Canton Coverup Part 323: Helena Rafferty Blames Car For Hitting Elderly Man In Crosswalk, Says She Notified Canton Officials And Probably Should’ve Made Statement Before Being Exposed On Turtleboy
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Yesterday as a result of our reporting Canton Police Chief Helena Rafferty was forced to issue a public statement admitting that she hit an elderly man in a Wrentham crosswalk in February while driving a town-owned vehicle:
“First and foremost, I want to express my sincere and continued concern for Wrentham resident Michael C. Barry, whom I accidentally struck on the evening of February 16th, 2024, as I was driving to my home in my town issued vehicle through the Town of Wrentham.
Apparently the chief has a stipulation in her contract that she is allowed to drive a town owned vehicle for recreational purposes because she is “always on the job.” I guess the taxpayers of Canton don’t mind shelling out some extra cash so Helena Rafferty doesn’t have to pay for her own gas.
As the report filed by the Wrentham Police states: I was driving on South St. toward the center and came to the intersection of Creek St. where I needed to make a left-hand turn. As I proceeded to make the left turn onto Creek St., the vehicle lights caught the reflective vest of a person in the crosswalk. I immediately applied my brakes, but unfortunately, the car made contact with him, knocking him to the ground. I immediately exited my vehicle to render first aid and called 911. I remained on scene with Mr. Barry until the Wrentham Police and Fire Departments responded. At that time, I answered questions, and upon my request took a breathalyzer test which read 0.0% blood alcohol content.
The car made contact with him? The vehicle lights caught the reflective vest of a person in the crosswalk? I’m sorry, does the car have a mind of its own? This is her way of deflecting blame away from herself. There is zero reason a driver paying attention to the road should hit a man who went out of his way to wear reflective gear. It’s not the end of the world that Rafferty accidentally struck him, and it doesn’t make her a bad person for doing so, but at least take ownership of it.
Upon the arrival of first responders, Mr. Barry was alert and conscious, and was transported to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment. I stayed on scene until the scene was cleared.
He was transported to a hospital in Rhode Island, and then spent more than 3 weeks in painful rehab after undergoing 9 surgeries.
The investigating officer issued a Massachusetts Civil Citation for Chapter 89 Section 11, Marked Crosswalks/Yielding the right of way to pedestrians, which I have paid.
My vehicle sustained no damage, with the exception of a scuff mark on the right front corner, therefore no tow was necessary. Upon clearing the scene, I immediately notified Canton officials as to what happened.
Newsflash – it’s not “my vehicle.” It’s the taxpayer’s vehicle. But the fact that she claims that she notified Canton officials immediately is interesting. Who did she notify? Was it the Board of Selectmen? Is there documentation of this? If so, why haven’t they made a statement?
This was an unfortunate accident. Upon further reflection and considering the amount of attention that has been focused on Canton, I should have issued a statement sooner.”
Translation – I was hoping this could get swept under the rug, but unfortunately Turtleboy wrote about it and forced me to issue this lame statement. Her town is at the center of a national murder case, and that the citizens of Canton voted to audit her police department four months ago, yet somehow it slipped her mind that it might be important for her to be transparent about running a man over in a town-owned vehicle.
Just a reminder, these are all Helena Rafferty quotes:
360 degrees of transparency is required for her position. Yet she was the exact opposite of transparent when she failed to make public the fact that she hit an elderly man in a crosswalk.
The way to bridge the trust gap is with “effective and healthy communication.” Yet she failed to effectively communicate the fact that she put an elderly man in the hospital for 3 weeks due to her reckless driving.
I agree with Helena that people like her should be held to a higher standard. So I guess the next question is, when is she going to resign? How are you holding yourself accountable if you’re not disciplined at all for your lack of transparency?
This picture of her should never go away. It shows the defiance and hatred she has for the people who pay her salary. How does she afford a 1.8m home when she couldnt even buy out her ex?
Detail pay at Gillette Stadium. She assignes herself while collecting salary
Extra 50 k a year
Karma is real!
YOU’LL BE SORRY, PEE-WEE HERMAN!
