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Monday, March 10, 2014Area:
Philadelphia, PAPhiladelphia Police are investigating a hit and run accident that left a pedestrian seriously injured in North Philadelphia Tuesday.
It happened at 21st Street and Susquehanna Avenue around 3:30 p.m.
Police say a woman, believed to be in her late 40's, had just exited a SEPTA bus when she was struck by a white Chevy Impala at a high rate of speed.
The impact sent the victim flying nearly 30 feet before she landed in the street.
She was taken to Temple University Hospital with serious head injuries.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA wrong-way driver was killed in a five-vehicle crash in northwest suburban Arlington Heights Monday afternoon. The crash happened about 12:15 p.m., when a 51-year-old man from Palatine was driving northwest in the southeast-bound lanes of Rand Road between Thomas and Dryden avenues, according to a statement from Arlington Heights police.
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Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA 29-year-old man was killed Saturday in a rollover crash that shut down lanes of Interstate 57 on the city’s South Side.
The man, driving in a 2000 Ford Explorer, was heading northbound on I-57 near 99th Street around 1:30 a.m. “at a high rate of speed” when he lost control, according to Illinois State Police.
The veered right and struck the right side guard rail and rolled over, police said.
The driver was ejected from the SUV and sustained fatal injuries. Police said he was not wearing a seatbelt.
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Friday, February 28, 2014Area:
Portland-Auburn, MEA New Hampshire woman is recovering from injuries suffered when her snowmobile hit a rock wall on Lake Umbagog in Errol.
New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say 43-year-old Roxanne Bonney was traveling a high rate of speed across the lake when she struck exposed rocks and was thrown from her snowmobile.
She was taken by ambulance to Androscoggin Valley Hospital for treatment.
The accident happened at about 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Friday, February 28, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCOfficials don’t yet know how fast he was going, but 26-year-old Sergio Acero was riding his motorcycle fast enough around a curve to crash into a large concrete manhole cover.
Chapel Hill police responded to a call that came in around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, and found Acero alive but severely injured along Estes Drive Extension near Seawell School Road.
“It was a pretty bad crash,” said a Lt. with the Chapel Hill Police Department. “The motorcycle went one way and he went the other.”
Acero died at UNC Hospital.
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Thursday, February 27, 2014The driver of a stolen pickup was killed after crashing into power poles in Pittsburg on Thursday night and knocking out power to nearly 1,200 PG&E customers in the surrounding area, police and utility officials said.
Around 11:40 p.m., residents in the 600 block of Rockspray Circle heard a vehicle starting outside their home and looked outside to see someone driving off in their truck, police said.
Police said the residents tried to follow the driver in another car, but stopped after he began speeding at about 70 miles per hour on West 10th Street.
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Thursday, February 27, 2014Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAShortly before 3 a.m. Friday, Seattle Fire Department crews were called to the crash in the 5300 block of Fourth Avenue South in Seattle’s Industrial District. Police said a 1998 Ford Ranger pickup was headed north on Fourth and a 1997 Toyota Camry was headed south when they collided near the intersection of Fourth and Bennett Street. The driver of the Camry was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the pickup was transported to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Friday, February 21, 2014Area:
Milwaukee, WIA missing snowmobiler was found dead after he apparently crashed on an ice-covered lake in Walworth County over the weekend.
Searchers were called to Lake Delavan around 8 a.m. Sunday to look for the 51-year-old man who had been missing about 12 hours.
Investigators said the man's family found his snowmobile out on the frozen lake Sunday morning and called police.
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Friday, February 21, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCA West Charlotte Man is dead after an ATV crash Saturday afternoon.
Police tell us Marvin Andrew Davis died during a ride with family friends. It happened in a wooded area near Dillard Valley Road.
They say Davis was riding down a grassy hill at a high rate of speed attempting to jump a creek bed when the ATV struck the embankment on the other side of the creek.
Davis was thrown off the ATV.
Police say Davis was wearing a helmet.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCA man faces misdemeanor charges after a passenger died in a head-on crash on a snowy Chatham County road Wednesday.
Miguel Arquimides Caseres, 45, of Siler City, was charged following a crash around 1:15 p.m. on Silk Road near Romine Pike Road.
Caseres was driving a 1996 Ford car on a snow-covered road when it crossed the center line and crashed into a 1999 Chevrolet, troopers said. The passenger in the Chevrolet died.
The passenger's name hasn't been released pending notification of next-of-kin.
Caseres also was charged with exceeding a safe speed.