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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Philadelphia, PANewark Police are investigating a serious six-car crash that left an eight-month-old girl hospitalized in critical condition Thursday.
It happened around 11 a.m. on Capital Trail at the Windy Hills Bridge.
Police say a southbound Dodge Neon operated by a 36-year-old woman, with two small children inside, slid on the icy roadway and into the path of a northbound Honda Accord, operated by a 75-year-old man with a 75-year-old female passenger. The Neon was struck on the passenger side by the front of the Accord.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Los Angeles, CAA driver was arrested Thursday night for allegedly slamming into a car, sending it and four passengers plunging into a flood control channel, then driving away from the crash, authorities said.
The hit-and-run collision happened about 7:40 p.m. near Parthenia Street and Noble Avenue in North Hills, according to a watch commander with the Los Angeles Police Department Valley Traffic Division.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013A grandmother was killed and her two young grandchildren were hospitalized after they were struck by a car as she pushed them across the street in a stroller in Sunrise on Christmas night.
The incident happened as the woman was crossing Pine Island Road at Sunset Strip, a Sunrise Police spokesman said.
One of the children was taken to Broward Health Medical Center by air rescue and the grandmother and other child were taken by an ambulance, police said. The grandmother, later identified as 61-year-old Li Fang Dong, died at the hospital.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
San Antonio, TXA 6-year-old girl died Thursday afternoon after she was run over by a snack truck on the Southwest Side.
San Antonio Police said the child, identified by family as April Nicole Soliz, had been buying candy with one of her friends, a 10-year-old girl, from the truck around 2:30 p.m. in the 5300 block of Prairie Flower Drive.
Lopez said as the truck driver, a 50-year-old man, was trying to turn around on a dead-end street, Soliz jumped onto the vehicle's rear bumper.
Police said the driver did not know she had jumped onto the vehicle.
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Monday, December 23, 2013Area:
Chicago, ILPolice suspect alcohol was a factor in a crash that killed an 8-year-old girl with the child's father was at the wheel.
He is in the hospital Wednesday night as the little girl's family is left to cope with this Christmas tragedy.
It was a single car crash and police say the vehicle may have been traveling at a fast speed.
It happened Christmas Eve around 11:15 p.m. in the 1000 block of West Garfield Boulevard.
Relatives say 8-year-old Lauren was riding in the back of a Chevy Impala which was being driven by her father, 26-year-old Jeff Allen Smith.
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Friday, December 20, 2013Area:
Trenton-NJA young boy was killed and a man was injured when their car struck a tree on a southern New Jersey roadway.
But it’s still not clear what caused the crash, which occurred shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday in Mullica Township.
Police in the Atlantic County community say 10-year-old township resident Jaiden Ohnemuller-Muskett was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. He had been sitting in the car’s rear passenger seat.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013Area:
Buffalo, NYAn 8-year-old boy was hit by a truck and killed while crossing the street with his sister in Queens on his way to school Friday, the last day before the winter break.
The truck hit the third-grader, Noshat Nahian, as it turned from 61st Street onto Northern Boulevard, where he and his 11-year-old sister were crossing.
The child was hit by the rear tires, police said. His sister was not injured.
He was about a block from his school, PS 152.
The driver stayed at the scene. Police are investigating.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013Area:
Los Angeles, CAOne adult and one student suffered minor injuries when a station wagon and school bus were involved in a collision Thursday in the west San Fernando Valley.
The crash was reported about 7:48 a.m. in the 7000 block of Corbin Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The bus was carrying about a dozen students, and all had exited the vehicle after the wreck, officials said. Three patients were assessed for injury, officials said.
A student and an adult attendant were taken to a hospital with very minor injuries, officials said.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013Area:
Portland, OROregon State Police say four adults and two children were injured and State Highway 30 was temporarily closed about 10 miles east of Astoria after a head-on crash. Police say a westbound pickup driven by a 70-year-old woman crossed the centerline and collided with a car carrying three adults and two children late yesterday afternoon. The pickup driver was ejected and seriously injured. She was flown to a Portland hospital. Hastings says the car's 24-year-old male driver was also seriously hurt. The other two adults and the children received minor injuries.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013Area:
Portland, ORA Forest Grove teen pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with the crash that killed two young stepsisters playing in a pile of leaves in October.
Mario Echeverria, 18, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for hindering prosecution after the crash, according to the Washington County District Attorney's office.
Police said he and 18-year-old Cinthya Garcia Cisneros were driving home Oct. 20 when they hit and killed 11-year-old Abigail Robinson and 6-year-old Anna Dieter-Eckert, who were playing in the leaves near their home.