Sorry I can’t help it. Every time I see that picture.
lol!!
So the victim is within his rights to sue the town of Canton if she was “on the job” in a Canton-owned vehicle?
The victim can sue both of them
I hope he sues her personally too.
Yup. If I had to guess…..I’d say he gets 250k from this at min. More than the cost of the Canton audit.
If this guy had 9 surgeries + several weeks of inpatient rehab, then his medical bills alone are probably well over $250k. The town will be lucky if this settles for less than $1m.
Aren’t you limited to what you can sue for?
Not if there is a violation of the law involved — but ask an attorney on this.
Interesting, she was going home from Canton to Norfolk? Look on a map, you do not have to go through Wrentham if you are coming from Canton, so where was she coming from?
Motel
If you go home via 95 to 495 you go that exact route
She could drive 90+ in the left lane on 95 & 495.
It’s a real pity they didn’t download the car’s EDR…
ANOTHER LIE: if you are taking a left on to Creek St from South St you are heading AWAY from Canton
Scrivener’s error by Mykul Prawktur
Yeah but you would be headed directly to her home
Yet she stands by silent as an innocent woman is ever more clearly being falsely tried for murder… for OVER two years she’s participated to some degree in the frame-job.
(silence = complicity)
The more she speaks of her honor…
She hasn’t been silent. Warning people Not to protest the ordering the arrest of the Canton 9 for holding signs.
Helena is an embarrassment to all women.
She can go hug “Kenny” and squeeze some more DNA-encrusted taillight from his Fanny pack.
Crooks.
Resign? She’s got a big nut she has to make every month to stay in that 7,000 Sq ft, $2M mansion. With only her salary to do it with, she’s not going anywhere voluntarily.
Plus she will lose her 50-76k in detail pay A Gillette Stadium while colecting a huge salary.
She will be lucky to get a Wal-Mart security job if ever fired
She doesn’t have a $2M mortgage. You can see online that she took out two mortgages in November totaling about $1.2 M. That’s still a hefty mortgage payment with today’s rates but it’s not $2M. I’m sure she needs the income from her job to pay it though.
Can’t make this shit up.
Canton Deserves her. Renew her contract after tonights rigged election.
Who conting the votes ? Selectman/ 🤡 r Chris Albert
The public has a right to be suspicious about this accident. We are at the point that there is no official in Canton that is credible, especially anyone from the Canton Police Department.
She hits a man who has taken every precaution necessary to be safe. This poor man has undergone so many surgeries and those surgeries will likely impact him for the rest of his life. I hope this man recovers fast and doesn’t suffer any complications.
Did the police look at her phone to see if she was texting, looking at it, etc?
Did the police do any type of bloodwork on her to determine if any drugs were in her system that could have impaired her driving? Not necessarily street drugs but prescribed medications.
If she wasn’t working but driving the police vehicle then why is the Town of Canton on the hook for any lawsuits? Makes more sense to me that she is held personally liable vs the town.
Why aren’t the charges against her more severe? Sounds like she got a citation/ticket for the bare minimum. A man suffered a lot of bodily harm as a result of her negligence. What if he ends up dying due to a complication from surgery? Does it change the driving charges to Vehicular Homicide?
Canton is really a town in crisis now. Even without this accident, Chief Rafferty is a very weak leader and needs to be replaced. From the moment she spoke at the Select Board Meeting she was clearly protecting the Alberts, McCabes, and Proctors and using her badge and position to interfere with justice. She could have approached it very differently and from a more neutral standing but it was clear that she was on the side of those in the house that night. Those so called “witnesses” will soon be “suspects”.
The people voting for the audit were motivated to do so as a direct result of her poor leadership and possible corrupt officers under her as well as a very dysfunctional Select Board.
Sending positive vibes to all the great woman that are running for office in Canton and looking to make a difference in a community that desperately needs it.
In MA the vehicle’s owner’s insurance policy is primary for liability. The driver’s liability policy is excess. If the Town of Canton owns the car, their liability policy comes first. If the claim exhausts the town’s policy limit, Helena (or her personal auto insurance policy) has to pay the portion of the claim that exceeds the town’s policy limit.
