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Nicole Denney, 14, dies in drag racing accident in Hamilton, Ohio

Date: 
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Area: 
Cincinnati, OH
Two teens from Butler County, one 16-years-old and the other 15, were convicted in the death of Nicole Denney, a 14-year-old from West Chester. Denney was riding in a stolen car with the 16-year-old, her boyfriend, when the crash occured. The two teen drivers raced a short distance when Denney's boyfriend crashed near the intersection of Mosley Drive and Cornell Avenue. It took firefighters two hours to cut Denney out of the destroyed car.

31-year-old man and 18-year-old woman, killed after an SUV going the wrong way collides with another SUV on the Greenbelt Highway in Louisville, Kentucky

Date: 
Friday, April 18, 2014
Area: 
Louisville, KY
One driver is dead and another driver is in critical condition after a head-on collision in Pleasure Ridge Park early Saturday morning. According to police, just after 2:30 a.m., a 31-year-old man driving a SUV on the wrong side of the Greenbelt Highway hit another SUV driven by a 17-year-old woman, later identified as Elissa Greenwell, heading south near the intersection with Greenwood Road. A spokeswoman for the Louisville Metro Police Department, said both drivers had to be extricated from their vehicles by Louisville Metro EMS and the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Department.

Kenneth Zarecki, 65, killed, after his tractor flips over, while he was trying to remove a tree, and pinned him, near Mulberry Grove in Bond County.

Date: 
Friday, April 11, 2014
Area: 
Champaign & Springfield-Decatur, IL

A south-central Illinois man has died after a tractor he was driving flipped onto him. Kenneth Zarecki of Mulberry Grove died Saturday. The Fayette County Coroner said Zarecki, 65, was killed instantly. He says Zarecki was using the tractor to remove a tree when the tractor flipped and pinned him. Bowen pronounced Zarecki dead at the scene. The coroner's office is continuing to investigate the accident. Mulberry Grove is a village of about 600 residents in Bond County. It is about 60 miles northeast of St. Louis.

30-year-old driver seriously injured and facing multiple charges after a police pursuit leads to two separate car crashes before her SUV crashes on Avondale Road in Redmond, Washington

Date: 
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA

The only person seriously hurt was the driver who investigators say caused the wreck. Officers said they believe the woman was intoxicated. Dispatchers first started getting calls about her driving an SUV erratically about 6 p.m. The driver continued into Bellevue before she made her way back to Redmond. Police said she hit one car then, then another, after running over spike strips and crashing on Avondale Road. “The 30-year-old driver was actually pinned in the vehicle. She had to be extricated and was taken to Harborview.

Rev. Georgette Wonders, 61, dies of her injuries, after she is trapped between her car door and a building in Kenosha, while trying to retrieve a credit card in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Date: 
Monday, April 7, 2014
Area: 
Milwaukee, WI

A Kenosha congregation is mourning its pastor after she died late last week following a car accident at a McDonald's restaurant. A community memorial service is planned for 6 p.m. Monday at St. Mary's Lutheran Church, 2001 80th St., Kenosha. The Rev. Georgette Wonders was going through the drive-thru at a McDonald's after 11 p.m. Tuesday, The restaurant is a few miles from Bradford Community Church Unitarian Universalist, where she preached.

J.T. Bierdneau, seriously injured after snowmobile accident near Lake Tahoe, California

Date: 
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Area: 
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA
A quick-thinking 9-year-old California boy is credited with saving his father after a snowmobile crash near Lake Tahoe. J.T. Bierdneau was severely injured when his snowmobile trapped his leg over the weekend. After the crash, 9-year-old Bode Bierdneau decided his only choice was to ride alone across miles of snow to get help. He admits being nervous and unsure of which direction to go. Despite having no cellphone reception the fourth grader from Marin County stayed calm, riding until he found someone with an emergency radio. From there he led rescuers to his dad.

Ruth Drage, 54, and Danielle Waldvogel, 18, seriously injured after a two-car head-on crash at an intersection on Highway B in the Town of Dunn, Wisconsin

Date: 
Monday, March 24, 2014
Area: 
Madison, WI
An 18-year-old Oregon woman will be ticketed for her role in a head-on crash Tuesday morning in the Town of Dunn that injured her and another driver. The crash occurred just before 8 a.m. at Highway B at White Oak Trail when Danielle Waldvogel, 18, crossed the centerline and crashed head-on into a vehicle traveling the opposite direction, according to a Dane County sheriff's office news release. The driver of the other car, Ruth Drage, 54, of Middleton had to be extricated from her vehicle by Oregon firefighters, officials said.

Susan Hufford, 53, Sharon Hufford, 74, killed, Randolph Hufford, 54, Donald Hufford, 74, seriously injured, after their car is rear-ended on Highway 12 in Santa Rosa, California

Date: 
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
Two Santa Rosa women on their way to dinner with their husbands were killed Saturday evening by a suspected drunken driver when his pickup rear-ended the sedan they were riding in as it sat in traffic on Highway 12 near Farmers Lane. Susan Hufford, 53, and her mother-in-law, Sharon Hufford, 74, were riding in the rear of the Toyota Camry driven by Randolph Hufford, 54, with his father Donald Hufford, 74, in the front passenger's seat when it was struck from behind by a full-sized GMC Sierra pickup, CHP Sgt. Erik Egide said.

Tractor-trailer driver killed, after his vehicle slides of the Route 9 roadway near Chesterfield, and he is pinned underneath it.

Date: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Area: 
Boston, MA
One person was killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer unit on Route 9 in Chesterfield on Wednesday night. According to authorities, the tractor-trailer slid off the side of the road and into the snow-covered embankment. Officers think the driver tried to get out of the truck, and when they arrived, they found him pinned underneath the vehicle. Rescue crews tried to extricate the driver, but were unsuccessful and he died on scene. The cause of the collision remains under investigation.

11 people, including one child, injured after a 5-vehicle crash on North Lamar Boulevard at 39 1/2 Street in Austin, Texas

Date: 
Friday, March 7, 2014
Area: 
Austin, TX
Eleven people were injured after a five-vehicle collision on North Lamar Boulevard at 39 1/2 Street around 3:30 Saturday afternoon. Several EMS crews responded to the rollover accident. The first reports indicated at least one patient was trapped inside a vehicle. Additional paramedics responded to 39th Street and Medical Parkway for a report of another patient involved in the accident.