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Family and friends of the two women killed Wednesday morning when a tree fell on their car say the victims lived their lives together and, tragically, died together.
Kaleigh Miller and Ashley Akra were killed when a tree fell on the car they were riding in on Blythe Island Highway. The Georgia State Patrol called it freak accident.
State police have released the names of the western Massachusetts couple whose 5-year-old daughter was killed when their minivan rear-ended a snow plow on an upstate New York road.
Troopers say Friday that the van was being driven by 56-year-old Ronald Baron of South Egremont, Mass. The van slammed into the back of a Town of Hillsdale plow truck Wednesday night on Route 23 in Columbia County, on the Massachusetts border.
Daniel S. McParlane, prominent Buffalo politician; sheriff's deputy; killed by alleged drunk driver.
A drunken driver was charged in the early Wednesday morning crash that killed Daniel S. McParlane, police said.
Robert J. Styn, of West Seneca, no age or exact address given, was charged with driving while intoxicated and released.
Other than indicating that bad weather also may have contributed to the collision, West Seneca police would not answer any further questions.
All lanes have reopend on U.S 50 after a tanker truck overturned and ruptured.
The crash happened on U.S. 50 at Bellview Drive near the Interstate 275 interchange just after 3 p.m.
The truck's contents and some fuel spilled. Dispatchers said the liquid that spilled is a nonflammable, non-hazardous metal cutting coolant.
Officials said it took 20 minutes to extricate the driver.
He was taken to the hospital. The extent of his injuries are unknown.
A woman was killed Tuesday evening in a hit-and-run in Talladega County.
The accident happened at 5:10 p.m. on Renfroe Road, eight miles west of Talladega, said an Alabama State Trooper spokesperson. The vehicle left the scene.
Killed in the crash was 38-year-old Cathy Cooper of Talladega. No other information was available, according to the Alabama State Patrol.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office is investigating a two-vehicle crash involving a semi on the city's west side Wednesday morning.
Deputies responded to Hague Avenue at Fisher Road in Franklin Township at about 8:27 a.m. Wednesday on a report of a crash.
Authorities say an 18-year-old California woman was hit and killed near Lovelock, Nev. while trying to flag down a pickup truck for help.
Nevada Highway Patrol officials say Michalea Vines of Antelope, Calif. died after being hit on Interstate 80 just after midnight on Tuesday.
Troopers say Vines was walking on the shoulder about four miles west of Lovelock when she stepped into the lane as she tried to signal a truck for help.
Officials say the driver, who’s from Winnemucca, pulled over and tried to help Vines, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
-All northbound lanes of Interstate 95 are back open Wednesday morning after an earlier wreck near PGA Boulevard.
The wreck involving multiple vehicles happened around 8:21 a.m.
It's unclear if anyone was injured.
A tow truck driver was injured when police said a vehicle hit him as he was tending to a crashed vehicle along a highway.
Randy Hammer owns Tigers Towing in Battle Creek and has 25 years of experience.
A Tigers Towing coworker told 24 Hour News 8 that Hammer was operating the levers on the side of his flat bed truck as he was tending to a vehicle that had slide off Interstate 94 and into a ditch near Helmer Road near Battle Creek.
He saw another eastbound vehicle coming toward him, after police said the driver lost control on the icy road.