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Friday, February 14, 2014Orren G. Clark is 97, and says he’s often mistaken for being in his 60s. His driving record is clean.
He said he can explain why he backed his car into the side of a McDonald’s restaurant on 28th Street SE on Saturday.
“I put it in reverse, and I stepped on there (the gas pedal), and I didn’t pull my foot off because of being fatigued,” he told 24 Hour News 8 on Tuesday.
Clark said the crash, which left a gaping hole in the restaurant, had nothing to do with his age.
In fact, he said, once his car is fixed, he plans to return to the road. He said he isn’t like some others his age.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014Area:
Biloxi-Gulfport, MSAuthorities say an 83-year-old man died after the four-wheeler he was driving collided with a vehicle.
A spokeswoman for the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, stated that the accident happened about 4:45 p.m. Thursday at Chatsworth and Forts Lake roads.
Coroner Vicki Broadus identified the victim as Robert Ladnier Jr. of the Forts Lake community.
She said Ladnier died of a closed-head injury from blunt-force trauma.
The accident remains under investigation.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014Area:
Denver, COThe pilot of an experimental plane died when he crashed in Boulder County.
A witness called 911 Wednesday afternoon and said a plane had crashed in a field and creek off 109th Street between Lookout and Jasper roads," Boulder County officials said in a news release.
Emergency personnel said they found a Smyth Sidewinder experimental aircraft had crashed.
The sole occupant, 66-year old David Biesemeier of Loveland, died.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 70-year-old Marilla man who left home on a snowmobile Thursday morning was found dead near his crashed snowmobile in the Town of Sheldon early this morning after an extensive search that included deputies, firefighters and members of a snowmobile club.
According to a press release from the Wyoming County Sheriff’s Office, Wesley J. Kless of E. Blood Road, Marilla went out for a ride on his snowmobile at 11 a.m. Thursday and was reported missing by a concerned family member some time later.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA 60-year-old pedestrian was killed early Monday after a truck struck him as he was crossing a street in Glendale, authorities said.
The accident occurred near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road just after 7 a.m. when an 81-year-old Glendale man driving a pickup truck hit a pedestrian who was jay walking, according the Glendale Fire Department.
The pedestrian, a 60-year-old man whose name has not been released until family can be notified, was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Speed and impairment were not factors in the crash.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014Area:
Pittsburgh, PAA husband and wife from Hanover died Sunday evening when a backhoe operated by a teenager drove into the path of their car on Route 116 in Heidelberg Township, York County, Southwestern Regional Police said.
Police identified the victims Monday as Roy Kline Jr., 86, and his 85-year-old wife, Lorraine. They did not identify the 17-year-old who was operating the backhoe and who lives near the scene of the accident. The investigation of the crash is continuing, police said.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Cincinnati, OHA woman died in a crash in Adams County on Wednesday evening.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said Phyllis A. Walls, 68, of West Union, was traveling southbound on Brush Creek Road at about 7:30 p.m. when she struck an oncoming pickup head on.
Walls was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Adams County coroner.
The pickup driver, Mary A. Channell, 69, of Manchester, was airlifted to UC Medical Center for treatment.
The crash remains under investigation.
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Saturday, December 28, 2013Area:
Jacksonville, FLA 3-year-old died in a crash in Putnam County on Sunday morning.
It happened on U.S. 17 at Clifton Road near Crescent City around 9 a.m.
Troopers said Gerard Buchan, 74, was driving a 1999 Ford Explorer westbound on Clifton Rd. when he stopped at a stop sign. When he started moving again, he didn't yield to a Dodge Caravan, according to the Florida Highway Patrol report. The vehicles crashed in the intersection.
Ashley Thomas, 29, was driving the Caravan and sustained serious injuries.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013Area:
Philadelphia, PAInvestigators say a driver is charged with alleged DUI following a three-vehicle chain reaction crash early Friday morning.
It happened shortly after 12 a.m. at the unit block of East Sharpnack Street in Mount Airy.
According to police, the suspect tried to blend in with a crowd that had formed around the accident. He suffered minor injuries.
A 75-year-old man was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center. His condition is unknown at this time.
Another man suffered a broken arm.
The accident remains under investigation.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013A wrong-way crash on State Road 528 has lanes closed and traffic backed up for five miles in Brevard County.
The crash was reported on westbound SR 528 at mile marker 36 just after 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
The Florida Highway Patrol said a vehicle, driven by an elderly woman, was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes, sideswiped one car and and then turned around to travel westbound to the Narcossee Road exit.
The car the woman crashed into hit another vehicle, which ignited. The driver of that vehicle suffered minor injuries.