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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
A 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.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A school bus was involved in a two-vehicle wreck in Eureka on Thursday. The bus came to a stop in a ditch after it apparently hit a pickup truck on Rt. 109 just south of Interstate 44 around 6:50 a.m. It appeared the bus may have also hit a yield sign, which was seen on the ground at the scene. No students were onboard the bus. Two people were transported to the hospital with minor injuries.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
A 5-year-old girl died and another woman is in serious condition after a crash early Thursday morning on the Southside. According to reports by the Florida Highway Patrol, 28-year-old Crystle Heidrick was driving a 2008 Chevy Impala northbound on Interstate 295, two miles east of Philips Highway, in the left emergency lane. FHP said around 12:45 a.m., Heidrick entered the center median when the left emergency lane ended, turned to the right and over-corrected.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
A wrong-way crash on State Road 528 has lanes closed and traffic backed up for five miles in Brevard County. The crash was reported on westbound SR 528 at mile marker 36 just after 10:30 a.m. Thursday. The Florida Highway Patrol said a vehicle, driven by an elderly woman, was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes, sideswiped one car and and then turned around to travel westbound to the Narcossee Road exit. The car the woman crashed into hit another vehicle, which ignited. The driver of that vehicle suffered minor injuries.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Riverside County officials say 14 people were hospitalized after a bus hydroplaned and barreled into oncoming traffic in the Homeland area Thursday. Officials say the Riverside Transit Agency bus was traveling westbound on Highway 74 near Perris at speeds of 45 mph when it began to hydroplane just before 9 a.m. The bus reportedly veered into oncoming traffic, colliding with a Pontiac sedan. Four vehicles were involved in the crash, including a tow truck. Fourteen people were transported to local hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to moderate.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A 65-year-old woman was clinging to live after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn Thursday. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was crossing Eastern Parkway midblock near Utica Ave. in Crown Heights when she was hit by a westbound Nissan Murano with New Jersey plates about 10:50 a.m., officials said. She was rushed to Kings County Hospital with life-threatening injuries, cops said. The SUV sped away south on Schenectady Ave., police said.

 

 

 

Date: 
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Area: 
Denver, CO
A trooper with the Colorado State Patrol was seriously injured when a van hit her patrol car while investigating a crash. Trooper Adeline Roybal was in her patrol car on the left shoulder and median of Interstate 70 near mile marker 292 around 10:45 p.m. Thursday when she was hit by a 1996 Ford van. The collision was so intense it pushed Roybal’s Crown Victoria and another patrol car into the median. Roybal suffered serious injuries and was taken to Aurora South Medical Center for treatment.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
State police say a car spun out of control on a northwestern Indiana highway and plowed into a trooper's parked cruiser. Police say Trooper Brandon Henderson stopped about 4:30 a.m. Thursday at the scene on Interstate 65 in Merrillville where a pickup truck had hit a slick spot and crashed into the highway's guardrail. Henderson parked his cruiser behind the truck with its emergency lights on and was out talking with the driver when a car also lost control on the slick road. That car slammed into the trooper's car and pushed it into the wrecked truck.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A three-car collision in north Spokane on Thursday night around 8 p.m. injured two people. Two cars were driving north on Nevada Street at high speed when one struck an SUV attempting to turn in front of the cars. The first collision caused the first car to fly into the other speeding car at the intersection with Cozza Drive. The drivers of the two northbound cars were taken to the hospital, one with critical and the other with serious injuries. The driver and a passenger of the SUV were not injured. Nevada was closed for several hours as investigators worked at the scene.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The Las Vegas woman killed in a hit-and-run crash Thursday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office. According to Las Vegas police, 49-year-old Luv Maria Favela-Martinez was crossing Nellis Boulevard near Cedar Avenue at approximately 8:45 p.m. and was hit by a white four-door car that did not stop. Favela-Martinez died on the scene from blunt force trauma to the head.