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Wednesday, January 1, 2014Area:
St. Louis, MOEmergency crews were on scene at an icy patch of highway 64/40 Thursday afternoon after multiple accidents happened just moments apart.
Just west of the Boone Bridge on westbound 64/40, a female motorist hit a patch of ice and spun off the highway. The vehicle went across Technology Drive, a bordering roadway, before sliding into an embankment.
The driver was not hurt, and there was no one else in the car. While officers responded, a second vehicle hit the same patch of ice, causing it to overturn.
During the accident, one of the three people inside the vehicle was ejected.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
La Crosse-Eau Claire, WIEmergency workers in La Crosse have recovered a body from a car that broke through the ice on a creek.
The driver was the only person in the car.
A bus driver called dispatchers Wednesday about 1:30 a.m. when he noticed tire tracks leaving the street and heading over a bank toward Swift Creek.
The vehicle plunged down a 40-foot embankment but the ice didn't immediately break. The vehicle headed a little south on the ice before breaking through into the water.
Rescue divers found the vehicle submerged in 6 to 8 feet of water.
An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday in Madison.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAOne person was killed and three people were injured early Wednesday morning in a Burien crash. The collision happened at the intersection of 112th and 12th Avenue before 3 a.m when a vehicle crashed into a tree. There were three men and one woman, believed to be in their 20s, in the vehicle. One person died at the scene and the three others were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Deputies believe speed and fog were factors in the crash and it is unknown if alcohol was involved.
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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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Thursday, December 26, 2013Area:
Madison, WIA 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, 2013One person was killed and three others injured in a head-on crash in Williamstown that occurred during a snowfall.
Police say the woman who died in the Thursday crash on Route 7 was a passenger in a Hyundai Elantra that collided with a Buick Lucerne. She was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield where she was pronounced dead. Each vehicle had two occupants.
Three other people were taken to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield with injuries that were serious but did not appear life-threatening.
No names were released.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Philadelphia, PANewark Police are investigating a serious six-car crash that left an eight-month-old girl hospitalized in critical condition Thursday.
It happened around 11 a.m. on Capital Trail at the Windy Hills Bridge.
Police say a southbound Dodge Neon operated by a 36-year-old woman, with two small children inside, slid on the icy roadway and into the path of a northbound Honda Accord, operated by a 75-year-old man with a 75-year-old female passenger. The Neon was struck on the passenger side by the front of the Accord.
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Monday, December 23, 2013Area:
Cincinnati, OHA 10-mile stretch of Interstate 90 eastbound has been shut down after at least 10 different traffic crashes involving about two dozen cars.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the first calls for the accidents came in around 11 a.m. Tuesday as holiday traffic increased and the weather continued to dump snow in the area.
The crashes are expected to delay traffic for several hours, dispatchers said.
OSHP said the eastbound lanes of I-90 were closed between Ohio 44 and the Madison exit, a stretch of about 10 miles, dispatchers said.
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Friday, December 20, 2013Area:
Kansas City, MOThe icy roads are being blamed for a crash that killed an unidentified man in Kansas City, North. The man died shortly before 4 p.m. in a one-vehicle accident near the intersection of Missouri 152 and North Indiana Avenue. Police said they would not identify the driver until they had notified his family.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013Area:
Oklahoma City, OKOklahoma City police are looking for anyone who witnessed traffic fatality Friday to call police to be interviewed. Vickie Ayres, 66, was driving about 6:40 p.m. Friday on a bridge in the 8500 block of NW 39 Expressway near Lake Overholser when numerous vehicles lost control as the bridge iced over, police said. Ayres died in the multi-vehicle crash. The accident is still under investigation and investigators believe that many people who may have witnessed the crash were not interviewed by police because of the inclement weather, police said.