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Saturday, December 21, 2013Area:
Philadelphia, PAPolice say a Clayton man was drunk and speeding when he lost control of his car and crashed into a retention pond in New Castle, Delaware.
The crash occurred shortly before 6 p.m. Friday. New Castle County police say the driver, 41-year-old Robert Blisard, hit the rear bumper of another vehicle, causing him to lose control of his car and crash into the pond located off the east bound lanes of Commons Boulevard near Reads Way.
The driver of the other vehicle and a passenger in Blisard’s car were treated for minor injuries.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013Area:
New Orleans, LAOne person has died after a collision involving a city Regional Transit Authority bus near Southern University of New Orleans' campus. The wreck happened around 12:30 p.m. in the 6400 block of Press Drive, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
A motorist ran into the back of the RTA bus, police said. That person, who was not named immediately named by authorities, was taken to a hospital. The death was reported to police around 1:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013Area:
Memphis, TNA car rear-ended a bus at a Collierville intersection Wednesday.
The bus was taking 32 students home from Bailey Station Elementary when the accident occurred shortly before 4:30 p.m. at Shea Road and Poplar Avenue.
No students were injured; they were safely transferred to another bus to the school where parents picked them up.
The bus driver was checked out by paramedics as a precaution. The driver of the Corvette was airlifted to The MED.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013Area:
New York, NYA tanker carrying thousands of gallons of fuel overturned and burst into flames on a Long Island highway just before midnight Tuesday, causing two injuries and an inferno that charred several cars, damaged four homes and a Harley-Davidson dealership, Nassau County authorities say.
The tanker was traveling east on Sunrise Highway in Bellmore when it rear-ended another vehicle at a stop light, Nassau County police say. After the collision, the tanker turned on its side and spilled fuel as it skidded down Sunrise Highway before coming to a stop at Brevoort Place.
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Monday, December 16, 2013Area:
Salt Lake City, UTA 17-year-old girl was seriously injured Tuesday morning when she collided with the rear end of a school bus on foggy Highway 89/91 in Cache County.
Logan police said the accident report came in at 7:37 a.m. from the area of 800 West and 1700 South.
A girl was driving an Oldsmobile Alero westbound on 800 West and because of dense fog did not see the stop sign at the road’s intersection with the highway. She went into the intersection and collided with the rear of the bus, which was carrying more than a dozen children to Adams Elementary School in Logan, police said.
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Sunday, December 15, 2013Area:
Houston, TXA 37-year-old woman died Monday morning in a traffic crash on the Sam Houston Parkway in southeast Houston.
The wreck happened about 5:50 a.m. in the 6000 block of the service road of eastbound South Sam Houston Parkway near Mykawa, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said the woman was sitting a stalled blue Toyota Camry in the eastbound lane of the roadway when a black GMC Sierra pickup, which was traveling at a high rate of speed, hit the car. The woman, who was wearing her seat belt, died at the scene. The pickup driver stopped.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013A motorist who rear-ended and killed another driver on Interstate 580 in Livermore on Thursday was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter, authorities said.
The collision happened shortly after 10 a.m., when Primitivo Garcia, 53, of Livermore failed to slow his Hummer for traffic and rear-ended a Jeep, causing the Jeep to burst into flames in the westbound lanes near North Livermore Avenue, said the CHP.
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Monday, December 9, 2013Area:
San Diego, CAA woman and her small daughter died Tuesday when their SUV smashed into the back of a grocery store delivery truck on north Interstate 5 south of the Orange County line.
Many drivers who witnessed the crash or saw the wreckage right after were distraught, one woman posted on Twitter.
Northbound traffic was halted for nearly an hour. Even after two lanes opened, the backup worsened and extended as far south as Oceanside Boulevard.
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Friday, December 6, 2013Area:
Eugene, ORAn Oregon State Police trooper was injured Friday night when his patrol car was rear-ended as he was wrapping up a traffic stop on Oregon 34 east of Corvallis.
Just after 8 p.m., Trooper Don Rummer was finishing a traffic stop and got back into his patrol car when he saw a car coming from behind lose control on the snow- and ice-covered roadway. The car crashed into the back of the stopped patrol car.
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Sunday, December 1, 2013Area:
Washington, DCA Virginia man died of injuries from a car crash Tuesday after his car collided with another vehicle Monday morning in Manassas.
The crash took place at the intersection of Dumfries Road and Hoadly Road at approximately 5:25 a.m. Investigators said the deceased driver, 57-year-old Donald Stephen Rinker of Strasburg, Va., was driving in the same lane as a tractor-trailer and struck the truck from behind at a stop light.
Rinker was flown to a nearby hospital where he died Tuesday.