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Wednesday, April 23, 2014Area:
Columbus, OHTwo people were injured in a helicopter crash in the area of Welch and Neel roads near the Union/Delaware county line Thursday afternoon.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to the scene where a 2006 Rotorway International EXEC 162F helicopter crashed at about 12:45 p.m. Thursday.
The crash triggered a fire of dried cornstalk clippings that spread across nearly three acres before being extinguished by local firefighters.
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Sunday, April 20, 2014Area:
Boston, MAWitnesses to a crash on Interstate 95 pulled a woman from a burning pickup truck Monday afternoon, state police said.
Amy Strong, 20, of Hampton was driving on I-95 when her 2008 Ford Ranger left the road, struck construction equipment and caught fire around 12:25 p.m., police said.
Witnesses smashed out the rear window of the truck and pulled Strong from the fiery wreck, police said.
Strong was taken to Portsmouth Regional Hospital with serious injuries.
Police are investigating the crash.
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Monday, April 14, 2014Two women from Oklahoma who were killed in a fiery crash on the Kansas Turnpike in south Wichita on Tuesday night have been identified, according to the Kansas Turnpike Authority.
Lori Uchiyama, 38, of Blackwell and her passenger, 33-year-old Elizabeth Goodno of Ponca City, were driving north on the turnpike at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday when their Pontiac G-6 was hit by a Ford F-150 south of the exit for 47th Street South. Uchiyama and Goodno died at the scene.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA man is dead after he crashed during a high-speed police chase Wednesday morning in northwest Indiana.
He has been identified as Nicholas B. Moore, 26, of Gary, Ind., according to a release from the Lake County Coroner's office.
Merrillville police were chasing Moore after he carjacked a black Mercedes sedan shortly after 10 a.m., officers at the scene said.
Moore drove north into Gary, where police followed him onto Georgia Street and then north to Ridge Road (U.S. 6), where Merrillville police said they abandoned the pursuit.
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Sunday, March 23, 2014Area:
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TXDenton Police on Monday released the names of the people involved in a head-on crash that left one person dead and two others critically hurt.
The deceased was identified as 27-year-old Tessa Butler from Aubrey. She was killed when the Mazda in which she was a passenger was struck by a pickup truck driven by 21-year-old Hector Soto from Garland. The driver of the Mazda, Roger Bryant, age 49, from Denton remains hospitalized at Medical Center of Plano.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014Area:
Indianapolis, INMorgan County officials have identified the man killed in a fiery crash early Thursday at North Bethesda Road and Ind. 42.
Lawrence A. Illg, 56, Mooresville, was identified through dental records, according to a release from the Morgan County Sheriff's Department.
The one-vehicle accident happened shortly after 5 a.m. in the 11600 block of North Bethesda Road. Col. Terry Keith, chief deputy for the Sheriff's Department, said the pickup crashed into a tree.
The truck was engulfed in flames when fire crews arrived, a dispatcher said.
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Saturday, March 15, 2014Area:
Trenton-NJA New Jersey State Police trooper was one of three people injured in a crash on Sunday morning along the Garden State Parkway.
The crash happened around 8:30 a.m. near mile marker 65.1 in Stafford.
Investigators say the trooper had stopped a vehicle.
That's when another car hit the trooper's vehicle, causing it to hit the car he stopped.
One of the cars caught fire, police say.
Two civilians involved in the crash were flown to Atlantic City Trauma Center.
The trooper was also taken to the hospital for minor injuries.
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Friday, March 14, 2014Area:
New Orleans, LAA man died after his motorcycle burst into flames in an accident Saturday night in Marrero.
At 5:38 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to a motorcycle accident at the intersection of Silverlily Lane and Fourth Street.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said the driver of a 2007 Suzuki motorcycle, who was identified as 28-year-old Mario Ginorio of Westwego, was traveling eastbound on Fourth Street when the accident occurred.
Ginorio's motorcycle struck a 2006 Ford box truck, which was being driven by 47-year-old Patrick Derrick Lee of Harvey, investigators said.
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Saturday, March 8, 2014Area:
Washington, DCTwo people were injured, one seriously, when a tractor trailer and a passenger car crashed on I-95 Sunday night, flipping the 18-wheeler on its side and setting it on fire.
All southbound lanes of I-95 were closed in the area of Brooklyn Bridge Road in Laurel, near the Howard County-Prince George's County line, according to police.
Two patients were transported for treatment, one to a local hospital with minor injuries, one to a trauma center with serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
The tractor trailer was carrying produce, police said.
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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.