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Thursday, January 16, 2014Area:
Los Angeles, CAA driver fleeing police Friday collided head-on with another car, bailed out on foot, then failed to scale a fence before throwing himself to the ground and surrendering to police.
The suspect has been identified as 34-year-old Carl Smith.
The pursuit started just before 3 p.m. near Florence Avenue and Flower Street in South Los Angeles, police said.
The pursuit wound through streets for about 30 minutes. At one point the vehicle nearly hit a truck.
The chase transitioned to the Century (105) Freeway, clocking speeds of 100, before going back onto the streets.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 21-year-old motorist who drove into a house in Alden early today had a blood-alcohol content that was more than three times the legal limit, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported.
Zachary E. Olejniczak of Alden was heading north on Two Rod Road, shortly before 12:30 a.m., when he failed to stop at the intersection of Westwood Road, deputies said. His car went across the road and crashed into a home at 11664 Westwood Road, causing significant damage to the foundation.
The people who live there were home at the time but not injured, deputies said.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNOne of two snowmobiles riding together crashed into an unoccupied ice fishing trailer on a western Wisconsin lake late at night, killing a 20-year-old woman riding behind the drunken operator on the trailing machine, authorities said Thursday.
The crash occurred about 10 p.m. Wednesday on Bone Lake, southeast of Luck, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman suffered “severe head injuries” despite wearing a helmet, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
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Thursday, January 9, 2014A teenage girl died and another was injured in a high-speed wreck on an isolated street near the Port of Oakland early Friday morning, an area known for illegal street racing.
Police officers responding to reports of an accident just after midnight on the 500 block of Maritime Street found that a vehicle had left the roadway and collided with a pole, officials said.
The girls in the vehicle, both 17-year-olds from outside Oakland, were taken to a hospital, where the driver, who has been identified as Kaitlyn Benson, was later pronounced dead.
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Friday, January 3, 2014Area:
Indianapolis, INA man was airlifted to the hospital with serious internal injuries after a snowmobile crash in Kosciusko County.
According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 31-year-old Keith Hochstetler, of Milford, was driving a snowmobile in the area of 600 N and 150 W when he hit a snowbank and was thrown off the vehicle. Investigators said Hochstetler was going around 50 mph at the time of the crash.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAA 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, 2013Area:
San Diego, CAA 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, 2013Area:
Everett-Bellingham WAA 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, 2013Area:
Washington, DCA 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, 2013Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAA 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.