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Benjamin Scholes, 34, charged with OVI, after his car crashes in to a fuel pump at a gas station in Wickliffe, Ohio

Date: 
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Area: 
Cleveland-Akron, OH
The Wickliffe Police Department responded to a reported car accident Sunday morning at the Shell gas station. Upon arrival, police found 34-year-old Benjamin Scholes at the scene of the accident. Scholes admitting to losing control of his vehicle on a patch of ice. Scholes' blood alcohol content was a .189. He was arrested and charged with OVI failure to control. He was released after posting a $3,500 bond. Police say the canopy of the gas station and gas pump received extensive damage from the crash.

Vaughn Lietzke, 41, killed, Sandra Lietzke, 42, seriously injured, taken to hospital, after a 21-year-old male intoxicated driver in a SUV crashes into their house in Auburn.

Date: 
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Area: 
Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, MI

Authorities in Bay County say a drunken driver crashed an SUV into a house, killing a man who lived there and injuring his wife. The crash happened early Sunday in Auburn, about 10 miles west of Bay City. Police stated that the dead man was 41-year-old Vaughn Lietzke. Authorities say his 42-year-old wife Sandra Lietzke was airlifted to Saginaw’s Saint Mary’s of Michigan Medical Center, where she was in stable condition. Deputies say the 21-year-old driver, later identified as Hunter D. Motko, 21, failed to stop at a stop sign, ran over a curb and struck a corner of the house.

Ryan Smit, 20, seriously injured, airlifted to hospital, Andrew Camp, 22, injured, after their snowmobile crashes into a shore station on Magician Lake in Silver Creek Township, Michigan

Date: 
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Area: 
South Bend-Elkhart, IN
A man was hurt Sunday when the snowmobile he was riding on crashed and he was thrown from the vehicle. It happened around 6 a.m. on the eastern shoreline of Magician Lake in Silver Creek Township, northwest of Dowagiac, according to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office.

Two children, two adults injured after a car driven by Alex Ponomarov crashes into a minivan at an intersection of State Route 44 near Simsbury, Connecticut

Date: 
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Area: 
Hartford & New Haven, CT
A 44-year-old man was charged with driving under the influence Friday night after causing a three-car accident on Route 44 that injured two children, police said. Several fire departments responded to crash, which happened at the intersection of Route 44 and Old Albany Turnpike near the Simsbury town line about 6:21 p.m. According to police, the first vehicle, driven by Alex Ponomarov, turned left from Route 44 onto Old Albany Turnpike and struck the side of a minivan that was traveling in the opposite lane of Route 44.

Julio Alberto Moreira struck and killed by hit-and-run driver while try to cross Kuykendahl Road in Houston, Texas

Date: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Area: 
Houston, TX
A deadly hit-and-run crash closed part of Kuykendahl Road in north Harris County early Thursday morning. Harris County sheriff's deputies said a red sedan with two men inside was heading south on Kuykendahl just after midnight when a man was crossing the road near the intersection of Cypress Landing. The pedestrian was hit by the car. His body actually went into the windshield," said a Sgt. with the Harris County Sheriff's Office. "He rode on top of the car for two or three hundred yards." The man, later identified as Julio Alberto Moreira, died at the scene.

Drunk driver in critical condition, one Philadelphia police officer suffers minor injuries, after the drunk driver crashes into two police cars at a intersection.

Date: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Area: 
Philadelphia, PA
Police say a suspected drunk driver lost control of his mini-van near 11th and West Cumberland Street and crashed into a car going through the intersection. It happened at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday. The vehicle then careened off that car and then came to a halt when his van smashed into two police cars that were stopped nearby. One 22nd District police officer suffered minor injuries and was taken to Temple University Hospital for treatment of minor non-life threatening injuries. He is expected to be released.

Shanna Huttenstine, 34, killed, driver of taxi van critically injured, after their van was struck by a pickup, who's driver was arrested, on State Route 167 near Puyallup.

Date: 
Monday, March 3, 2014
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA

The fiance of a woman who was killed in a collision on State Route 167 near Puyallup early Tuesday says she was 12 weeks pregnant when she died. Jason Speers said he and his fiancee, 34-year-old Shanna Huttenstine, were in a cab headed home to Tacoma from the hospital when their cab collided with a pickup truck. The driver of the pickup, a 48-year-old Puyallup man, later identified as Anderson Hamilton, was booked into jail for vehicular homicide after the collision.

David D. Sunter, 48, charged with DUI after he crashes his moped in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts

Date: 
Friday, February 28, 2014
Area: 
Springfield-Holyoke, MA
Police charged a 48-year-old North Circle Drive man with drunken driving after he allegedly crashed his moped at Mapleshade Avenue and Elm street early Saturday. Sgt. Patrick Manley said a passerby reported the crash about 1:50 a.m. The rider, David D. Sunter, of 68 North Circle Drive, was also charged with driving with a suspended license. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, Manley said. Manley said moped operators are required to follow the same laws of the road that govern motor vehicle drivers.

King County Sheriff's deputy arrested after his cruiser rear-ends another car near Mill Creek in King County.

Date: 
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA
A King County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Friday morning after he crashed his patrol car in Mill Creek, rear-ending another car while on duty. Investigators suspect he was impaired. The deputy is 47 and a 19-year veteran of the force. He was put on paid administrative leave while the investigation is under way. The collision was reported just before 7 a.m. at the intersection of 132nd Street SE and the Bothell-Everett Highway.

Thomas Peter Tom, 57, arrest for DUI after his speeding truck rolls over on Roeder Ave. in Bellingham.

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Area: 
Everett-Bellingham WA

A 57-year-old man faces charges of reckless driving and driving under the influence after a rollover crash Thursday night, Feb. 27, on Roeder Avenue. The Ford Ranger driven by Thomas Peter Tom had been speeding at 60 mph in a 35 mph zone around 9:40 p.m. on Roeder. The truck crashed and may have rolled multiple times before landing on its side. Tom and a 24-year-old woman in the passenger seat somehow escaped with just scrapes and bruises. Police suspect Tom was intoxicated. He was taken to St. Joseph Hospital as a precaution and to have his blood drawn.