Driver Runs Onto Red Line Tracks in Quincy; Schools Locked Down

Featured image: North Quincy station on the MBTA Red Line, viewed from the north footbridge, Nov. 2, 2020 (file photo). The photograph shows the station and tracks, not Thursday’s police search or the abandoned car. Photo: Pi.1415926535, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Key points drawn from The Boston Globe’s account of Turner’s statements, NBC Boston, Boston 25 News, Patch and WHDH, as of Thursday evening, Nov. 12, 2026, Eastern Time.

A man sped away from a Quincy traffic stop on Thursday afternoon, crashed a Maserati and ran onto nearby train tracks, delaying the MBTA Red Line and commuter rail as police searched for him, officials said. Schools in North Quincy were locked down during the search and later reopened, according to Boston 25 News.

As of Thursday evening, Nov. 12, 2026, Eastern Time, State Police had not announced an arrest. Officials had not publicly identified the driver or said why the vehicle was stopped. This account is based on statements from Massachusetts State Police and Quincy police as reported by The Boston Globe, NBC Boston, Boston 25 News, WHDH and Patch.

What police said happened

State Police spokesperson Greg Turner told the Globe that a trooper pulled a Maserati Ghibli over around 12:30 p.m. on Enterprise Drive in Quincy. After a brief interaction with the trooper, the driver sped off and crashed the car nearby, Turner said. The man abandoned the vehicle, hopped a fence and was later seen running on train tracks by the Newport Avenue extension, according to the Globe’s account of Turner’s remarks.

NBC Boston, also citing State Police, gave the same sequence: a trooper tried to stop the Maserati Ghibli on Enterprise Drive about 12:30 p.m., the car fled and crashed nearby, and the driver was seen jumping a fence blocking the tracks near Newport Avenue Extension. WHDH reported that the man was seen jumping a fence and running down the railroad tracks near the North Quincy T stop.

Quincy Police Chief Mark Kennedy described the start of the incident in slightly different geographic terms. Boston 25 News quoted Kennedy as saying State Police attempted to stop an individual over the Neponset Bridge during a traffic stop in Quincy, after which the man “bailed out” of the Maserati after crashing and fled on foot. Boston 25 used a misspelling of the car’s model name; the Globe and NBC Boston, citing State Police, identified it as a Maserati Ghibli. The outlets did not reconcile whether the Neponset Bridge and Enterprise Drive descriptions refer to two points in one pursuit or to the same stop described differently. This article reports both accounts and does not treat one as a correction of the other.

Turner told the Globe it was not immediately clear why the trooper pulled the vehicle over. NBC Boston similarly reported that State Police did not share what led to the traffic stop or whether they had identified the driver.

Red Line and commuter-rail delays

The search spilled onto the railroad right of way and disrupted traffic on the transit system. The Globe said the pursuit caused delays on the Red Line and the commuter rail. Boston 25 News reported that Red Line service was delayed because of police activity between North Quincy and JFK/UMass. NBC Boston said a large search involving aircraft and police dogs temporarily delayed Red Line traffic.

North Quincy station is on the Braintree branch of the Red Line, south of JFK/UMass, where the branch splits from the Ashmont line. Officials quoted in the accounts reviewed here did not say how long the delays lasted, how many trains were held, or which commuter-rail line was affected. The Globe’s report did not name a commuter-rail branch.

The interruption landed on a week when another subway line was already operating under a planned shutdown. The MBTA has been running a partial Green Line closure, with shuttle buses replacing some service through Nov. 15, while crews work on signal upgrades, as The Boston Report outlined in a rider guide and as NBC Boston reported earlier in the week. Thursday’s Red Line delays were a separate, unplanned disruption tied to the Quincy police activity, according to the accounts of the search.

School lockdowns during the search

Boston 25 News reported that North Quincy public schools were placed on lockdown while authorities searched for the suspect who fled on foot. Patch, summarizing that report Thursday afternoon, said Quincy schools were placed on lockdown after the driver fled and that the lockdown had been lifted. Neither outlet published a named list of school buildings in the initial accounts reviewed here, and The Boston Report did not obtain a separate statement from Quincy Public Schools before publication.

School lockdowns are a public-safety step, not a finding that the suspect entered a campus. None of the reports cited above said the man was seen at a school or that any student or staff member was injured. The lockdowns were described as a response to the nearby search.

The search, and what remains unknown

Turner told the Globe that authorities searched until about 3 p.m. but found no sign of the suspect, who as of about 3:45 p.m. remained at large. Boston 25 News, citing the investigation, said the State Police Air Wing and K-9 units, assisted by Quincy police and Transit Police, searched the area until approximately 3 p.m. NBC Boston also reported that Quincy police and MBTA police were helping with the investigation, and that the driver had not been arrested when the search was suspended about 3 p.m.

Boston 25 News interviewed Todd McGhee, whom it identified as a former longtime State Police trooper, for context on how such searches are typically handled. McGhee said desperate people do desperate things, and that if a person is running and is not wanted for a violent crime, there may be less emphasis on a prolonged search. Referring to the decision to call off the active search, he asked whether officials would want police activity to “spill over and create some collateral damage,” and said it was “just a matter of time before he’ll surface.” Those comments are McGhee’s assessment, not an official statement of the suspect’s criminal history or of State Police strategy. Officials had not said, in the reporting reviewed here, whether the driver was wanted for a violent crime.

WHDH said anyone with information was asked to contact police. Boston 25 News described the suspect’s whereabouts and the incident as remaining under investigation. As of the last official update quoted by the Globe, about 3:45 p.m. Thursday, the man had not been taken into custody.

For riders and residents, the verified public record Thursday evening was limited but consistent on the core facts: a public safety search that began with a traffic stop in Quincy, a crash, a flight onto the tracks near North Quincy, transit delays, temporary school lockdowns, and a suspect still at large after the afternoon search was suspended. Later police updates, if they identify the driver, explain the original stop, or report an arrest, would fill in what officials had not yet made public.

Sources

• The Boston Globe: Man flees Quincy traffic stop, crashes luxury car, and runs onto train tracks; search for suspect continues
• NBC Boston: Luxury car flees police stop, crashes in Quincy; driver runs off via train tracks
• Boston 25 News: Police search for suspect who fled traffic stop near Quincy MBTA station; school lockdowns lifted
• WHDH: Police searching in Quincy for man who sped, ran away from traffic stop
• Patch: Quincy Schools Places On Lockdown After Driver Runs From Traffic Stop: Report