crash_reports: 1900001173

On Thursday, November 14, 2019, while assigned to Traffic unit N525, I responded to the rear parking lot of the Angier Elementary School located at 1697 Beacon Street for a motor vehicle crash involved a City of Newton owner vehicle. The weather at the time of the crash was clear and sunny. The road surface was dry. Beacon Street is a public way maintained by the City of Newton. The operator of MV1, Jessica Moore, stated she was backing out of a parking spot in the rear of the Angier Elementary School while operating a 2007 Chrysler Town and Country (MA:395KR9). Moore stated she did not see MV2 passing by as she was backing out and the rear driver side bumper area of her vehicle crashed into the rear driver side of MV2. Moore reported no injuries. I observed moderate damage to the rear driver side bumper area of MV1. The operator of MV2, Patrice Lys, stated he was traveling Westbound in the parking lot of the Angier Elementary school in a 2018 Ford EcoVan (MA MVN: M2546A). Lys stated a vehicle on his driver side backed out of a parking spot and the rear end of MV1 crashed into the rear driver side of MV2. Lys reported no injuries. I observed minor damage to the rear driver side area of MV2. The operator of MV1 was cited with Massachusetts Uniform Citation T2016428 for Newton City Ordinance Chapter 19, Section 75 (Fail to Use Care, Backing). Photos were submitted to the IT Bureau.