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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.
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.
Police have identified the 22-year-old woman who died in a car crash in Shrewsbury.
Police tell the Telegram & Gazette that Lindsey Demoranville, of Grafton, was pronounced dead at the UMass Memorial Medical Center shortly after the car she was driving collided with another vehicle driven by a Worcester woman. The accident happened Wednesday night on Route 140, shutting the roadway down for several hours.
The other driver was treated for minor injuries after the crash, which remains under investigation.
A Stigler woman was killed in an accident about 7 p.m. Tuesday in Haskell County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.
Ginett Snow, 34, died from massive head injuries suffered in the accident about a mile west of Stigler.
Snow was a passenger in a 2012 Ford Mustang driven by Travis Russell, 24, who was not injured, the patrol reports.
No details of the accident were released pending an investigation. Snow was taken to a Stigler hospital where she was pronounced dead.
A wreck involving an 18-wheeler and a car closed Interstate 459 southbound Tuesday evening, halting traffic and tying up nearby routes for hours.
The collision occurred before 6 p.m. on a bridge near Acton Road and left a car dangling over the side of a bridge, a Rocky Ridge Fire District Chief said.
The female driver had to be extricated from the car through the front windshield, Lord said. She was treated at the scene and released.
Three people were transported to a hospital on Tuesday night after a car struck a semi-truck’s gas tank, causing both vehicles to catch fire.
A Papa John’s semi-truck was attempting to make a wide right turn off the Outer Loop near Noltemeyer Wynd about 7 p.m. when a car tried to pass on the right. The car struck the truck’s gas tank and caused both vehicles to ignite, a Louisville Metro Police spokeswoman said.
The car’s three occupants escaped and were transported to University of Louisville Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Smiley said.
A woman was killed in a crash in southwest suburban Hickory Hills Tuesday evening.
The woman, believed to be in her 50s, was killed just before 6 p.m. near the intersection of West 90th Street and South Roberts Road, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. Her identity was not immediately known.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, the medical examiner’s office said.
Hickory Hills police were still at the scene as of 8 p.m. and could not provide immediate detail
A Greensboro police officer was taken to the hospital after being hit by a vehicle while investigating another crash Tuesday night.
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The collision happened around 7:05 p.m. in the 3200 block of South Elm-Eugene Street. The female officer suffered non life-threatening injuries and has been released from the hospital.
The officer was investigating a collision when another vehicle going north on South Elm-Eugene Street lost control and hit the officer, Greensboro police said.
The crash is still under investigation. No charges have been filed against the driver.
Preliminary indications are that an icy section of roadway contributed to a crash that killed a 90-year-old Tremonton man.
The Utah Highway Patrol said Wednesday that troopers continued to investigate the Tuesday afternoon accident in Logan Canyon. However, motorists told UHP that the area of the Logan Canyon road where Gordon Larson’s Buick LeSabre went out of control, near Temple Fork Road, was slippery at the time of the 4:20 p.m. crash.
Larson, who was heading down the canyon about 15 miles east of Logan, plunged down an embankment into the river, landing upside down.