane between the East Street and University exits.

Gomes got out of the car and walked down the road to talk to another driver whose car was also disabled, and when she was walking back to her own car she was hit by a 2002 Saturn driven by Mikel Parent, 32, of Falmouth, Mass.

She suffered serious injuries to her lower body and was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

The accident was under investigation.

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