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Wednesday, February 5, 2014Area:
Houston, TXHouston police arrested a woman Thursday morning after officers said she drove the wrong way on the road and crashed into a patrol car.
Officers said that woman was driving on Almeda around 12:45 a.m. Thursday when she turned down the wrong side of the road and started driving against traffic.
An officer traveling in those lanes saw the driver and tried to avoid her. The woman ended up clipping the back of the police car. She then lost control and drove into a large ditch on the side of the road.
No one was injured in the accident.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014A driver, suspected off being under the influence, lost control of their vehicle crashed in front the Cliff House in San Francisco Thursday morning.
The roads were slick with rain but police said it was probably the suspected drinking of the driver that caused a single-vehicle collision.
The driver of an Silver BMW SUV drove down Point Lobos Avenue but failed to negotiate the turn at the Cliff House plowing over a sign post, smashing though a parked pickup truck and demolishing a concrete planter before finally coming to rest in front of the building.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014Area:
San Diego, CAA woman believed to have been drinking and two children in her care were hospitalized late Wednesday after being hit by a car while jaywalking in El Cajon.
The accident was reported just before 11 p.m. on Jamacha Road at Lexington Avenue, a El Cajon police Lt. said.
The 22-year-old woman from El Cajon said she was the godmother to the girls, ages 2 and 4-years-old, police said. All three suffered minor injuries.
The 59-year-old man who was driving the SUV that struck the trio stopped. He was not injured and not cited, police said.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA Depew man was charged with violating Leandra’s Law after a deputy discovered him impaired by drugs while he was driving with two children in his car, the Erie County Sheriff’s reported.
A deputy responded to an accident involving two vehicles on Main Street at Sandridge Road in Alden about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday. During his investigation, the driver of one of the vehicles, David Wilczak, 30, admitted he had been using heroin that day, but he refused to submit to a blood test, according to the deputy.
Wilczak had two children, ages 5 and 9, in his vehicle at the time of the accident.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014Area:
Indianapolis, INAn Anderson woman was injured Wednesday morning after a snowmobile she was on crashed. Police say the driver was drunk.
Indiana conservation officers responded to the 20400 block of Creek Road in Noblesville for a crash around midnight Wednesday. Upon investigation, police say Joel Hackleman, 42, of Noblesville, was driving the snowmobile and drove into a ditch. Hackleman was ejected. His passenger, Rebecca Benson, 32, was over the handlebars of the vehicle.
Benson was taken to St. Vincent Hospital for a serious leg injury.
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Monday, February 3, 2014Area:
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TXTwo Irving Police officers escaped injury Tuesday night after a woman driving the wrong way at high speeds hit them along State Highway 161.
Irving officers were notified around 11:20 p.m. that a woman was driving the wrong-way – travelling south in the northbound lanes of the turnpike near State Highway 114.
While one group of officers pursued her at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour in the southbound lanes, another officer approached the suspect in the northbound lanes and was struck by the woman’s SUV near Conflans Road in Irving.
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Monday, February 3, 2014Area:
New Orleans, LAA motorist from Jefferson died Monday night from injuries he received in a three-pickup-truck crash on Louisiana 25 near Folsom, authorities said. A driver from Mount Hermon was booked with vehicular homicide, DWI and improper lane usage.
The victim was identified by State Police as Gary White, 66. He died at LSU Interim Public Hospital in New Orleans. The other drivers were not injured, police said.
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Monday, February 3, 2014Area:
Boston, MAA Rhode Island woman allegedly drove some 5 miles in the wrong direction on the Southeast Expressway early today and slammed into two vehicles including a snowplow, officials said.
She is scheduled to appear in court here today on charges of operating under the influence and leaving the scene of the two crashes, according to State Police.
Brenda Jarillo, 33, was arrested by State Police in Dorchester near Exit 12 around 3:30 a.m. today after she had driven in the wrong compass direction since being involved in a crash near Exit 8 in Quincy, officials said.
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Sunday, February 2, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA man who was driving the wrong way on the Niagara Thruway for several miles early Monday morning and then struck a roadside construction crane is facing charges of drunken driving, according to Lewiston Police.
Douglas P. Pytlik Jr., 32, of Linwood Avenue, North Tonawanda, was charged with felony driving while intoxicated and reckless driving.
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Sunday, February 2, 2014Area:
Everett-Bellingham WATwo men were injured when their pickup truck went off Blaine Road, sliding into a ditch and hitting an embankment early Monday, Feb. 3. David L. Rebman, 43, was driving a 1975 pickup truck southbound on Blaine Road toward Shipyard Road when it veered off the road about 12:08 a.m. Rebman and passenger Colin J. Golden, 25, were transported to St. Joseph hospital. Rebman was treated and discharged, and Golden remained hospitalized in stable condition as of Monday. Golden was not wearing a seatbelt. It was unclear if Rebman wore a seat belt.