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Trooper: Acme pickup driver reading text crashes head-on into car

Date:

Thursday, September 13, 2012

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A pickup driver from Acme was arrested Friday morning, Sept. 14, after he crossed the center line while reading a text message and crashed into a Honda Civic, seriously injuring the other driver, according to Washington State Patrol.What to do immediately after a serious accident

Seeking witnesses in fatal motorcycle crash that killed Randy Haynes on September 10 on I-90 near Cle Elum

Date:

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Area:

Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick, WA

Randy Haynes, 51, of Renton died in the crash, which occurred Sept. 10 at 4:17 p.m. in the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 near milepost 88, close to the Indian John Hill Rest Area and about four miles east of Cle Elum. Learn more about motorcycle accidents and how they are dealt with legally at this link.

Thomas Appleton sentenced to 10 years in death of 18-year-old Samuel Taylor in Sept. 2012 street racing crash in Charlottesville, Virginia

Date:

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Area:

Charlottesville, VA

A man convicted of participating in a street race wreck that killed another man will spend a year in prison. Thomas Appleton received a 10-year sentence Wednesday in Albemarle Circuit Court. Judge Cheryl Higgins then suspended nine years of the sentence. Appleton also will lose his driver's license for a year. Higgins says he must then petition the court for the license's reinstatement. Prosecutors say Appleton and 18-year-old Samuel Taylor were racing on Sept. 5, 2012, when their vehicles collided. Taylor's car ran off the road, hit a stump, went airborne and crashed into a tree.

7-year-old child killed, four others injured in a rollover collision at Highway 46 and Blanco Road in Comal County, Texas

Date:

Monday, August 13, 2012

Area:

Central Texas

68-year-old pilot died in a small plane crash in Winnebago County, Wisconsin

Date:

Monday, August 13, 2012

Area:

Green Bay-Appleton, WI

Queniya Tykia Shelton, 7, was ejected and killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash that ended a high-speed crash on Interstate 85 in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Date:

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Area:

Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson, SC

Dan Peterson, 30, struck and killed by hit-and-run driver while riding bicycle on Speer Boulevard and Lincoln Street in Denver, Colorado

Date:

Monday, July 23, 2012

Dan Peterson ws riding on Speer Boulevard and Lincoln Street at 2:20 a.m. when he was struck by a driver that fled the scene. He passed away several days later with family at his side. Authorities are still searching for the driver that killed him.