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Ashley Spaulding, 17, Sierra Lindamood, 17, Dalton Williams, 19, seriously injured in two car crash.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Cincinnati, OHThree teens were injured in a two-car crash late Thursday.
The Butler County Sheriff's Office said Ashley Spaulding, 17, of Trenton, was driving a 1998 Pontiac Sunfire southbound on Jacksonburg Road just south of Taylor School Road at around 10 p.m.
Deputies said that as Spaulding attempted to pass a vehicle, she apparently lost control, and her car began swerving, eventually sliding sideways across both lanes of traffic.
The Sunfire then collided with a northbound 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, driven by Dalton Williams, 19, of Trenton.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Las Vegas, NVA 15-year-old boy driving a moped was killed in a hit-and-run crash in the northeast valley Thursday night.
Alex Martinez and a 20-year-old male passenger were traveling west on Meikle Lane about 8:20 p.m. when the accident occurred. They were crossing Ringe Lane, near Nellis and Lake Mead boulevards where they were struck by an unknown vehicle, according to Las Vegas police.
Both Martinez and the passenger on the moped were thrown onto the road. The operator of the vehicle that hit them did not stop or call the police.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Chicago, ILA man was fatally struck by a van Thursday afternoon on the South Side in the Englewood neighborhood.
Jeffrey Bond, 65, was struck by a "maroon or brown van" as he stepped onto 59th Street near a bus stop about 4:40 p.m., according to a police News Affairs Officer and the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The driver of the vehicle then fled the scene, police said.
Bond, of the 5800 block of South Carpenter Street, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he was pronounced dead at 5:23 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013One person was killed and three others injured in a head-on crash in Williamstown that occurred during a snowfall.
Police say the woman who died in the Thursday crash on Route 7 was a passenger in a Hyundai Elantra that collided with a Buick Lucerne. She was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield where she was pronounced dead. Each vehicle had two occupants.
Three other people were taken to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield with injuries that were serious but did not appear life-threatening.
No names were released.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Los Angeles, CAA driver was arrested Thursday night for allegedly slamming into a car, sending it and four passengers plunging into a flood control channel, then driving away from the crash, authorities said.
The hit-and-run collision happened about 7:40 p.m. near Parthenia Street and Noble Avenue in North Hills, according to a watch commander with the Los Angeles Police Department Valley Traffic Division.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
San Antonio, TXA 6-year-old girl died Thursday afternoon after she was run over by a snack truck on the Southwest Side.
San Antonio Police said the child, identified by family as April Nicole Soliz, had been buying candy with one of her friends, a 10-year-old girl, from the truck around 2:30 p.m. in the 5300 block of Prairie Flower Drive.
Lopez said as the truck driver, a 50-year-old man, was trying to turn around on a dead-end street, Soliz jumped onto the vehicle's rear bumper.
Police said the driver did not know she had jumped onto the vehicle.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Philadelphia, PAA portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is shut down in snowy eastern Pennsylvania after a pileup involving what appears to be a couple dozen vehicles.
Turnpike officials say all lanes westbound were shut down because of the accident between the Morgantown and Reading exits in Berks County.
There was no immediate word on injuries in the crash.
Also, an accident has shut down Interstate 78 eastbound in Berks County between mileposts 35 and 40 in Lenhartsville.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
San Diego, CAA motorist suffered major injuries in a two-vehicle crash Thursday near Barona, authorities said.
A white Mazda sedan and a Chevrolet truck collided shortly before 7 a.m. at the intersection of Wildcat Canyon and Featherstone Canyon roads, according to the California Highway Patrol.
One person was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital following the crash, a Heartland Fire & Rescue dispatcher said.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Philadelphia, PANewark Police are investigating a serious six-car crash that left an eight-month-old girl hospitalized in critical condition Thursday.
It happened around 11 a.m. on Capital Trail at the Windy Hills Bridge.
Police say a southbound Dodge Neon operated by a 36-year-old woman, with two small children inside, slid on the icy roadway and into the path of a northbound Honda Accord, operated by a 75-year-old man with a 75-year-old female passenger. The Neon was struck on the passenger side by the front of the Accord.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013A grandmother was killed and her two young grandchildren were hospitalized after they were struck by a car as she pushed them across the street in a stroller in Sunrise on Christmas night.
The incident happened as the woman was crossing Pine Island Road at Sunset Strip, a Sunrise Police spokesman said.
One of the children was taken to Broward Health Medical Center by air rescue and the grandmother and other child were taken by an ambulance, police said. The grandmother, later identified as 61-year-old Li Fang Dong, died at the hospital.