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Wednesday, April 23, 2014Area:
Oklahoma City, OKA man is in critical condition and a woman is arrested after an early-morning car wreck in Moore, police said. Officers rushed to a neighborhood off North Janeway Avenue and NW 2nd Street a little after 4 a.m. to find a man seriously injured. Police say the man was rolling a tire in the middle of the road when he was hit, and was thrown 200 feet. The victim's friend says he was visiting his girlfriend and helping to fix a car. According to police, alcohol was involved. Police say a female passenger fought with officers and slipped out of her handcuffs. She was arrested on multiple charges.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014Area:
Nashville, TNA child has died and his mother was hurt in a hit-and-run collision allegedly caused by a driver under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the westbound lanes of Interstate 24 in Smyrna on Thursday afternoon.
The crash was reported about 1:30 p.m. at mile marker 66, near Sam Ridley Parkway. The child, his mother and his sister were outside their car changing a flat tire when they were struck.
The suspected driver, identified as 33-year-old Tina L. Wilson, kept driving in a Chevrolet Cavalier after the collision, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLTampa Fire Rescue officials say two people were hurt in a two-car crash on Interstate 4 Thursday night.
It happened near I-4 eastbound and North 22nd Street. Officials say one car, with a man and woman inside, was stopped on the side of the interstate with a flat tire.
Investigators say a second car crashed in to the back of the stopped car, and one of the cars caught fire.
Tampa Fire Rescue officials say one person in the stopped car was taken to Tampa General Hospital with serious injuries. The second person in that car was not hurt.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014Area:
Atlanta, GAPolice are investigating a hit-and-run crash that killed one man and critically injured another man as they helped change a tire on a metro Atlanta freeway.
DeKalb County police say two women had called the men to help them change the tire when the men were struck by a pickup. It happened around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday on westbound Interstate 20, near Panola Road.
Police said a pickup truck they said was not maintaining its lane struck the men and kept driving. A second car followed the truck until the driver was pulled over.
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Monday, December 23, 2013Area:
Charlotte, NCThe N.C. Highway Patrol says an Alabama couple was killed as they changed a tire on Interstate 40.
The patrol identified the victims as George and Carol Kittle, of Hollytree, Ala. Both were 66.
The patrol said the couple was almost done changing the tire when a truck sideswiped their truck and struck them Tuesday morning, throwing them 100 feet.
The accident occurred in the westbound lanes of I-40 at the Catawba County line.
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Friday, December 13, 2013Area:
Knoxville, TNAn accident along Highway 411 Saturday night leaves one woman dead and three children and another person injured.
According to the Blount County Sheriff's Office, authorities received a call around 6:44 p.m. near Ridgeway Trail on Highway 411.
Deputies say Amanda Campbell, 29, of Maryville was traveling southbound on U.S. Highway 411 in a 1996 GMC Jimmy when she stopped in the fast lane due to a flat tire.
Campbell then left the vehicle to try and flag down someone for assistance.