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Man killed, woman seriously injured after street racing car crash in Fort Worth, Texas

Date: 
Monday, January 13, 2014
Area: 
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
A man is dead and a woman is injured after a street racing crash in east Fort Worth. The wreck happened just after 11:00 p.m. near the intersection of westbound Interstate-30 and Bridgewood Drive. According to police, the male driver of a vehicle was racing and somehow lost control of his car. His vehicle rolled and flipped over the guardrail, coming to a rest upside down. That driver was pronounced dead at the scene. A female passenger was partially ejected and taken to JPS Hospital in Fort Worth with serious injuries.

Kaitlyn Benson 17, killed and one other 17-year-old girl injured after high-speed crash into pole in Oakland, California

Date: 
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
A teenage girl died and another was injured in a high-speed wreck on an isolated street near the Port of Oakland early Friday morning, an area known for illegal street racing. Police officers responding to reports of an accident just after midnight on the 500 block of Maritime Street found that a vehicle had left the roadway and collided with a pole, officials said. The girls in the vehicle, both 17-year-olds from outside Oakland, were taken to a hospital, where the driver, who has been identified as Kaitlyn Benson, was later pronounced dead.

Andrew Lopez injured, arrested for DUI, after car racing crash injures two others on Sonora and Lincoln Street in Stockton, California

Date: 
Monday, December 30, 2013
Area: 
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA
A man accused of driving under the influence was arrested after crashing into a pole in Stockton’s Seaport District. Andrew Lopez, 23, was arrested for DUI, child endangerment and other traffic-related charges after he crashed while racing with another vehicle, according to Stockton police. He was driving with two juveniles in the area of Sonora and Lincoln Street at around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday when he lost control of his vehicle and hit the pole.

Louis Andrew Guerrero-Sanchez, 17, killed, 2 others injured and taken to hospital after car is involved in street racing accident in Aurora, Colorado

Date: 
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Area: 
Denver, CO
Aurora police are investigating after a case of illegal street racing sent three to the hospital. The incident happened around midnight Sunday on Smith Road and Ensenada. The three people who were sent to the hospital were not part of the street racing. Police believe there were multiple cars street racing westbound down Smith Road when a BMW struck a Honda that was making a turn. All three in the Honda were sent to the hospital.

Brian Benjamin Blaine, 30, killed in crash, may have been racing another vehicle on Franconia-Springfield Parkway in Manassas, Virginia

Date: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Area: 
Washington, DC
Witnesses say the driver killed in a single-vehicle accident in Springfield may have been racing another car at the time. Brian Benjamin Blaine, 30, of Manassas was driving his 2001 Honda S2000 convertible southbound on Franconia-Springfield Parkway just after 11 p.m. Wednesday when he lost control while exiting a curve. Witnesses told police Blaine appeared to be racing a dark colored Infiniti before the crash.

Woman and child injured in street racing accident in Yakima, Washington

Date: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Area: 
Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick, WA

Police say street racing caused a crash in Yakima that injured a woman and her 4-year-old son.

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A woman drag racing causes a crash on North Foothills Drive in Spokane, Washington

Date: 
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Area: 
Spokane, WA

Officers said two Cadillacs were racing on North Foothills Drive east of Division when one of them rammed into a Pathfinder Sunday afternoon. The woman driving the Pathfinder said she was only going about 5 miles per hour when the speeding Cadillac hit her car and forced her off the road. Police said the woman who caused the crash initially got out of her car and ran away, but officers caught up to her and arrested her. She was arrested for driving with a suspended license. Police said she also had two warrants out for her arrest.

Thomas Appleton sentenced to 10 years in death of 18-year-old Samuel Taylor in Sept. 2012 street racing crash in Charlottesville, Virginia

Date: 
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Area: 
Charlottesville, VA

A man convicted of participating in a street race wreck that killed another man will spend a year in prison. Thomas Appleton received a 10-year sentence Wednesday in Albemarle Circuit Court. Judge Cheryl Higgins then suspended nine years of the sentence. Appleton also will lose his driver's license for a year. Higgins says he must then petition the court for the license's reinstatement. Prosecutors say Appleton and 18-year-old Samuel Taylor were racing on Sept. 5, 2012, when their vehicles collided. Taylor's car ran off the road, hit a stump, went airborne and crashed into a tree.