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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
A 22-year-old Lacey man was killed early Wednesday morning crash in Olympia. The collision happened at about 1:15 a.m. in the 2700 block of Pacific Avenue. According to police, a pickup truck was traveling at a high rate of speed when it left the road and hit a tree. The driver, Alex Petermann, was the only person in the vehicle and died at the scene. Authorities said the truck was traveling between 60 and 100 miles per hour.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
A driver led La Mesa police on a chase Wednesday night that entered Lemon Grove and ended in a crash and arrest. No one was injured. At around 9:35 p.m. a La Mesa officer observed a driver in a white Dodge Charger run a stop sign at Waite Drive and Harris Street. The driver ignored the officer’s attempt to pull him over, kicking off a chase on state Highway 94 and city streets. The Dodge’s driver turned off his lights and attempted to lose officers by running stop signs and red traffic signals, according to a statement from La Mesa police.
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Monday, December 30, 2013

A head-on crash on Guide Meridian left two young men dead early Tuesday, Dec. 31, according to the Washington State Patrol. Travis Lee Holst, 23, the driver of a green '03 Chevy Tahoe, had been driving northbound on Guide Meridian before he crossed the center line near Smith Road. The Tahoe crashed head-on into a silver '97 Honda Civic driven by Brox Mitchell Browning, 20, of Lynden, at 12:17 a.m. Browning died at the scene. 

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Sunday, December 29, 2013
A man was killed in Franklin County when his car went airborne in a crash on Route 30, according to state police. Pedro Ramirez Serrano, 30, of Fayetteville, was closely following another car "at a high rate of speed" around 5:35 p.m. Monday in the left westbound lane through Greene Township, according to state police news release. Ramierez Serrano tried to pass the car, but clipped the passenger-side rear bumper, according to state police. Ramirez Serrano's Nissan Rouge "went into the air and did a 180 degree turn," according to the news release.
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Saturday, December 28, 2013

A 5-year-old was critically injured after a car hit a tree overnight in Auburn. The 21-year-old male driver and an 8-year-old girl have non-life threatening injuries. The car was traveling 90 mph when it ran off the road around 2:30 a.m. and hit a tree on Auburn Way South. Emergency crews had to help free the man and boy after they were trapped in the car. Authorities say the girl managed to get out without help. Police are investigating to determine if alcohol was a factor in the accident.

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Washington State Patrol says speed and intoxicants were factors in a crash on Interstate 5 Sunday night in Vancouver. Kevin W. Smith, 52, of Kelso was reportedly driving south on Interstate 5 about 6 p.m. in a 2002 Chrysler Sebring when he rear-ended a Honda Accord near Northeast 134th Street, according to state patrol. A juvenile passenger in the Accord was injured and transported to Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center. The passenger’s name was not released and her condition is unknown. Smith was also injured and taken to Legacy Salmon Creek.

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Thursday, December 26, 2013
A man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Santa Rosa Friday evening after allegedly causing a five-car crash that left three people injured, police said Saturday. Police said the collision occurred around 5:15 p.m., when a Toyota Tacoma speeding down Hoen Avenue toward Yulupa Avenue rear-ended a car stopped at a red light. The force of the crash caused three more cars stopped at the light to collide, causing major damage to each of the cars and leaving three drivers with minor injuries, police said. One of the drivers was taken to a hospital to be treated for their injuries.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
A Michigan man was killed Friday in a snowmobile accident in Columbia County, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The accident was reported about 1 p.m. near Cambria, and speed and snow conditions may have been factors in the accident, according to the DNR.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
A grandson of retired Florida State University football coach Bobby Bowden was among two young men killed Thursday in a traffic crash in Polk County, the Sheriff's Office said. Investigators said the driver, Rafael Fernandes De Aguiar Valim, 25, and passenger Taylor Jeffrey Bowden, 23, both of Winter Haven, and Robert Lewis Edwards, 22, of Boca Raton were at a bar in Winter Haven on Christmas night prior to the 2 a.m. crash in Winter Haven. Edwards, the back-seat passenger, survived the crash into a ditch or creek filled with 5 feet of water.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Two people have died in a head-on collision on Sunset Boulevard west of Rocklin. A CHP spokesman said the crash occurred about 5:15 p.m. three miles west of Fiddyment Road.