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Friday, April 18, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYOne 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.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014Area:
Columbus, GAA motorcyclist crashed after a high speed chase with authorities in East Alabama, according to the Lee County sheriff.
Officials say the chase began when the motorcyclist was speeding and deputies attempted to pull him over at the intersection of Lee Road 212 and Lee Road 240 in Lee County.
Officials say the man, later identified as Travis Cooley, 23, then sped off in the wrong direction on Highway 431. The chase ended in a crash at Knowles Road and 5th Street in Russell County.
The motorcyclist was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014Area:
Jacksonville, FLThree people sustained serious injuries after a crash in Clay County, where the Florida High Patrol said one driver was traveling on the wrong side of the road. According to an FHP report, the crash happened Wednesday around 9:45 p.m.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014Area:
New York, NYA 32-year-old man was in critical condition after his car overturned in Bushwick early Wednesday morning, police said.
The man was driving the wrong way, northbound, on Central Ave. at 4:38 a.m. when he attempted to make a hard left turn onto George St., police said.
The driver, who police did not immediately identify, was thrown from his silver Mazda as the car flipped onto its side, police said.
"He was lying on the ground, they were doing CPR a witness said. They were working on him for a long time. He was shaking and not moving besides that."
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Monday, April 14, 2014Ford was killed late Tuesday when his Ford Mustang was struck head-on by a driver traveling the wrong direction on U.S. 131. Ford was pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver of the vehicle that struck him, 29-year-old Jeremy Smeltzer, of Portage, was air-lifted from the crash site to Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo where he later died. The lone passenger in Ford’s vehicle during the night of the crash, Megan Covey, 26, of Wayland, is currently in “good” condition, according to Bronson Methodist Hospital.
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Monday, April 14, 2014Two women from Oklahoma who were killed in a fiery crash on the Kansas Turnpike in south Wichita on Tuesday night have been identified, according to the Kansas Turnpike Authority.
Lori Uchiyama, 38, of Blackwell and her passenger, 33-year-old Elizabeth Goodno of Ponca City, were driving north on the turnpike at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday when their Pontiac G-6 was hit by a Ford F-150 south of the exit for 47th Street South. Uchiyama and Goodno died at the scene.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014A man who crashed his car into a house Thursday evening is accused of driving the wrong way down another street minutes earlier — all while being “extremely impaired.”
Burlington police were searching for the 1994 Honda Accord driven by Mario O’Keith Strayhorn, 22, of Roslyn Drive, after it struck another car while going the wrong way down Fisher Street.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014Area:
Honolulu, HIA wrong-way driver is being blamed for a crash in downtown Honolulu.
The accident happened just before 3:45 a.m. Thursday near the intersection of South King and Bethel Streets.
Honolulu police say the pickup truck was going Ewa-bound on South King when it crashed into a sedan driving in the right direction into town.
The impact sent the sedan crashing into a pillar.
No serious injuries were reported.
The driver of the truck was arrested at the scene.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014Area:
Atlanta, GAA drunk, wrong-way driver did not stop until she caused a head-on collision Thursday morning. The accident occurred at the Downtown Connector ramp to I-20. The driver of the car, Monica Arrington, 38, went to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment of her injuries. Arrington was charged with DUI, reckless driving and driving on the wrong side of the road.
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Sunday, April 6, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA driver who was allegedly drunk and driving the wrong way on Interstate 355 injured multiple people in a crash Monday night.
About 8 p.m., the driver was heading south on northbound I-355 lanes near 143rd Street near southwest suburban Lockport when the vehicle struck another head on, Illinois State said.
The driver of the second vehicle was taken to a hospital for a broken leg, Pilgrim said. There were also an unspecified number of children in that vehicle with minor injuries, police said.