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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
San Diego, CAAn 89-year-old man was struck and killed on a South Bay street Monday morning and police say the driver that hit him was under the influence of drugs.
The fatal accident happened shortly before 9 a.m. in the 500 block of East Eighth Street.
According to police, the driver drifted off the road, went up onto a sidewalk and hit the 89-year-old. The victim initially survived, but died shortly thereafter at the scene. His identity has not yet been released.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA 22-year-old Maple Grove man died Saturday in a snowmobile crash in north-central Minnesota, authorities said.
According to a statement from the Todd County Sheriff’s Office released Sunday:
Authorities received a report of a missing man at 11:23 a.m. Saturday.
Friends of Jared Wallenfelsz said they had last seen him driving a snowmobile away from his family’s cabin on Long Lake about 1:30 a.m. that morning.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA one-car crash into a utility pole in the 5900 block of Robinson Road at 4:35 p.m. Sunday is being blamed on speed and drunken driving.
Michael A. Neuland, 20, of Saunders Settlement Road, was charged by Niagara County sheriff’s deputies with driving while intoxicated, moving from a lane unsafely, reckless driving and speeding.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014Area:
Riverside, CAA crash involving a single golf cart on a Southern California course led to the arrest of an allegedly drunken cart driver whose intoxicated passenger had fallen out of the moving vehicle, authorities said.
Jeffrey Rose, 35, of La Quinta, was arrested Sunday afternoon on suspicion of driving under the influence at La Quinta Resort/PGA West Club House, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release Monday.
Police responded to the course about 5:30 p.m. Sunday to investigate a single-vehicle crash involving a golf cart.
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Friday, January 17, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYAided by a witness who followed a hit-and-run driver, police arrested a Youngstown woman on a variety of charges early Saturday stemming from an accident on the Robert Moses Parkway.
According to reports, the suspect struck a car driven by a Youngstown man around 5:30 a.m., then drove away from the scene. A witness to the accident followed the fleeing driver, and sheriff’s deputies were able to stop her car on Blairville Road a short time later. Carole R. Rossi displayed signs of intoxication and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.16, twice the legal limit, police said.
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Friday, January 17, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZTempe police have arrested a woman after she hit a pedestrian and caused a chain of car collisions in a Walmart parking lot.
Authorities say the female pedestrian is recovering for serious, non-life-threatening injuries after she was hit by 31-year-old Christy Kupper's vehicle Friday.
Police say Kupper collided with a vehicle in the intersection of Rural Road and Southern Avenue at about 6:20 p.m., causing that vehicle to hit another.
They say Kupper then sped away from the scene and into the Walmart parking lot.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014Area:
Cleveland-Akron, OHAn Avon Lake man has been charged with aggravated vehicular assault after he fled the scene of an accident and seriously injured a woman who was driving to work, police said.
Alexander Potoczak, 22, was driving an Audi on Bradley Road in Westlake when he hit another car around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday and fled the scene, police said.
"He took off, struck another car and caused some serious injury to the other driver," said Capt. Guy Turner, public information officer for the Westlake police department.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCPolice say a drunk driver crashed her Ford Explorer into a city owned building on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue early on Friday morning.
Anne Star Blomley is the suspect in the case and was being booked at the police department this morning.
Police say Blomley drove her Explorer right through the front door and wall of the city's small Cone Rec Center building at the intersection of MLK Avenue and Ryan Street just after 7:00 am, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 21-year-old motorist who drove into a house in Alden early today had a blood-alcohol content that was more than three times the legal limit, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported.
Zachary E. Olejniczak of Alden was heading north on Two Rod Road, shortly before 12:30 a.m., when he failed to stop at the intersection of Westwood Road, deputies said. His car went across the road and crashed into a home at 11664 Westwood Road, causing significant damage to the foundation.
The people who live there were home at the time but not injured, deputies said.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYClarksville’s town judge was arrested in Louisville last week after allegedly crashing into two parked cars and admitting to authorities he’d drank “too many” beers at Headliners Music Hall in Louisville.
Judge Mickey Weber, 32, of the 400 block of N. Taggart Ave., was charged with driving under the influence, criminal mischief and failing to show valid insurance, according to an arrest report.
Louisville Metro Police responded to an injury accident about 12:45 a.m. January 16 at Lexington Road and Hamilton Avenue, several blocks from Headliners.