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Sunday, March 23, 2014A 63-year-old Newport News man was struck and killed Monday by a van while crossing Mercury Boulevard, a police spokeswoman said.
The accident occurred shortly before 10 p.m. when Peter Cornetta, of the 6000 block of Jefferson Avenue, was struck by a 1998 Ford Windstar while crossing Mercury Boulevard about 200 feet west of Newmarket Drive, a Newport News Police Department spokesman said in an email. The minivan was traveling in the right lane eastbound on Mercury Boulevard, Eley said.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014Newport News Police say a two-vehicle crash along Warwick Boulevard Monday night involved both a utility pole and a house.
A white Dodge van and a Volvo were both traveling north on Warwick Blvd. — the van in the right lane and the Volvo in the left — when the van attempted a left turn onto 64th Street and crashed into the Volvo, police said.
The van then collided with a utility pole and the Volvo crashed into a nearby residence.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014A man has died after being hit by a vehicle along Warwick Boulevard early Friday morning.
A spokeswoman with the Newport News Police Department said the crash occurred just before 2:30 a.m. The driver, 29-year-old Kegan Michael Bilger of Newport News, called police after the incident.
An investigation found the pedestrian was walking on the side of the road from the Ft. Eustis off-ramp onto the southbound lanes of Warwick Boulevard. Bilger was traveling southbound on Warwick.