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One person is dead after a Jeep collided with a barrier and rolled over.
It happened just after 5 a.m. Sunday in the northbound lanes of Interstate – 25 between E-470 and Highway 7.
State troopers say the Jeep Wrangler collided with the concrete barrier and rolled onto its side.
A 19-year-old passenger in the Jeep, Marysol Tarango, was thrown from the vehicle.
Two vehicles then struck her and she died on the scene.
A Milwaukee County Sheriff's deputy responding to a crash on I-94 was injured when a driver behind him lost control around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the sheriff's department.
The deputy, with 16 years on the force, was treated at a hospital for back and neck pain, according to a news release, which does not name the deputy or the hospital.
A parolee wanted for a traffic offense led law enforcement on a car chase Sunday through La Mesa and El Cajon until his vehicle crashed into two others, and he tried to run off with a female passenger, police said.
A La Mesa police tried to pull over Sean Bartelson, 34, whom they recognized as a known subject on parole, shortly after 8 a.m. for an unspecified traffic violation at El Cajon Boulevard and Baltimore Drive, said a La Mesa police Lt. in a statement.
Three police officers were injured while investigating a car crash on Interstate 10, New Orleans police.
According to preliminary reports, the accident happened on I-10 near the Esplanade exit about 2 a.m.
Police said the officers were standing outside their cars when a car being driven by Percy Smith, 34, crashed into them, according to a NOPD spokesman.
The three officers - who were all on duty at the time of the accident - were brought to an area hospital where they were treated for minor injuries.
A woman crashed a car into two pillars at a fire station near Spring Valley, injuring her female passenger, a Cal Fire San Diego spokesman said Sunday.
The crash occurred at 10 p.m. Saturday at San Miguel Fire District Station 16 at 905 Gillespie Drive, said a Cal Fire-San Diego County Fire Authority Battalion Chief.
One pillar was destroyed and another was damaged, he said. No firefighters were injured. The damage did not require firefighters to leave the building.
A woman was found dead Sunday in a car that went off state Route 67 north of Lakeside, authorities said.
The crash was on SR-67, about 200 yards south of Lazy Acres Drive, about a half mile south of the Scripps Poway Parkway intersection.
It was reported at 7:18 a.m., however California Highway Patrol officials said a witness who heard the crash said it occurred about 12:30 a.m.
The vehicle, a black Honda sedan, reportedly went over the side of the road.
The driver was declared dead at the scene, a Heartland Fire & Rescue dispatcher said.
A woman who survived a car crash in north Houston was killed in another accident moments after the initial crash, according to witnesses.
The first accident happened around 2 a.m. Sunday on the North Loop near the North Freeway. Police said the woman was taking the exit ramp when she lost control of her car and crashed into a barricade.
Then for some reason, police said the driver got out of her car and stood on the freeway.
A 27-year-old man was hit and killed at Bell Road and 19th Avenue early Sunday morning, police said.
The Phoenix Police Department said the man was walking across Bell Road northbound in the cross walk against the "Don't Walk" signal, when he was hit by a 1993 Lincoln Mark 8.
The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Lincoln was evaluated and showed no signs of impairment.
Two people were killed early Sunday in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 98 North in Lakeland.
The incident occurred at approximately 3:15 a.m. on a two-lane stretch between Rockridge and Socrum Loop roads.
According to a Polk County Sheriff’s Office report a 2006 Toyota Scion driven by 19-year-old Eric Rocco Russo of Lakeland was traveling south approaching the intersection of Big Cypress Blvd.