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A young couple died Friday afternoon when they were ejected from a Smart car after it was struck by a Chevrolet Camaro, then a Chevrolet Cavalier on U.S. Highway 441, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A 22-year-old driver suspected of being under the influence of drugs and alcohol was arrested early Wednesday morning in a crash on the Rincon Indian Reservation. The man was headed east on North Paradise Creek Lane near Valley Center Road about 6:15 a.m. in a Honda Civic when he drifted into westbound lanes and sideswiped a Toyota Tacoma, a California Highway Patrol Officer said. The man told officers he had just taken off his seat belt and was reaching for his iPod. He said the collision sent the Honda driver, Cory Allen of Valley Center, into the windshield.

A 26-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash Sunday morning in Gresham, police said. Just after 7 a.m., Nichole Anstaett rolled her car after clipping the back of another car that was turning on Southeast Orient Drive near Southeast Salquist Road, said a spokesman with the Gresham Police Department. Anstaett was not wearing a seatbelt and was partially ejected from her car. She was pronounced dead at the scene. No one else was injured in the crash. Gresham police's crash team was continuing its investigation. Police have not said if speed or alcohol were factors in the crash.

A Raceland man died Wednesday evening in Lafourche Parish when his vehicle struck a tree off Louisiana Highway 182 near Bayou Folse Road. Percy Hills, 44, was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from his 2008 Chevrolet Malibu around 9 p.m. after failing to navigate a curve in the road. Louisiana State Police are investigating the accident and toxicology tests are pending. Paramedics transported Hills to St. Anne General Hospital, in Raceland, where he died of his injuries.