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A parolee wanted for a traffic offense led law enforcement on a car chase Sunday through La Mesa and El Cajon until his vehicle crashed into two others, and he tried to run off with a female passenger, police said.
A La Mesa police tried to pull over Sean Bartelson, 34, whom they recognized as a known subject on parole, shortly after 8 a.m. for an unspecified traffic violation at El Cajon Boulevard and Baltimore Drive, said a La Mesa police Lt. in a statement.
One person is dead after a Jeep collided with a barrier and rolled over.
It happened just after 5 a.m. Sunday in the northbound lanes of Interstate – 25 between E-470 and Highway 7.
State troopers say the Jeep Wrangler collided with the concrete barrier and rolled onto its side.
A 19-year-old passenger in the Jeep, Marysol Tarango, was thrown from the vehicle.
Two vehicles then struck her and she died on the scene.
One person was killed and two others injured in a four-vehicle crash Sunday in the Harborview section of San Diego, authorities said.
The crash at the intersection of Grape Street and Harbor Drive was reported at 7:10 p.m., said the director of marketing communications for the Port of San Diego.
The fatally injured victim was pronounced dead at the scene and the injured patients were taken to a hospital, but their conditions were not immediately available.
A 16-year-old girl died and two others sustained minor injuries following a two-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon on Oregon 228 just east of Brownsville, Oregon State Police reported.
The victim's name will be released Monday, troopers said.
Troopers said the girl was driving an SUV westbound when it crossed the centerline and was struck on the left side by an eastbound tow truck.
The girl died at the scene.
Her 37-year-old mother, whose name will also be released Monday, received minor injuries, troopers said.
The Florida Highway Patrol said several teens were injured after the truck they were riding in the bed of struck a home Sunday afternoon.
Troopers said the accident happened just before noon at 7444 Kalani Street.
Yan Santiago, 16, was driving when he failed to make a turn on Kalani Street. Santiago lost control of the truck after he tried to overcompensate and hit the home.
Troopers said Santiago suffered only minor injuries, but four other teens riding in the back of his truck suffered more severe injuries.
A lawyer from Kansas is dead after the water scooter he was operating collided with a motorboat in southwest Florida.
The crash happened Sunday afternoon in Charlotte County.
A Charlotte County Fire and EMS spokeswoman told the stated that 54-year-old Lee Hollis of Leawood, Kan., died Monday. Doctors amputated one of his legs on Sunday afternoon.
A motorist died Sunday in American Fork when his car drifted into oncoming traffic.
Police did not disclose the name of the 33-year-old man on Sunday. About 5:14 p.m., he was driving a car east on Pioneer Crossing near Main Street. The car drifted right and drove over a raised median covered with shrubs, said American Fork police.
A pickup truck traveling west struck the car broadside, killing the driver. The pickup truck’s driver suffered minor injuries.
Police are investigating whether the 33-year-old man was distracted.
Three police officers were injured while investigating a car crash on Interstate 10, New Orleans police.
According to preliminary reports, the accident happened on I-10 near the Esplanade exit about 2 a.m.
Police said the officers were standing outside their cars when a car being driven by Percy Smith, 34, crashed into them, according to a NOPD spokesman.
The three officers - who were all on duty at the time of the accident - were brought to an area hospital where they were treated for minor injuries.
A train struck and killed a man Sunday night, the Wareham Police reported.
At about 7:15 p.m., members of the Wareham Police Department, Onset Fire Department and Wareham EMS were dispatched to the rear area of 3125 Cranberry Highway for a reported incident involving a pedestrian struck by a train. When they arrived at the scene, officers noticed a deceased man under the front of a Massachusetts Coastal Railroad passenger train, which had been traveling westbound at an apparent slow speed at the time of the impact, the police reported in a prepared statement.