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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Ventura, CAThree people were injured when a fishing boat ran aground in Anacapa Island off the coast of Port Hueneme Monday.
The boat, known as Sea Biscuit, ran aground at Anacapa Island around 12:26 a.m., and was carrying about two dozen people.
Authorities say those onboard the boat sent a distress signal. That's when Oxnard firefighters jumped on a Coast Guard boat from the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard and responded to the scene.
It took crews two hours to tow the boat back to the mainland.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013Greensboro woman died from her injuries after she was hit by a car Monday night.
City police said Stephanie Raffensberger was hit while trying to cross East Cone Boulevard near Orange Street.
Authorities said she walked into the path of a vehicle traveling westbound.
Raffensberger, 47, died at Moses Cone Hospital.
The 21-year-old driver of the vehicle has not been charged.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Washington, DCAn accident near Silver Spring's White Oak Shopping Center sent one Metro bus driver to the hospital with serious injuries.
According to Montgomery County Fire Department, crews responded to a Metro bus crash in the 11200 block of New Hampshire Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Monday.
The bus driver had exited the bus on New Hampshire Avenue when it began rolling and eventually pinned her against a retaining wall, according to officials.
Officials say the bus was not in service at the time. She was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries where she later died.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Washington, DCA SUV that had been carjacked crashed into a Metrobus in Southwest Washington on Monday morning, officials say.
The crash happened near the intersection of Joliet Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Soutwhest, MPD officials say, where a stopped A4 bus was hit by the fleeing vehicle.
A person is in custody, officials say.
Two bus riders claimed minor injuries. The driver of the Metrobus was not injured.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013A husband and wife are dead after a three-vehicle accident near Simpsonville Monday night, according to the Highway Patrol and Greenville County Coroner’s Office.
Leanna Carolina Turner, 23, and her husband Samad Fard Muhammad Turner, 30, were killed after their vehicle collided with a pick-up truck head-on on Fairview Road around 10:40 p.m.
Samad Turner was the driver, and Leanna Turner was the passenger in the 2008 Nissan. Both were wearing seatbelts, according to the Greenville County Coroner.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Johnstown-Altoona, PAAuthorities in central Pennsylvania say a sport utility vehicle hit a utility pole and rolled over several times, killing two people.
Police in Blair County say they believe the crash happened at about 2:30 a.m. Monday on Old Route 220 in Newry, but it wasn't reported until about five hours later.
Chief Terry Dellinger of the Freedom Township police force said the SUV had been heading south when it went out of control and hit the pole.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Washington, DCA fatal crash on the northbound lanes of I-295 in the District shut down traffic along a stretch of that interstate earlier Tuesday morning.
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Police said they responded to a call for the accident at 11:46 p.m. Monday night. A police spokesman said the victim was an adult male whose Chevrolet Camaro rolled over into a wooded area near the road. He was found unresponsive by officers and had to be extricated from the car. The victim was transported to Prince George's Hospital Center, where he was declared dead shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TXRescuers in Lewisville are on the scene of a serious crash involving a school bus and at least two vehicles.
The accident happened on Highway 121 Business and Railroad Street, just east of Interstate-35E and south of Main Street.
The school bus was empty, besides the driver.
There are reports that the driver of one of the vehicles ran a red light and hit the school bus.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Boston, MAA driver survived a horrifying crash on Route 9 in Newton Monday morning as his pickup truck ended up wedged underneath a tractor-trailer.
The accident happened just before 7 a.m. in the westbound lanes outside the Chestnut Hill Mall.
Police stated that the driver of the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado hit some black ice and could not stop in time to avoid hitting the tractor-trailer which was crossing Route 9 at the time of the accident.
Several firefighters were called in to help free him from the pickup with the Jaws of Life.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Fargo-Valley City, NDAuthorities urged residents to evacuate a small North Dakota town late Monday after a mile-long train carrying crude oil derailed nearby after colliding with another train.
The Cass County Sheriff's Office said Monday night it is "strongly recommending" that people in the town of Casselton and anyone living 5 miles to the south and east evacuate to shelters set up in Fargo, which is about 25 miles away. Casselton has about 2,400 residents.