Advanced Search
Date:
Sunday, March 16, 2014Area:
Albany, GAAuthorities in south Georgia say speed was a factor in the death of a trucker involved in a rollover crash.
Ben Hill County Sheriff Bobby McLemore stated that 59-year-old Ricky Music, of Alma, died Monday morning when his truck loaded with logs overturned on Bowen's Mill Highway in Fitzgerald.
Authorities say the man's truck fell into a pond upside down after it overturned on the road.
Fitzgerald is about 65 miles east of Albany.
Date:
Sunday, March 9, 2014Area:
New York, NYNine people were hospitalized, three injured seriously, when a small school bus overturned in Brooklyn Monday afternoon. It happened at Marcy avenue and Halsey street in the Bedford Stuyvesant section, where the bus was reportedly hit by a taxi. Six students were on the bus and they were taken to Kings County Hospital as a precaution. Three adults were transported to area hospitals with serious but non-life threatening injuries. An investigation is underway into the cause of the accident.
Date:
Saturday, March 8, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA man was killed early Sunday morning in Scottsdale after he was struck by a cab while crossing the street, police said.
The 45-year-old man had left a restaurant on Scottsdale Road north of McDowell Road and was crossing Scottsdale mid-block, not in a crosswalk, when he was hit by a Yellow Cab that was driving north, a Scottsdale Police Department spokesman said.
The man was taken to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center where he died, police said.
Date:
Sunday, March 2, 2014Area:
Hartford & New Haven, CTAn East Hartford teen is dead after a Honda struck a sanitation truck on Silver Lane in East Hartford on Monday.
The crash happened on Silver Lane near the intersection with Holland Lane around 11 a.m. Monday and police identified the driver of the car as Leonel Colon, 17, of East Hartford.
On Monday, police said the car was stolen and the driver lost control.
Officers pursued the Honda on Burnside Avenue earlier Monday morning, but the chase was called off and was not connected to the crash, according to police.