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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A duo accused of stealing a car and crashing it in North Nashville in the wee hours of this morning -- killing a backseat passenger -- face a variety of charges and may have links to an earlier car theft.

Driver Derrick Thomas, 16, of Torbett Street, was treated and released from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He's being booked into juvenile detention and will be facing charges of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, evading police, driving without a license, curfew violation and auto theft.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A 52-year-old Maryland man was killed when the vehicle he was in was struck by a tractor-trailer in Mount Holly Springs Thursday morning.

John Mark Houser's vehicle was hit just before 6 a.m. at Routes 34 and 94, according to the Cumberland County Coroner's office.

Houser, of Westminster, Md., was the only person in the vehicle, according to the coroner's office. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Two men were killed after the car they were traveling in lost control and struck a tree in Coral Springs.

Authorities said they found a 1995 Eagle Talon wrapped around a large tree on the 11900 Block of Lakeview Drive at about 5:30 a.m.

The car was traveling eastbound on Lakeview Drive when it lost control around a curve and left the roadway, Coral Springs Police said.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Three teens were injured in a two-car crash late Thursday.

The Butler County Sheriff's Office said Ashley Spaulding, 17, of Trenton, was driving a 1998 Pontiac Sunfire southbound on Jacksonburg Road just south of Taylor School Road at around 10 p.m.

Deputies said that as Spaulding attempted to pass a vehicle, she apparently lost control, and her car began swerving, eventually sliding sideways across both lanes of traffic.

The Sunfire then collided with a northbound 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, driven by Dalton Williams, 19, of Trenton.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
A 15-year-old boy driving a moped was killed in a hit-and-run crash in the northeast valley Thursday night. Alex Martinez and a 20-year-old male passenger were traveling west on Meikle Lane about 8:20 p.m. when the accident occurred. They were crossing Ringe Lane, near Nellis and Lake Mead boulevards where they were struck by an unknown vehicle, according to Las Vegas police. Both Martinez and the passenger on the moped were thrown onto the road. The operator of the vehicle that hit them did not stop or call the police.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
A man was fatally struck by a van Thursday afternoon on the South Side in the Englewood neighborhood. Jeffrey Bond, 65, was struck by a "maroon or brown van" as he stepped onto 59th Street near a bus stop about 4:40 p.m., according to a police News Affairs Officer and the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. The driver of the vehicle then fled the scene, police said. Bond, of the 5800 block of South Carpenter Street, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he was pronounced dead at 5:23 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
One person was killed and three others injured in a head-on crash in Williamstown that occurred during a snowfall. Police say the woman who died in the Thursday crash on Route 7 was a passenger in a Hyundai Elantra that collided with a Buick Lucerne. She was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield where she was pronounced dead. Each vehicle had two occupants. Three other people were taken to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield with injuries that were serious but did not appear life-threatening. No names were released.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
A driver was arrested Thursday night for allegedly slamming into a car, sending it and four passengers plunging into a flood control channel, then driving away from the crash, authorities said. The hit-and-run collision happened about 7:40 p.m. near Parthenia Street and Noble Avenue in North Hills, according to a watch commander with the Los Angeles Police Department Valley Traffic Division.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
A 6-year-old girl died Thursday afternoon after she was run over by a snack truck on the Southwest Side. San Antonio Police said the child, identified by family as April Nicole Soliz, had been buying candy with one of her friends, a 10-year-old girl, from the truck around 2:30 p.m. in the 5300 block of Prairie Flower Drive. Lopez said as the truck driver, a 50-year-old man, was trying to turn around on a dead-end street, Soliz jumped onto the vehicle's rear bumper. Police said the driver did not know she had jumped onto the vehicle.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
A portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is shut down in snowy eastern Pennsylvania after a pileup involving what appears to be a couple dozen vehicles. Turnpike officials say all lanes westbound were shut down because of the accident between the Morgantown and Reading exits in Berks County. There was no immediate word on injuries in the crash. Also, an accident has shut down Interstate 78 eastbound in Berks County between mileposts 35 and 40 in Lenhartsville.