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Thursday, December 26, 2013
A 39-year-old Long Island woman has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk with her two young children in the car, police say. Suffolk County police say Laquita Brooks was arrested after losing control of the car and striking a signpost and then a tree Thursday night in Huntington. Police say her 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter were seated in the rear and didn't have proper child restraints. The girl suffered a serious head injury and her brother sustained a minor head injury. The mother wasn't seriously hurt.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

A woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash not far from Homer Friday morning. It happened just after 7:20 a.m. Friday on L Drive near 22 Mile Road in Clarendon Township, according to the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office. The driver of an eastbound SUV lost control and hit a tree. The driver, a 51-year-old Homer woman, was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim's name is being withheld pending notification of family members. The crash remains under investigation.

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Thursday, December 26, 2013
San Diego police were looking Friday for a hit-and-run driver who struck two women on a morning walk in University City. The women were walking along Stresemann Street, near Governor Drive, about 6 a.m. when they passed a parked older-model red pickup, police said. Moments later, the truck struck them from behind and the driver kept going. Paramedics took the women to two hospitals. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known. Police said the pickup might be a Toyota and may have damage to the front.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
A Memphis driver was rushed to the hospital after colliding with a train Friday morning. The accident happened at the railroad crossing on Hollywood Street, near Liberty Bowl Stadium. Witnesses say the driver hesitated, then decided to drive over the tracks. That is when he was hit by the train. The impact of the collision pushed the car about 100 yards.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
A 19-year-old driver had to be rescued after his car went off a cliff and plunged into the ocean in Palos Verdes. The incident happened around 2 a.m. Friday on the 1300 block of Paseo del Mar. Responding officers said they could hear someone calling for help, so rescue crews from the fire department were called to the scene. The 19-year-old male victim was pulled from the car and airlifed to a hospital in Torrance with serious injuries.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Two men died in a head-on collision on N.C. 98 in Durham County on Friday morning, and another has been charged with driving while impaired and two counts of felony death by motor vehicle, the Highway Patrol says. The victims have been identified as Jorge Avalar and his brother, Andreas Avalar, of Durham, according to a statement by the Highway Patrol.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Investigators say a driver is charged with alleged DUI following a three-vehicle chain reaction crash early Friday morning. It happened shortly after 12 a.m. at the unit block of East Sharpnack Street in Mount Airy. According to police, the suspect tried to blend in with a crowd that had formed around the accident. He suffered minor injuries. A 75-year-old man was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center. His condition is unknown at this time. Another man suffered a broken arm. The accident remains under investigation.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The motorcyclist killed in a collision in the northwest valley Thursday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as Mark Erik Walwyn, of North Las Vegas.

Malwyn was riding his motorcycle fast in the left travel lane of Craig Road near Jadestone Avenue when he collided with a 2008 Honda Accord making a left turn in front of him just before 2 p.m., according to Las Vegas police.

The 43-year-old was thrown from his motorcycle and slid to a stop several hundred feet from the crash site, police said.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Southington Police have identified the man killed in a one car crash Thursday afternoon.

Police say that William Mazo, 19, of Middlefield, was driving a Chevy Avalanche on Meriden Ave. just before 3 p.m. when the SUV crossed over the double yellow line.

The SUV left the roadway and traveled for several hundred feet before colliding with a tree.

Mazo was pronounced dead at the scene. David Lanning, 20, also of Middlefield, was a passenger in the car. Lanning was trasported to Hartford Hospital by Lifestar.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A mother and her three young daughters were hurt, two of them seriously, after their SUV crashed into a utility pole in Orange County Thursday evening, police say.

The SUV went down a hill and crashed into the pole outside a supermarket parking lot on Tower Drive in Wallkill at about 8 p.m., according to State Police. It's not clear what caused the crash.

The mother and her 5-year-old daughter in the front seat were taken by ambulance to Orange Regional Medical Center, police said.