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Police have identified the Maine woman killed in a fiery crash in Fairfield last week.
Authorities say 39-year-old Tammy Sue Harl of Norridgewock died after she lost control of her car on Route 139 and slid into the path of an oncoming pickup truck on March 20. Police say icy road conditions contributed to the crash.
The driver of the truck was not seriously injured.
Harl’s 1996 Plymouth Neon was incinerated.
The office of the chief medical examiner used DNA testing to identify Harl.
A New Prague woman is dead after a crash in Carver County on Wednesday.
The crash occurred at 9:23 p.m. on County Road 11 near White Pine Way.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, 18-year-old Mickenzy Segler was driving a Chevy Malibu when she lost control of the vehicle and slid sideways into the northbound lane.
Thirty-two-year-old Robert MacDonald of Carver was driving a Dodge truck, and tried to move out of the way, but hit the passenger side of Segler's car.
The state patrol says roads were icy at the scene of the crash.
A man was killed in a crash after losing control of his pickup truck on an icy bridge Tuesday morning.
Donald Ray Cagle Jr., 40, of Seagrove, died in the single-vehicle crash around 7:15 a.m. on Lanes Mill Road near Coleridge in southeastern Randolph County.
Cagle was driving a Ford Ranger westbound on Lanes Mill Road when he went around a curve and lost control on an icy bridge, troopers said. The truck went off the road to the left, overturned and hit a tree.
Cagle was pinned in the truck and died at the scene.
The driver of a pickup died in a rollover crash in Eagle River Valley on Tuesday morning, police said.
Anchorage police responded at 7:09 a.m. to a report of a single-vehicle rollover at Kogru Place and Prudhoe Bay Avenue off Eagle River Road, just over a mile from the Eagle River Nature Center.
The sole occupant of the 2010 Ford pickup, Russell James of Eagle River, 47, was pronounced dead at the scene, said Anchorage police spokeswoman Anita Shell.
Eight Stevens County students injured in a bus slide-off accident early Wednesday were evaluated for non-life-threatening injuries in Spokane, according to the Mary Walker School District. Twenty-seven students were aboard school bus No. 6 when it slid onto its side south of Springdale, Wash. All passengers were evaluated by medical personnel at the scene and were either loaded onto another bus or released to parents or guardians, the district said. The roadway was described as a “sheet of ice” by law enforcement on scene during the incident, which occurred around 8 a.m.
A former University of Kentucky men's basketball player has been identified as one of two people killed in a Monday night car crash in Louisville.
Kerry Benson, 24, was a walk-on at Kentucky in 2007. He left the team mid-way through the 2007-2008 season to focus on his education.
Benson was a Pleasure Ridge Park High School graduate, where he also played basketball.
The Jefferson County Coroner's Office identified the second victim as Germina Cruz, 23. She was dancer for the 2014 Lady Xtreme Dance Team.
A semi-truck carrying apples lost control and rolled on an ice-covered Highway 97 near Madras early Sunday morning, police said.
At 6 a.m., the driver lost control while traveling downhill and entering a curve near the town of Shaniko. The truck crossed the center line, went off the west side of the road and rolled onto its top, spilling apples across the embankment, according to the Oregon State Police.
The driver got out of the truck with minor injuries. He was taken to a hospital in Madras.
Police say ice on the roadway was a factor in an accident that had Route 41 in Chester County closed for about two hours Friday.
The crash happened just before 6 a.m. at the intersection of Route 41 and Highland Road in Atglen.
Police say it started as a two-vehicle crash involving Ford Explorer and a Toyota Tacoma.
The driver of a tractor-trailer tried to avoid the accident scene, lost control and overturned.
The tractor-trailer driver suffered a cut to his head.
The road was reopened around 8:00 a.m.
Three college students were killed in a crash with a semi while traveling on an icy road near Northfield Friday, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.
The broadside crash happened on Highway 3 at County Road 47 in Dakota County around 3 p.m.
According to the state patrol, an SUV carrying five college students was northbound on Highway 3 when it spun out and went into the southbound lanes. The semi, which was southbound, hit the vehicle broadside.