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A Washougal man was hurt when his car veered off of state Highway 14 Sunday evening and struck a tree.
Jeffrey S. Lindsay, 35, was treated for his injuries at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center and then released.
Police in Aurora say a fatal crash that took place late Sunday night might have been a hit-and-run.
A woman was found in the road at East 4th Way and Kenton Street at approximately 10:19 p.m. The woman was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Witnesses told police they saw a tan or beige Chrysler or Dodge minivan near the scene. Police have since talked to the driver of the minivan and said he wasn’t involved.
Police say if a vehicle was involved it may have front end damage.
The name of the victim has not been released.
State police say a 21-year-old Massachusetts man has died and three other Ithaca College students were injured in an SUV crash caused when the driver swerved to avoid a deer.
Troopers say the students were heading back to college from their Thanksgiving break on Interstate 88 when the accident happened shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday in Cobleskill, 35 miles west of Albany.
Police say the 2002 Santa Fe rolled several times after the driver lost control trying to avoid a deer that came from the center median.
State Department of Transportation anti-icing crews coated Interstate 290 in Worcester with salt brine at 5:45 a.m. Sunday, about an hour before icy road conditions triggered a chain reaction crash that ultimately involved 65 vehicles, including three tractor trailers, officials said.
A DOT spokesman said today the DOT activated its anti-icing forces in central Massachusetts around 2:30 a.m. in reponse to weather forecasts.
All nine people critically injured in a two-vehicle crash near Wellington were expected to make a full recovery, Utah Highway Patrol troopers said Sunday.
A Chevrolet truck was westbound on State Route 6 in Carbon County — about 11 miles east of Wellington — about 5:05 p.m. Saturday when one of the tires on the truck separated, the UHP reported.
The truck veered to the right, then back to the left into eastbound traffic, where it was T-boned by an oncoming Nissan Pathfinder.
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a fatality at the Glamis sand dunes near Brawley involving an off-road vehicle and a pedestrian.
Officers said Richard Hollien Jr., 51, of Phelan was struck by a sand rail about 3 p.m. Saturday and died about 90 minutes later at Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio.
A 35-year-old man from Upland was driving about 20 to 30 mph down a hill and when he reached the bottom he lost control of the vehicle and hit two parked cars and then another sand rail. The impact sent that vehicle into a blue truck and Hollien, the CHP said.
A man died this morning after being struck by a Union Pacific freight train in the Foothill Farms area, according to authorities.
The man had been laying across the tracks, Union Pacific spokesman said in a voicemail message.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department and Union Pacific officials responded to the scene of the collision, which occurred about 9 a.m. near Roseville Road and Palm Avenue. The man’s identity was not available.
The train was heading from Chicago to Lathrop. It has been moved from the area, but the investigation continues, he said.
Officials are investigating the death of a man and what caused him to veer off the road in his truck, swiping a tree, then coming to rest in the median of the road Sunday morning.
Officials said 55-year-old Shawn Earl Sullivan was traveling westbound on Wonderwood Drive around 9:55 a.m. when he traveled over the raised concrete curb, striking a small JTS Community Shuttle sign.
Sullivan then continued off of the curb and across all westbound lanes of Wonderwood Drive, going in the southwest direction before traveling over another curb and onto the center grass median.
Only the left lane of Interstate 275 was open at Reed Hartman Highway after a multi-vehicle accident.
Dispatchers said several vehicles were involved in an accident just before 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
At least one victim was flown to the hospital, dispatchers said.
Another victim, a child, also suffered serious injuries.
A black Jeep was one vehicle involved in the accident. Officers did not say when all lanes would be open.
The Hamilton County Coroner had been called to the scene but police officers would not confirm that someone was killed in the crash.