Helena, hold yourself accountable, or you’ll be held accountable. Choice is yours but accountability is not avoidable. Make this easy on yourself. We know you read these.
You should post the contact information for the Boston FBI case workers so they can be contacted when Tuggy, Bukkake or Fanning show up to intimidate them. I believe the FBI is currently failing to protect these targeted victims from the targets of their investigation. Their victims are intimidated because they aren’t protected when these interactions occur.
I am not a car person, but is that a Ford Edge
I think it’s a Ford Explorer
….. if you believe cars and guns, not the people, kill people.
7 figure settlement coming. Way to lead by example.
Towns only pay 100k in Mass. Gotta sue her.
I’d like to see attending officers’ body cam footage.
That’s foiable
Not every agency has body cams, Wrentham does not. Upkeep and maintenance is very expensive
on a side note the 7-11 on Washington St in Canton was robbed today by 2 men…I wonder what Chris and Colin needed…maybe some vape thingeez and scratchies?
Michael suffered severe injuries to his legs requiring 9 surgeries, after being hit at low speed!!
The only damage to the vehicle was a scuffed bumper!
Michael is 67 years old and walks with a stick!!
Bare all of that in mind and then compare this accident to the Murder of Officer John O’Keefe.
John was half of michaels age, an active, fit and healthy cop, and over 6ft tall, weighing 230lbs.
John had a fractured skull, black eyes, a laceration to his skull, uniformed lacerations to his arm, bruised hands and knuckles as well as a couple of scratches one at his eye the other near to the bridge of his nose.
The claims are that Karen reversed into him at low speed and killed him …..her tailight was cracked until it suddenly became smashed to smithereens …..and John is dead.
They then claim John flew 12ft onto the lawn …..yet no injuries to his legs, no injuries to his torso and no broken neck when he was supposedly hit in the head braking the shatterproof plastic on the tail light!!
Chief Rafferty got a fine …..Karen Read is facing a life sentence!!
One of these cases was most certainly involved a vehicle and admitted to ….whereas the other bares no resemblance to a collision with a vehicle!!!
Chief of Police gets a fine for incapacitating an elderly man.
Karen Read faces a life sentence because they claimed she murdered Officer John O’Keefe!!,
How do we know that Chief Rafferty’s intention wasn’t to run over that elderly man to kill him…..yep we don’t, but we clearly see that depending on who you are the laws don’t apply!!
Zero investigation into Rafferty, they didn’t drug test her they didn’t check her phone but folks she paid her fine ….from your tax dollars that pay her salary!!
We can’t prove that Raffertys intention wasn’t to murder Michael, anymore than the CW can prove that Karen murdered John!!
At least we all know Karen didn’t try to cover up what happened to John, she went to look for him and then tried to save his life…..because Yes folks that’s what ‘murderers’ apparently do!!
That was awesome
Awesome article Aidan!
In her report Diversity Chief Rafferty said she stopped her vehicle immediately and put it in park, then got out and administered first aid to the victim of her negligence. The pictures shown here depict the Canton town vehicle to be more than halfway over the center line of the road at the crosswalk. She clearly cut the corner going too fast and probably on her phone. Maybe she was on the job discussing taillight discovery tactics with Eagle Eyes Berkowitz.
Exactly how many traffic accidents have you investigated, and for what agency?
What does the picture show and what does the report say? Nice try
Maybe your buddies Yurine and Fanny will go pay the victim a visit to extract a confession.
In fairness, she hit him with the right fender — she probably swerved to the left trying to avoid him.
That would put her on the wrong side of the road.
She didn’t have time to pull an evasive maneuver and she didn’t say that in her report where she only mentioned that she applied the brakes. The witness was driving in the opposite direction too which makes your theory dubious. Plus Rafferty’s Canton car had its rear wheels entirely through the crosswalk, she needed at least a car length to stop and she was clearly cutting the corner way over the line. No wonder the victim of her negligence needed nine surgeries.
