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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
San Diego, CAA motorist suffered major injuries in a two-vehicle crash Thursday near Barona, authorities said.
A white Mazda sedan and a Chevrolet truck collided shortly before 7 a.m. at the intersection of Wildcat Canyon and Featherstone Canyon roads, according to the California Highway Patrol.
One person was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital following the crash, a Heartland Fire & Rescue dispatcher said.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Philadelphia, PANewark Police are investigating a serious six-car crash that left an eight-month-old girl hospitalized in critical condition Thursday.
It happened around 11 a.m. on Capital Trail at the Windy Hills Bridge.
Police say a southbound Dodge Neon operated by a 36-year-old woman, with two small children inside, slid on the icy roadway and into the path of a northbound Honda Accord, operated by a 75-year-old man with a 75-year-old female passenger. The Neon was struck on the passenger side by the front of the Accord.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013A grandmother was killed and her two young grandchildren were hospitalized after they were struck by a car as she pushed them across the street in a stroller in Sunrise on Christmas night.
The incident happened as the woman was crossing Pine Island Road at Sunset Strip, a Sunrise Police spokesman said.
One of the children was taken to Broward Health Medical Center by air rescue and the grandmother and other child were taken by an ambulance, police said. The grandmother, later identified as 61-year-old Li Fang Dong, died at the hospital.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Fort Lauderdale Police said they are looking for a driver responsible for critically injuring a pedestrian in a hit-and-run incident early Thursday.
The crash occurred on the 600 block of West Broward Boulevard at about 12:27 a.m. Investigators said Daniel Francis Driscoll, 53, was trying to cross the boulevard, but he was not in a crosswalk at the time, police said.
Driscoll was hit by the driver’s side view mirror and fell to the ground.
Police believe the driver left the scene driving westbound on West Broward Boulevard and was driving a 1996-2000 model four-door green Honda Civic.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA grandson of retired Florida State University football coach Bobby Bowden was among two young men killed Thursday in a traffic crash in Polk County, the Sheriff's Office said.
Investigators said the driver, Rafael Fernandes De Aguiar Valim, 25, and passenger Taylor Jeffrey Bowden, 23, both of Winter Haven, and Robert Lewis Edwards, 22, of Boca Raton were at a bar in Winter Haven on Christmas night prior to the 2 a.m. crash in Winter Haven.
Edwards, the back-seat passenger, survived the crash into a ditch or creek filled with 5 feet of water.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
New York, NYThe first hit-and-run happened in Queens at around 4:30 a.m. when Enrique Clemente-Ovando, 29, of Elmhurst, was struck and killed about a mile from his home, according to cops. The driver fled the crash in a beige Toyota Camry with Pennsylvania plates, police said. Cops said the car was traveling east on Astoria Blvd. when it struck Clemente-Ovando, who was attempting to cross the road near 31st Ave.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Two teenagers were injured after a car hit the dirt bike they were riding Wednesday in Miramar.
The 13 and 16-year-old boys were traveling southbound on Southwest 66th Terrace and turned left onto Southwest 28th Street when they collided with a white Nissan Altima that was traveling westbound on Southwest 28th Street, according to Miramar Police.
The unidentified female driver stayed on scene and the teens were transported to Memorial Regional Hospital where they were treated for non-life threatening injuries, police said.
The details of the accident are still under investigation.
Miranda Rose, 17, and Michael Bronzburg, 46, dead in small plane crash in Adams County, Pennsylvania
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013At least one person died in the crash of a small plane into a rural south-central Pennsylvania field, state police said.
Police said the crash early Thursday scattered debris over a quarter-mile area north of Gettysburg.
He said the plane was destroyed, but there didn't appear to have been a fire or explosion.
Hicks said neighbors in the Biglerville area heard what sounded like engine trouble and then the noise of the crash at about 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Nashville, TNA teenager has died and two other people were injured after a crash early Thursday in Nashville that followed a short police pursuit.
One person was killed and two others were injured after a crash involving a stolen vehicle in Nashville.
Police say a Toyota Camry that had been reported stolen and identified from several armed robberies was spotted by officers who attempted to initiate a traffic stop.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013A light-rail train struck and killed a woman in San Jose early Christmas morning, officials at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority said.
The train was northbound on A light-rail train struck and killed a woman in San Jose early Christmas morning, officials at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority said.
The train was northbound on Highway 87 south of the city when it hit the woman at about 1:30 a.m., about 100 to 200 yards from the Curtner Light Rail Station, officials said.