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Dorothy Hershman, 75, killed, one man and one woman seriously injured after a car crosses the center line and collides head-on with an oncoming vehicle on Library Avenue in Newark, Delaware

Date:

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Area:

Police say a 75-year-old woman is dead after a fatal crash car crash in Newark. Newark Police say it happened Friday evening at about 10:15 on Library Avenue just north of Farm Lane. Police say a preliminary investigation found that a 75-year-old Dorothy Hershman of Newark was driving southbound on Library Avenue when for an unknown reason she crossed the road's center line and ran head-on into a car traveling northbound. Hershman was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Peter Linek, 55, and Ernest Lee Holmes, 91, killed, and 13 bus riders injured after a car traveling the wrong way collides with a SUV and a Greyhound bus on Interstate 75 near Jasper, Florida

Date:

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Area:

Tallahassee, FL-Thomasville, GA

Two drivers died when a 91-year-old man driving the wrong way on Interstate 75 near the Florida-Georgia border late Friday night stuck an SUV and a Greyhound bus. Troopers said a 91-year-old driver was diving south in the northbound lanes when they ran head-on into the bus and a Ford Expedition at mile marker 449, about 10 miles south of Jasper in Hamilton County. The car's driver, Ernest Lee Holmes, 91, from High Springs, Florida was killed in the accident, according to the FHP report. Peter Linek, 55, of Ormond Beach, who was driving the SUV also died.

Cynamon A. Warden, 21, killed, after her ATV collides with a car, driven by Margaret Harris, 73, after the ATV disregards a traffic signal at the intersection of Louisiana Highways 450 and 16 in Franklinton.

Date:

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Area:

New Orleans, LA

A Franklinton woman riding an ATV died Wednesday after she disregarded a traffic signal and was struck by a car, State Police said. The crash occurred at the intersection of Louisiana highways 450 and 16, State Police said. Cynamon A. Warden, 21, died of injuries at Interim LSU Hospital in New Orleans. State Police said the collision happened around 12:55 p.m. Wednesday after Warden, who was driving the Kawasaki four-wheeler on Louisiana 450, disregarded a flashing stop sign and red signal light as she crossed Louisiana 16.

Duwane Kramer, 78, killed after he suffers a medical emergency and crashes his vehicle into the median wall on U.S. 52 near Rochester, Minnesota

Date:

Monday, March 31, 2014

Area:

Rochester, MN-Mason City, IA-Austin, MN

A 78-year-old man reportedly suffered severe symptoms from a medical condition while driving on U.S. 52 in Rochester on Monday, causing him to crash into a median wall. Duwane Kramer, of Rochester, was northbound when he "suffered a medical condition" and veered off the highway near Civic Center Drive Northwest, according to a Minnesota State Patrol report. Kramer died at the scene. The crash was reported at 5:45 p.m. Rochester firefighters and police, Olmsted County sheriff's deputies and a Gold Cross Ambulance crew responded to the crash.

69-year-old man seriously injured after he loses control of his ATV near M-40 and is ejected from the vehicle in Bloomington Township, Michigan

Date:

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Area:

Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, MI

A man was airlifted to the hospital Monday morning after he fell off an ATV and hit his head, according to the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Department. It happened just before 10 a.m. Monday in a cornfield near the 12000 block of M-40 in Bloomingdale Township, northwest of Paw Paw.

James Sybert, 25, and Mary Burke, 82, killed after wrong-way crash on Highway 21 in Jefferson County, Missouri

Date:

Monday, March 24, 2014

Area:

St. Louis, MO

Two people, including a wrong-way driver, were killed in a head-on collision in Jefferson County on Tuesday. According to police, a driver exited Highway M and got on southbound Highway 21 going north. The driver, identified as 82-year-old Mary Burke, drove the wrong way for several miles before hitting another vehicle at Shady Valley near Imperial around 12:15 p.m. Burke, of St. Louis, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver in the other vehicle, identified as James Sybert, 25, was taken to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Jordan Hale, 8 killed, Jesus “Chewy” Gutiérrez, 6, critically injured after they are struck by a van while skateboarding on Northwest Winn Street in Kansas City, Missouri

Date:

Friday, March 21, 2014

Area:

Kansas City, MO

Heartbroken family members are remembering an eight-year-old Kansas City boy tragically killed while playing outside his home on Saturday. Jordan Hale died after getting hit by a van over the weekend near Northeast Winn and North Bellefontaine. Saturday night Hale’s dreams were suddenly cut short. Police say the second grader and his six-year-old best friend, Jesus “Chewy” Gutiérrez, were riding on their skateboards downhill, outside Hale’s Kansas City home, when a van hit both boys. Hale died instantly. His friend was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries, including head trauma.

72-year-old man killed, 53-year-old, 10-year-old, 7-year-old, injured, after a car failed to yield to another, on State Route 161 in Eatonville.

Date:

Friday, March 21, 2014

Area:

Seattle-Tacoma, WA

One man died and three people were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Eatonville Saturday evening. The collision occurred on SR-161 at Eatonville Cutoff Road East. According to troopers, the crash occurred when the driver of a Saturn failed to yield to the driver of a Hyundai Elantra. The 72-year-old driver of the Saturn died in the crash. The 53-year-old driver of the Hyundai and her two passengers, 7 and 10 years old, were injured.

Thomas Crowder killed after rear-ending school bus at the intersection of Preston Highway and Belmont Road near Fort Knox, Kentucky

Date:

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Area:

Louisville, KY

Eleven students on the bus were transported to Jewish Hospital South and released after a wreck that occured at about 6:30 a.m. at Preston Highway and Belmont Road just east of Fort Knox. An 86-year-old man drove into the back of a school bus that had stop to pick up students in Bullitt County. The man later died of his injuries. None of the students suffered serious injuries.

Dorothy Hill, 90, dies of her injuries, after a pickup, driven by a 60-year-old man, failed to yield on East Speedway and North Catalina Avenue, in Tucson, causing a collision with her vehicle.

Date:

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Area:

Tucson, AZ

A 90-year-old woman who was a passenger in a car that was struck by a truck in midtown last month died Tuesday. Dorothy Hill died of complications from her injuries in the March 13 crash that occurred shortly before 11:30 a.m. at East Speedway and North Catalina Avenue, just east of North Columbus Boulevard, said Sgt. Chris Widmer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. A 60-year-old man was driving the 1983 Chevrolet truck north on Catalina, and failed to yield from the stop sign at Speedway, causing the crash with a 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser that was traveling west on Speedway, Widmer said.