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Man hit and injured by car on Route 15 in Illinois.

Date: 
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Area: 
Champaign & Springfield-Decatur, IL

A pedestrian was struck on Illinois Route 15 in Alorton Friday night.

According to police, a New Athens woman was driving her 2010 Ford Focus on Route 15 near Pocket Road around 8:30 p.m. when she struck a male pedestrian.

The pedestrian was transported to SLU hospital. The female driver was taken to a hospital in Belleville. Conditions of the pedestrian and driver have not been released.

Woman killed after losing control of SUV and hits tree in Michigan.

Date: 
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Area: 
Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, MI

A woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash not far from Homer Friday morning. It happened just after 7:20 a.m. Friday on L Drive near 22 Mile Road in Clarendon Township, according to the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office. The driver of an eastbound SUV lost control and hit a tree. The driver, a 51-year-old Homer woman, was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim's name is being withheld pending notification of family members. The crash remains under investigation.

Man taken to hospital after his car is struck by train in Memphis Tenn.

Date: 
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Area: 
Memphis, TN
A Memphis driver was rushed to the hospital after colliding with a train Friday morning. The accident happened at the railroad crossing on Hollywood Street, near Liberty Bowl Stadium. Witnesses say the driver hesitated, then decided to drive over the tracks. That is when he was hit by the train. The impact of the collision pushed the car about 100 yards.

Thomas Dean Woods, 25, struck and killed by hit-and-run driver in Seffner, Florida

Date: 
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
Investigators with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office are gathering information in a fatal hit-and-run crash that occurred late Friday in Seffner. A 25-year-old Texas man was found dead on the side of South Parsons Ave., approximately ¼-mile south of Old East Hillsborough Ave. Thomas Dean Woods had been hit by a vehicle. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report a motorist passing by called 9-1-1 just after midnight to report a man laying in the grass. Deputies determined Woods died as the result of a hit-and run and quickly blocked all traffic in the area.

Edward Steinhardt dies from exposure after his truck fall through ice on lake.

Date: 
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Area: 
Duluth, MN-Superior, WI
Authorities in Washburn County on Friday reported that numerous vehicles have broken through icy, snow-covered lakes, including one incident in which the driver died of exposure after walking away from the vehicle. Edward Steinhardt, 30, of Naperville, Ill., was found Friday about a half mile south of Dilly Lake in Potato Creek, according to the Washburn County Sheriff's Office. Steinhardt was an employee of a St. Louis business and had been reported missing along with a company truck Thursday.

Angel Gustbabo Hernandez, 4, killed when he falls from van driven by his father in Marysville, Ohio

Date: 
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Area: 
Columbus, OH
A father was jailed after he drove away without talking to officers about running over his 4-year-old son who had fallen out of their van near a central Ohio construction site, fatally injuring the boy, according to the State Highway Patrol. Natividad de Jesus Hernandez, 30, of Columbus, was arrested Thursday after showing up at a hospital where his son, Angel Gustbabo Hernandez, died after the accident earlier in Union County, northwest of Columbus.

Aaron Crandall killed when his car strikes utility pole at high rate of speed in Renton, Wa.

Date: 
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA
A 21-year-old Renton man was killed early Friday when his car slammed into a utility pole at high speed. Officers and medics responded to the scene, in the 1100 block of South Carr Road, at about 2:20 a.m. after receiving a report of a serious crash. A witness told investigators that the car was heading west at high speed when it veered off the roadway and crashed into a utility pole. The 21-year-old driver was the only one in the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A utility crew had to shut off power before the body could be removed.

Driver killed after crashing into rock wall at high speed in KY.

Date: 
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Area: 
Nashville, TN

One person is dead after a car hit a rock wall in Christian County Thursday evening.

Officials say the single-vehicle wreck happened on the Hopkinsville Bypass between Cadiz Road and Princeton Road at 5:47 p.m.

The person's name has not been released at this time.

Officials say speed is considered to be a factor in the crash.

John Mark Houser killed when his vehicle is hit by semi truck.

Date: 
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Area: 
Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA

A 52-year-old Maryland man was killed when the vehicle he was in was struck by a tractor-trailer in Mount Holly Springs Thursday morning.

John Mark Houser's vehicle was hit just before 6 a.m. at Routes 34 and 94, according to the Cumberland County Coroner's office.

Houser, of Westminster, Md., was the only person in the vehicle, according to the coroner's office. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.

Mark Erik Walwyn killed in collision with car while riding his motorcycle in Las Vegas.

Date: 
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Area: 
Las Vegas, NV

The motorcyclist killed in a collision in the northwest valley Thursday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as Mark Erik Walwyn, of North Las Vegas.

Malwyn was riding his motorcycle fast in the left travel lane of Craig Road near Jadestone Avenue when he collided with a 2008 Honda Accord making a left turn in front of him just before 2 p.m., according to Las Vegas police.

The 43-year-old was thrown from his motorcycle and slid to a stop several hundred feet from the crash site, police said.