Man pulled over for speeding to teen sister's funeral gets 100-mile ride from Ohio police officer

When Mark Ross found out his teenage sister, 15-year-old Eliza Fletcher, had been killed in car crash, he wanted to be with his mother as soon as possible.

But without a vehicle, Ross needed a ride from where he was in Indiana back to Detroit. After convincing a friend to drive, they took off just after 3 a.m. Sunday. According to a Facebook post Ross wrote, they were speeding through Ohio when red and blue lights flashed behind them.

A grieving mother analyzes how a dangerous road design contributed to her son's death

One of the many ways our visitors interact with Accident Data Center is to express their grief and loss, and also to analyze how a collision happened. In this instance, a grieving mother whose son was killed in a pedestrian collision gives details of the collision site and the dangerous nature of the roadway.