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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Salt Lake City, UTUtah Highway Patrol says a fatal accident occurred about 3:10 p.m. Thursday near the mouth of Parleys Canyon.
Steven T. Parker, 46, died after veering his 2005 black Cadillac Escalade SUV off northbound I-215 East by the ramp to take I-80 east. The vehicle went up an embankment, vaulted over the bridge at 3000 South and hit a light pole before landing on the northside embankment of westbound I-80 and catching on fire.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Honolulu, HIA 24-year-old Lihue man was medevaced to the Queen's Medical Center Thursday night after sustaining head injuries in a traffic accident, according to Kauai police.
The incident happened at about 11 p.m. on Kuhio Highway near the Fish Express in Lihue.
Officials say the man was a passenger in a black Nissan pickup truck that was traveling north on Kuhio Highway. He then fell out of the truck.
The man was taken to Wilcox Hospital by the driver of the truck, a 21-year-old woman. She did not sustain any injuries.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Milwaukee, WIA head-on crash Thursday afternoon on Highway 120 in Lyons killed a Lake Geneva man and injured two others, according to a statement from the Walworth County Sheriff's Office.
At around 4 p.m. Jeffrey Peiffer, 52, of Lake Geneva, was driving south on Highway 120 north of Prairie Road when he crossed the center line and struck a car driven by Wolfgang Schubert, 69, of Wauconda, Ill., with one passenger, Rosalina Deinlein, 40, of Morton Grove, Ill.
The crash shut down the highway for hours.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNAn 80-year-old man from St. Paul died in a rollover crash the night of Thanksgiving in Dakota County.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, David Jones was eastbound in the right lane of Highway 110 near Highway 149 when he went off the road and rolled. The one-vehicle crash happened around 8:30 p.m.
Jones was ejected from his vehicle and died from his injuries, the state patrol reported.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Authorities have arrested a man they say sped through a red light and crashed into vehicle, killing an Ocala couple.
The Florida Highway Patrol arrested 30-year-old Allen Cole Godwin on Thanksgiving Day. He's charged with two counts each of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide in the Oct. 24 crash that killed 67-year-old Ray Allen Kraus and his 64-year-old wife Pamela Jean Kraus.
The FHP estimates Godwin was travelling 78 mph when he ran the red light. Tests revealed his blood-alcohol level was .19, well above the state's legal limit of .08.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Albuquerque-Santa Fe, NMA pedestrian was killed Thursday night on Rio Bravo near Coors.
Preliminary investigation reports that just before 8:30 p.m.Phillip Cutler was driving South on Coors in the inside lane. Eric Martin was also driving South in the middle lane, according to an email this morning from Albuquerque Police Department.
A pedestrian in dark clothing was jaywalking westbound across the southbound lanes of Coors.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013A Mechanicsburg teenager was arrested Thursday night after police in Upper Allen Township said the 16-year-old was found driving under the influence of drugs in a hit-and-run crash.
The incident occurred around 8:25 p.m. in the 1700 block of North Meadow Drive. A BMW Sedan, which was located by police several blocks away, struck a curb and caused property damage in the area of the crash. The sedan also sustained disabling damage in the incident.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Tulsa, OKA 1-year-old Tahlequah girl died in an accident with a pickup on Thanksgiving, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
October French was taken to a hospital, where she died of head injuries, according to a patrol report.
How the girl died is still under investigation, but the patrol said the girl was not in a vehicle when she was struck about 6 p.m. in a private driveway just west of the Tahlequah city limits in Cherokee County.
Adrian Sanders, 18, of Tahlequah, was driving the pickup.
No one else was hurt.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Louisville, KYThree adults, including a Louisville Metro Police officer, and one child were injured in an accident around 11 a.m. Thursday on the Watterson Expressway near Bell Lane.
An LMPD officer was helping a motorist whose white pickup was stopped on the side of the road on the westbound side of the expressway, according to an LMPD spokesperson. While the driver of the pickup was speaking to the officer, a silver Scion truck hit the rear driver’s side corner of the police car.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAA man driving a stolen car t-boned another vehicle, injuring a family of four on Thursday evening.
Police say just after 6 p.m., a car owner was warming up his vehicle near Rainier Avenue South and South Othello Street when an unknown man jumped inside the car.
The car’s owner left a gun inside, and when he went to confront the suspect, the suspect showed the owner he had already taken the gun.
The suspect drove north on Rainier with the owner chasing after him in another car. A patrol officer saw the vehicle and began following it.