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Friday, November 22, 2013
State police are looking into weather as a possible factor in a deadly accident that happened late Saturday night in Union Township, Washington County. Garrick Lackey, 21, was a passenger in an SUV that went off the road and flipped in the median of Toll Route 43. Lackey, of Littlestown, Pa., was pronounced dead at Jefferson Regional Medical Center, according to the Allegheny County medical examiner's office. The driver was injured in the crash.
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Friday, November 22, 2013
In Raleigh, Darnell Marquise Johnson, 25, died early Saturday after losing control of his car and crashing on southbound Capital Boulevard near Interstate 440, police said.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

One person is dead and two otherw were injured in a crash on Route 16 early Friday morning, police said.

The driver of a 2009 Ford Explorer, whom police have not identified, was killed, and two passengers were injured in the crash near the intersection of Cedar Ridge Road, police said. No other vehicles were involved.

According to the police report, the Explorer was traveling west on Route 16 when it apparently crossed over the center line and struck a stone wall and trees on the south side of the road.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

One person was injured Friday morning when two semi-trucks and one or two other vehicles collided at Carroll and Miramar roads, where San Diego police blocked several lanes.

The crash occurred about 10 a.m. Paramedics took one person to a hospital with possibly serious injuries, police Officer Jim Johnson said.

Traffic lanes were blocked in both directions of Miramar Road and on northbound Carroll Road during an investigation, police said.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

An accident on Interstate 97 in Glen Burnie closed the road to northbound traffic Friday morning.
Initially police closed the road in both directions in the area of Route 100, however by 9:25 a.m., the lanes for southbound had been reopened, according to police.
Two cars were involved in the crash and at least one person was airlifted to a regional hospital for treatment.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

An 8-year-old girl was killed in an auto accident early Friday morning in northwest Atlanta.
The child was taken to an area hospital where she died, an Atlanta Police spokeswoman stated.

The woman driving the vehicle also was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for her injuries, police said.
Police were called to the intersection of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway and Fulton Industrial Boulevard around 7:15 a.m., for the accident that involved a white truck.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Authorities in Las Vegas say they've responded to hundreds of car accidents while a storm system drops an inch of rain over desert dwellers.

The Nevada Highway Patrol responded to 141 crashes between 7 a.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday, including 37 with minor injuries. That's four to five times what the agency sees on a normal day.

Las Vegas police fielded 112 car crash calls in a rainy five-hour period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursday.

Police advised motorists, used to bone-dry roads, not to forget they need to change their driving habits when storms roll in.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

The president of a north Florida tea party group has been killed in a two-vehicle car crash in Marion County.

The Florida Highway Patrol told the Ocala Star-Banner that 70-year-old Stephen Hunter of Sparr died in the Friday night crash. Hunter headed the Ocala Tea Party or Tea Party Solutions for the last several years.

Troopers say Hunter was attempting to make a left turn on U.S. 441 and apparently did not see an oncoming pickup truck, which struck Hunter's car on the driver's side.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

The Vigo County Sheriff's Department responded to the scene of a one car accident just after 10:30 p.m. on Friday.

Officials report a 1999 Gold Mazda 4 Door ran off the road and struck the tree line on State Road 46 near Lama Road.

The male driver, Fred Peters, 77 of Sullivan, was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest.

Peters was transported to Terre Haute Regional Hospital where he later died.

Chief Deputy Clark Cottom stated that Peters may have suffered a medical condition prior to the accident.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

A tractor-trailer carrying carpets caught fire around noon Friday on the I-190 near the Clinton-Bailey exit.

The fire appeared to have started in the cab. Buffalo firefighters initially brought the flames under control, but the fire flared up again, going through the roof of the tractor-trailer.

Three fire trucks were parked on the Thruway, near an overpass, while another on Clinton Street pumped water from the hydrant at Rogers Avenue.

The driver of the Covenant Transport truck was reportedly uninjured.