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Friday, January 24, 2014Area:
Rochester, NY57-year-old Barry Scutt from Batavia is dead following a wrong-way crash in Canandaigua on Saturday.
The accident happened on Route 5 around 3 p.m. when 68-year-old Steven Kloos was driving west on Route 5 when he lost control and blacked out at the wheel due to a medical condition.
Kloos then struck a mailbox and road sign with his car according to the Ontario County Sheriff's Office.
Kloos' vehicle then continued westbound on Route 5 in the eastbound lane and struck 57 year old Barry Scutt head on.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014Area:
Kansas City, MOTwo people are injured – one critically – after a wrong-way crash on southbound I-35 in Pleasant Valley Friday morning.
It happened just south of 152 Highway around 4 a.m.
Police stated that a car was driving northbound in the southbound lanes when it struck another vehicle.
One person has life-threatening injuries. A second victim has minor injuries.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014Area:
Columbia, SCAuthorities say three people have died in a wreck caused by a 28-year-old woman who was drinking on her birthday and drove the wrong way on Interstate 77 in Fairfield County.
Investigators said Takeya Taylor, of Columbia, was driving the wrong way around 2:30 a.m. Thursday in the southbound lanes of I-77 about five miles from Winnsboro when she hit another vehicle head on.
The coroner's office said Taylor was killed, along with the driver of the other car, 48-year-old Lisa Jefferson, and one of her passengers, 46-year-old Wallace Green. A second passenger in the car remains in the hospital.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCThe head-on collision late Wednesday that killed two drivers is fourth fatal wreck involving drivers heading the wrong way on U.S. Highway 1 between Southern Pines and Sanford in the last six years, according to authorities.
A Toyota SUV driven by Terrell Abbott, 36, of Texas, was southbound in the northbound lanes of U.S. 1 north of Southern Pines at about 10:45 p.m. when it slammed into a Toyota sedan driven by Jasmine Wicker, 20, of Sanford, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014Police are investigating a deadly head-on crash in Southwest Miami-Dade that killed three people and sent two others to the hospital early Sunday.
The violent wreck happened around 1:45 a.m. in the area of Krome Avenue and Southwest 144th Street, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
"The impact was so severe that both vehicles caught on fire," a FHP spokesman said.
The FHP is still investigating the cause of the crash.
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Friday, January 17, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYAided by a witness who followed a hit-and-run driver, police arrested a Youngstown woman on a variety of charges early Saturday stemming from an accident on the Robert Moses Parkway.
According to reports, the suspect struck a car driven by a Youngstown man around 5:30 a.m., then drove away from the scene. A witness to the accident followed the fleeing driver, and sheriff’s deputies were able to stop her car on Blairville Road a short time later. Carole R. Rossi displayed signs of intoxication and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.16, twice the legal limit, police said.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014Virginia State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash in Gloucester Friday where a driver was trapped inside his vehicle and passed away.
Around 12 p.m., a State Trooper was dispatched to the crash in the 5200 block of Route 17 (George Washington Memorial Highway) and found a 2000 Lincoln Town car had run off the road and struck a retaining wall. according to a VSP Sergeant the driver was trapped inside his vehicle and died at the scene shortly after the crash.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014Area:
Cincinnati, OHFour people were hurt, one critically, in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 75.
Cincinnati police said Andrea Collett, 48, was driving north in the southbound lanes near Second Street at about 10: 15 p.m. Thursday when her sport utility vehicle hit a southbound car.
Collett suffered critical injuries and was taken to UC Medical Center for treatment. Her current condition has not been released.
Three people in the other car were injured, one seriously.
The crash remains under investigation.
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Friday, January 10, 2014Area:
Baltimore, MDA car driving the wrong direction on a southern Howard County road resulted in a crash that killed one and badly injured two others early Saturday morning, police said.
A woman in an Acura was driving westbound in the eastbound lanes of MD 32 at around 4:15 a.m. when she struck a tow truck head-on, Howard County police said. The crash took place near the intersection of Dorsey Run Road in the Annapolis Junction area.
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Thursday, January 9, 2014Area:
Roanoke-Lynchburg, VATwo people were killed in a head-on, wrong-way crash in Henry County during a chase that started in Rockingham County early Friday morning.
The crash happened in the northbound lanes near Morehead Avenue in Ridgeway, WSLS reported. The names of neither driver have been released.
According to a statement from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office, a deputy began chasing a black Ford F-150 pickup truck that was driving erratically on Martinsville Loop Road in Stoneville. It got onto Hwy. 220 and started going northbound in the southbound lanes, deputies said.