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Police have identified the driver who was killed after his vehicle crashed and burst into flames in Northeast Philadelphia late Monday night.
The victim has been identified as 39-year-old Eric Ferrell of 1500 block of Seller Street.
The accident happened around 11:15 p.m. on the 4600 block of Roosevelt Boulevard near Tower Drive.
According to police, Ferrell was travelling inside a 2011 Mazda at high rate of speed, lost control, hit the curb, and then struck a tree in the median
The car flipped onto its side and then burst into flames.
A security guard was injured when an alleged drunk driver crashed into a gate at the Naval Yard in South Philadelphia.
It happened around 7:30 Monday night.
Police say the 34-year-old driver was behind the wheel of a Mazda. The vehicle struck the front gate and the guard shack, injuring a security guard.
The 55-year-old security guard was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with neck, back and hip injuries.
The driver, who was not injured, has been arrested.
According to police, around 7:05 a.m. Monday morning crews responded to a car accident on I-676 Westbound near the Walt Whitman Bridge.
State troopers were forced to break the victim’s car window in order to get her out of the vehicle.
Authorities attempted CPR on the female and then transported her to Cooper Hospital where she was pronounced dead around 8:00 a.m.
Police have identified the victim as 58-year-old Kathleen Cockerill.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
It is unclear at this time what caused the accident.
Police say three people were injured when a driver lost control and crashed on Roosevelt Boulevard early Saturday morning.
The accident occurred around 2:00 a.m. just past Adams Avenue in the city's Frankford section.
A driver traveling northbound in a Pontiac Bonneville lost control of a car.
The car ran off the road before striking a tree head on, police say.
Two men and a woman were rushed to Einstein Hospital. One man in the backseat was thrown into the windshield. He is listed in critical condition.
A man is fighting for his life after a car crash on Roosevelt Boulevard in the Hunting Park section of the city.
Officials say one car struck another in the southbound lanes of the Boulevard near 9th Street shortly after 4 a.m. The collision caused the second car to strike a tree and a guard rail.
The male driver was trapped for about 10 minutes until rescue crews arrived. He was taken to Temple University Hospital where he is currently in critical condition.
The other driver was not hurt in the accident. Officials say charges are not expected.
Police are seeking the public's help in identifying the driver in a hit-and-run crash late Thursday that left a man clinging to life.
The victim, a 53-year-old man, was crossing Domino Lane near Harmon Road in Upper Roxborough when he was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene, police said. He was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he remained in extremely critical condition last night.
A jack-knifed tractor trailer along I-95 snarled traffic in Philadelphia early Monday morning.
The big rig jack-knifed at about 5 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-95 near the Washington Avenue exit.
Shortly after the accident, one lane of traffic was able to squeeze by, but crews shutdown the lanes entirely around 6 a.m. to clean-up the accident scene. All lanes were re-opened at about 6:30 a.m.
There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
The accident remains under investigation.