Im sure she was going faster than they claim KR did in reverse. And no damage to her vehicle. Yet some how we are too believe KR killed JO and shattered her tail light. WTF.!!!
Wow, you’re kind of a dick. I used to respect the work you do, but you’re all in to attack someone who is the epitome of integrity and professionalism. I am familiar with that intersection and I can tell you, it can be a struggle at certain times of day to take the left there. So you’re looking into southbound 1a traffic for a break and you have to move quick when you get a break to turn. Chief Rafferty May be the most ethical person you will ever meet. Unfortunate that she was involved in this accident, but it was just that, an accident. She stayed and assisted and notified her bosses as required. I find it weird that you would think she needs to issue some public statement about it. I would be proud to have her as my town’s Chief
Bless your wee heart you fookin fool
She hit a disabled PERSON. In a REFLECTIVE VEST. In a CROSSWALK!!!! It was not investigated if she was on her phone/texting or otherwise driving distracted-drugs perhaps? A simple…breathalyzer was all that was needed. The witness saw him and his reflective vest. Sorry-no excuse!!!
AWESOME!!!!!
So she is more concerned with not getting hit by another car while she is turning rather than a 67 yo man with a cane and reflective vest in the crosswalk? She sounds like a peach
Your police chief drives like an Asian woman.
She has sooo much integrity, that’s why the reports were hidden, and her priority was to contact the local Police Chief!!
The only reason that she has admitted what she has done is because she was exposed…..and then blamed her car!!
The incident happened 7 WEEKS AGO!!
The elderly gentleman has had 9 SURGERIES and 3 weeks in hospital/rehab …..no doubt currently in a wheelchair …..because bones don’t heal in 3 weeks as much as Helena would like to insinuate in her statement!!
Not only did that elderly man suffer injuries to his legs, there were broken ribs, a laceration to his head, injuries to his chest and arms!!
Helena Rafferty was not drug tested, her phone was not taken …..and all she received was a fine …..which she could easily afford hence why its already paid!!
If this was any other person they would have been named in the media, and the charges would have been far greater!!
An investigation would also have been done!!
This same Chief is the same person, that didn’t inform the mother of a 5 year old child who was assaulted with a missile……that a court hearing was taking place.
The charges were then dropped because the mother didn’t appear in court …..Chief Rafferty then made a statement that it was the mother’s fault that the perpetrator was not charged …..even though the mother called daily to find out when the court case was due to be heard!!
Please watch the mothers interview……then come back and let us all know if you are proud to have Helena Rafferty as a Chief of Police??
This is the same woman that gave the go ahead to charge 9 people for holding signs …..because they were in the eyesight of her buddy Chris Albert …..the man that’s on the Selectboard who authorised her role as Chief of Police!!
She also appoints him a police officer as an escort at each meeting ……yet doesn’t consider that he is the one abusing people on a daily basis …..and has a hotline to the DA to get people arrested who are in his eyeline or who dare to drink in the same bar as him …..where he then follows them outside to harrass them and then get their number plates to report them to police!!
You are not a very good judge of character and be very grateful that its not your taxes paying for the protection ….of a man that has also committed perjury by signing his business licence paperwork ….WHILST OWING TAXES TO THE TOWN!!
…this is sarcasm, correct?
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Helena needs to learn that talk is cheap. Its what you do that defines you.
The mindless Dem-mings of MA get what they deserve, corrupt politicians and police and a police state. They allow their rights to be taken away from them by the state. See the buffer zone around the Courthouse, the bs witness intimidation jailing, the president of the MA senate covertly (without public hearing) basically making gun ownership prohibitively expensive (a lawfare tact to take your 2nd Ammendment rights away). Keep voting Dem and the state will take care of you and your money/taxes too. Wait til you get the bill for the unvaxed illegals (and their legal guns)!
“GEE Moe, If she had a nice kitchen at the PD she wouldn’t have been texting on the phone ordering mediocre chicken parm to go”
Man, and I thought reflective gear was SUPPOSED to catch the lights of a vehicle.
