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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
A motorcyclist died Wednesday night after running off the road in northwest Las Vegas. A 28-year-old motorcyclist was traveling on Centennial Center Boulevard near Ann Road about 9:30 p.m. when he failed to stay in his lane, police said. The man drove off the side of the road on his motorcycle and struck a palm tree. He died at the scene. His identity will be released by the Clark County coroner’s office.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Three members of an Allen, Texas, family were killed when their van collided head-on with a car on a highway in a remote area of northern Arizona. The Arizona Department of Public Safety identified those killed as 60-year-old Rebecca Simpson Stryker, 56-year-old James Lee Stryker and 16-year-old Travis Stryker. A twin brother of the teenager, 16-year-old Austin Stryker, was seriously injured and hospitalized in Flagstaff. The DPS said a car that crossed the center line first collided with a second car before it collided with the Strykers’ van.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Weather may have played a role, but alcohol was behind the arrest of a Buffalo motorist whose car went off Route 219 in the Town of Concord early Wednesday morning, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported. Lorie L. Darnley, 40, was arrested after a deputy investigated a report of a car off the road at about 2:40 a.m., finding her car stuck in the snow in the median near Trevett Road.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
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Austin, TX
One person is dead after a head-on collision on FM 969, or Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard, near Nixon Lane. Police say it happened just before 6 a.m. Wednesday when the driver of a Kia drove east in a westbound lane. A 33-year-old man driving the Kia crashed head on into a gray pickup truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the pickup truck was taken to an area hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Police do not yet know if alcohol or drugs played a factor in the crash.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

One person has died and eight people were injured in a series of accidents just west of Spokane this morning. The accidents have blocked Interstate 90 eastbound, and westbound traffic is moving stop-and-go. The accidents appear to have been caused by icy conditions on the road and drivers traveling too fast for the conditions. A pickup truck lost control near the overpass crossing West Medical Lake 4 Lakes Road. The pickup crossed the median and headed into oncoming traffic.

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
A Chicago police officer and two others were injured in an alcohol-related crash in the Englewood neighborhood early Wednesday. The crash, which involved a squad car, occurred about 12:45 a.m. in the 7400 block of South Halsted Street, police said. Two police officers from Gresham District were standing on the street conducting a traffic stop when a dark-colored SUV struck the passenger door of the officers’ squad car, police said. One officer and the two men who were initially stopped were struck by the car, police said.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Westbound lanes of Interstate 30 in Grand Prairie have reopened after a fiery semi crash closed several lanes overnight. The accident happened at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in the westbound lanes of I-30 a half mile east of MacArthur Boulevard. When Grand Prairie firefighters arrived on the scene an 18-wheeler was on fire. The driver was outside the big rig. Paramedics say he was alert and talking, he was taken to Methodist Hospital in Dallas for treatment.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
One person died Tuesday evening after a multi-vehicle accident in Charlestown, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said in a news release. The accident occurred on State Road 62 just before 5 p.m. The victim, who officials will not identify until the next of kin is notified, was ejected from a vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, according to the release.
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Monday, November 25, 2013

A Westwego woman has died from injuries she suffered Tuesday, when the motorcycle she was riding struck a concrete barrier on Clearview Parkway in Elmwood, the Louisiana State Police said Saturday. Renee Folse, 44, died Wednesday. The accident remains under investigation.

Folse was riding a 2000 Harley Davidson north on Clearview when she struck the concrete divider that separates the highway from the left turn lane at East Corporate Drive, Trooper 1st Class Melissa Matey said in a news release.

Folse, who was wearing a helmet, was ejected from the motorcycle.

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Monday, November 25, 2013

An 83-year-old woman is dead after she was struck by an SUV in Salt Lake.

The incident happened shortly after 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on Ala Napuaa Place.

Honolulu police say the woman was crossing the street when she was hit by a Ford Explorer.

The woman was taken to the Queen's Medical Center, where she later died.

The driver of the SUV, a 62-year-old man, was not injured.

On Thursday, the Honolulu Medical Examiner's office identified the victim as Matilde Cabanero of Salt Lake.