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Friday, March 21, 2014A 4-year-old has died after being struck by a car Saturday night, according to Sunrise Police. Police said a car traveling southbound at the 4100 block of Pine Island Road lost control as the driver tried to avoid another car just after 8 p.m. Officials said the car then hit three pedestrians that were walking on the sidewalk: a 37-year-old mother, an 8-month-old infant and a 4-year-old child. The three were taken to the hospital, where the 4-year-old, later identified as Abdallah Staih, died, according to police.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014Area:
Ft. Wayne, INPolice said two 12-year-old girls were injured in an off-road vehicle crash in Wells County Friday night. One of the girls was taken to a Fort Wayne hospital in serious condition after she was pinned underneath the ORV.
According to Indiana Department of Natural Resources officers, Trinity Wine, 12, of Keystone, was driving a Polaris Ranger with passenger Tess Gilbert, 12, of Warren, on private property in the area of 1500 E. 900 S. in Keystone shortly before 7 p.m. Friday.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014A teenage boy was killed and a teenage girl was critically injured after they were hit by a freight train while walking to a high school dance in Northern California Friday evening, authorities said.
The accident happened near Marysville's only high school and a little league park where a game was being played, CalFire Capt. Dennis Hunt said.
The boy, later identified as Mateus Gabriel Moore, 16, died at the scene and the girl, later identified as Mickayla Friend, was airlifted to hospital with traumatic injuries, Hunt said.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA school bus swerving to avoid hitting a pair of deer has skidded off a road in rural LaSalle County and tipped onto its side, injuring the driver and two children.
Sandwich School District 430 Superintendent said the bus was taking children to Lighted Way, a school for students with special needs in LaSalle.
He says the driver swerved to avoid hitting two deer on U.S. Route 52 around 8 a.m. Friday.
The bus skidded on loose gravel and toppled onto its side in a ditch.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA Polk County school bus accident sent 12 Crystal Lake Middle School students to the hospital Thursday morning with minor injuries.
It happened around 8:10 a.m. at the intersection of South Crystal Lake Drive and US 98 in Lakeland.
Alicia Delgado said it wasn't the collision that sent her running to the scene Thursday morning, but what she heard shortly after.
Authorities say a Subaru was two cars behind a school bus carrying 30 Crystal Lake Middle School students.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014Area:
Boston, MAA Framingham town employee is currently being held without bail after police say he tried to kill two children by crashing his car into a pole.
Prosecutors say Peter Curtis, 32, of Medway, picked up his 10-year-old niece and 15-year-old nephew at their home on Monday to give them a ride to their mother’s workplace.
According to the police report, Curtis, who works for the Framingham Parks and Recreation Department, warned the children just before he crashed.
“Buckle up, we’re going on a death run,” prosecutors claim Curtis said.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCSeveral students were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries early Wednesday after a wreck involving a school bus near McGee's Crossroads Elementary School in Johnston County, State Highway Patrol officials said.
Forty-eight students were on the bus at the time of the wreck, which happened at about 8:15 a.m. near the intersection of Greenleaf Road and N.C. Highway 50.
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Monday, March 17, 2014Area:
Hartford & New Haven, CTAn 8-year-old New Haven girl is in the pediatric emergency department at Yale-New Haven Hospital after being struck in a hit-and-run this morning.
Police said the girl was struck by a white van at Ferry and Pine streets just before 7:30 a.m. Neighbors ran to held and the driver fled the scene.
The girl was running into a daycare when she was struck, according to a man who said he knows the victim.
Hector Rivera said the girl had run across the street to ask a bus driver if that was her bus. When the bus driver said no, the girl started running back to the daycare and was struck.
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Monday, March 17, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLTwo teenage sisters were injured after a driver struck them early Tuesday morning.
A Tampa Police spokesperson says Norma Velasquez-Cabrera, 15, and Victoria Velasquez-Cabrera, 14, just left their apartment in the Meridian Pointe complex and were walking to Middleton High School. As they tried to cross East Hillsborough Avenue, they were hit by a car at 7:15 a.m.
Norma is critically injured, Davis said. Their mother rushed to the hospital to be with them.
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Sunday, March 16, 2014Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA 7-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was hit by a car in Central Minnesota on Monday morning.
The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office was called to the 21900 block of County Road 7 in St. Augusta around 7:26 a.m. Monday on a report of a crash. According to the sheriff, the boy was crossing the street to get onto a school bus when he was hit by a 2004 Pontiac Bonneville driven by 60-year-old Margaret Hartnick of St. Augusta.
The school bus was southbound on County Road 7 and was picking up three kids at that address, and the Pontiac was heading northbound.