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You posted this twice, with some tweaking.
I give you a D+
Lacking fashion.
Any pictures of the back of the car and the scene from that angle? Were there any skidmarks and were they measured? Or did they not bother with any of that?
Why are women promoted in police departments?
Seriously. If someone can show me a correlation function where they can prove that a person’s promotion is at or more than 0.5 with respect to a reduction in crime than I’m all ears.
The reason Helena and MOST appointees are promoted is due to political happenstance. It’s even more glaring when a woman is promoted as they have neither the physical demands required or a male or the quantifiable accoladed of a male of comparative time and grade.
Probably the same reason someone like Meatball Morrissey is the Norfolk DA.
It does not have much to do with their genitalia.
You are missing a couple of things here.
First, he was taken to a TRAUMA CENTER, not a hospital. Memory is that the one in RI is a LEVEL 1 (highest) center, for people who are SERIOUSLY injured, i.e. likely to die.
In fairness, she may have requested this, and it’s best to err on the side of caution, but he didn’t just go to the local hospital.
Second, she was turning LEFT and hit him with her RIGHT fender. That means that he had been in the sweep of her headlights while she was turning. And she braked.
HOW FAST WAS SHE GOING?!?
While it didn’t trip the airbags, a collision like this will usually trip the car’s Event Data Recorder.
That was the black box that told us Tim Murray was going 107 MPH and it would tell us how fast she’d been going.
And if it had been you or I, they would have impounded the car and downloaded the data.
Why wasn’t the MSP accident reconstruction team called? If he went to a trauma center, you presume it could be fatal.
The investigation into the identical Hull Fire Department vehicles has raised concerns about their usage.
While they belong to the town of Hull for emergency use by the fire department, they are not consistently deployed for emergencies. Instead, they are often driven by individuals associated with a controversial incident involving a firefighter purchasing opiates with a stolen prescription pad.
This incident has tarnished the department’s reputation, leading to skepticism from industry insiders.
That Fire Fighter’s drug/sex buddies are now the entire administration for the Department.
They continue to create “fake” positions for each other, while changing nothing. These result in thousands of dollars of stipends, each year.
Chief Chris Russo’s substantial salary, exceeding those of neighboring towns like Hingham and Cohasset, raises eyebrows, particularly when coupled with the department’s reliance on resources from these towns due to poor management and staffing issues.
The toxic work environment within the department discourages conscientious individuals from joining, prompting many to transfer elsewhere or leave the fire service altogether.
(Very expensive)
It was reported, within the last few years, Russo showed up to a Hingham fire, intoxicated. He attempted to “order” men into the building.
Thank god, they did not take this “Chief” seriously.
Many of Russo’s staff would make jokes about him “going to DeLat,” which was a restaurant in Hull. Unlike Toast, they did not manage to survive Covid.
Russo’s staff spoke of how intoxicated he would become at the Town restaurant, followed by Facebook rants on the Emergency Management Page.
He once threatened all linemen and quickly backtracked, as his threat made no sense and the linemen have a much stronger union than the PFFM.
Concerns also arise regarding the use of Town of Hull resources for personal matters, including undisclosed iPhones.
These are unlisted.
Some department members exhibit a sense of entitlement, treating town resources as their own despite limited involvement in emergency response duties. Often saying “they owe me,” meaning the citizens of the Town of Hull owe these men more privileges than they already enjoy.
Allegations against certain individuals, such as the superintendent accused of misconduct and the support of figures like Katie Barclay, suggest a culture of favoritism and criminal activity. Barclay’s involvement in the recent election cycle highlights these issues. Substance abuse and sexual predators are a standard of Hull Fire. This has been decades.
As the upcoming election season approaches, it’s crucial to stay informed about these developments.
Additionally, there are concerning incidents involving individuals associated with establishments like “Toast,” including allegations of attempted murder and questionable business practices. Delving deeper into these matters reveals a complex web of interconnected issues that warrant further scrutiny.
Then, you can try and figure out all the extramarital affairs.
Come visit Brockton by the Sea.
The taxpayer dollars are being toyed with…