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Friday, January 10, 2014Area:
Atlanta, GAA DeKalb County 10th grade student severely injured in a car accident over the weekend was taken off of life support on Tuesday. Kaylin Williams, 15, was described by school officials as a model student at Southwest DeKalb High. She had straight As and was poised for an elite cheerleading collegiate scholarship, friends said. Williams was a passenger in a car with two other 10th grade students on Saturday. The trio was returning home in bad weather after a trip to the movies when the car hydroplaned and was t-boned by a truck.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014About 20 students were taken to the hospital after a school bus was involved in a crash in Winston-Salem Wednesday morning.
The crash happened around 10 a.m. at the intersection of Murray Road and Becks Church Road.
A total of 49 students were on bus 771, which serves Gibson Elementary School, at the time of the crash. Of those, 19 students complained of pain and were taken to Brenner Children's Hospital in the county EMS bus.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014Area:
Portland, ORPolice asked for witnesses Thursday to help in their investigation of a two-vehicle crash on Oregon 18 on Wednesday that left three people injured, including a child.
A 2005 Chevrolet Astro van driven by Joshua D. Lesmeister, 28 of Tenino, Wash., was headed east near milepost 15 when the van crossed into the westbound lane and crashed nearly head-on with a 2008 Honda Civic driven by Megan K. Goss, 34 of Portland. Lesmeister, Goss and Goss' 18-month old daughter were injured.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA crash involving two school buses in San Tan Valley sent four students to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
A Pina County Sheriff's Office spokesman said the crash happened about 8:45 a.m. as schools opened after the long holiday break. Medical personnel treated six of the seven passengers on the two buses, the spokesman said.
The crash was at Denim Trail and Azalea Drive, the spokesman said.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014Area:
Trenton-NJAuthorities say a six-year-old boy has died after being struck by a school bus Monday morning.
Edmond Bock IV was hit shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Aqua Lane in Waterford’s Atco section.
According to the Camden County Prosecutor’s office, the bus was stopped to pick up other children when the victim began walking around the front of the vehicle.
When the school bus began moving again, it fatally struck the first grader.
An investigation is underway to determine if there was anything criminal in the child’s death.
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Saturday, January 4, 2014Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAA head-on crash near Auburn sent three people, including a 4-year-old girl, to the hospital with critical injuries. A Ford Explorer and a minivan collided on Military Road South. The 4-year-old girl in the SUV and both people inside the minivan were taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. The man driving the Ford Explorer was not injured.
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Thursday, January 2, 2014Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAA woman and child were injured early Friday morning in a one-vehicle crash south of Oak Harbor. Both were taken to Whidbey General Hospital in Coupeville. The driver, 48, is under investigation for vehicular assault. Troopers believe alcohol was a factor in the crash. The Coupeville woman was driving a 2007 GMC pickup truck southbound on Zylstra Road at Hastie Lake Road when it crossed the centerline and struck a tree. Her passenger - a 9-year-old child is from Lake Stevens.
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA tire blowout is believed to have caused a rollover crash that seriously injured five members of a family, including three children, on Interstate 10 in Phoenix on Thursday morning.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the family's vehicle was going west when the blowout occurred, sending the vehicle through the median and into eastbound traffic.
The crash happened near 31st Avenue about 9:30 a.m.
Two adults were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center with serious injuries, Garcia said. The three children were taken to Phoenix Children's Hospital.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A mother has been charged with driving under the influence after her two young children were killed in a car crash, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
Troopers said Melissa Patton, 32, is charged with two counts of felony driving under the influence and driving under suspension.
According to troopers, Patton was driving a car at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday on Wells Highway when the car traveled off the road, hit a church sign and overturned.
4-year-old Vincent Huynh killed when father backs over him with car in driveway in Burlas, Louisiana
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
New Orleans, LAA 4-year-old child died after he was run over on a private driveway in Buras on Wednesday, authorities said.
The preliminary investigation revealed that Hai Hoang Thanh Huynh, 32, of Buras, was backing out of his driveway at 125 Circle St. when he struck his son, identified as Vincent Huynh.
The man attempted to drive his son to a hospital but was stopped by a Plaquemines Parish sheriff’s deputy for speeding. During the stop, the deputy discovered that the child had died.
Speed and impairment are not suspected as factors of the accident, authorities said.