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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Buffalo, NYPolice in the Town of Hamburg are investigating a deadly car accident early Wednesday morning.
Police say around 4:55 a.m. a vehicle was traveling east on Lakeshore Road when it went off the roadway. The car hit a tree and rolled over onto it's roof.
The driver, 58-year-old Robert Voelker, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are continuing their investigation. They say alcohol doesn't appear to be a factor.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A man has died after he lost control of his car in Greenville County Wednesday morning, according to South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers.
The wreck happened at 4:45 a.m. on Fork Shoals Road near McKelvey Road, troopers said.
The Greenville County coroner identified the man as 27-year-old Aaron Robert Carlberg of Simpsonville.
The coroner said Carlberg was not wearing his seat belt when his car left the roadway and went up an embankment before hitting several trees. The vehicle overturned and Carlberg was partially ejected.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A mother has been charged with driving under the influence after her two young children were killed in a car crash, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
Troopers said Melissa Patton, 32, is charged with two counts of felony driving under the influence and driving under suspension.
According to troopers, Patton was driving a car at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday on Wells Highway when the car traveled off the road, hit a church sign and overturned.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Houston, TXPolice are investigating a fatal traffic accident from early New Year’s Day in west Houston.
It happened around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 6200 block of Westheimer.
Police said a minivan was driving on Westheimer when a 43-year-old victim attempted to cross the street and was hit.
Officials said the victim did not use the crosswalk and died at the scene.
The driver of the minivan stayed at the scene and was questioned by police.
Police do not believe alcohol played a role in the crash.
Names of those involved were not immediately released.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
San Diego, CAA driver led La Mesa police on a chase Wednesday night that entered Lemon Grove and ended in a crash and arrest. No one was injured.
At around 9:35 p.m. a La Mesa officer observed a driver in a white Dodge Charger run a stop sign at Waite Drive and Harris Street. The driver ignored the officer’s attempt to pull him over, kicking off a chase on state Highway 94 and city streets.
The Dodge’s driver turned off his lights and attempted to lose officers by running stop signs and red traffic signals, according to a statement from La Mesa police.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Memphis, TNAn off-duty Memphis Police officer was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 55, just before 11 Wednesday night.
Off-duty MPD officer, Johnathan Jones, 39, was in a white, late-model Chevy Silverado that somehow ended up wrapped around a pole on Interstate 55, north of Brooks Road.
According to authorities, he was sent to the MED in critical condition and died at the hospital Thursday morning.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A Greenville woman was hit and killed on Wade Hampton Boulevard late Wednesday night, authorities said.
Angela Bright, 55, of 2413 Wade Hampton Blvd., died of blunt force trauma about 30 minutes after she was hit, said Greenville County Coroner Parks Evans.
Bright was attempting to cross the road at 2420 Wade Hampton Blvd. when she was hit in the northbound lane by a 1982 Honda at 8:45 p.m., said a state trooper.
She was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital where she died, he said.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Portland, ORA pedestrian was critically injured when he was struck by a car at East Powell and Northeast Liberty Wednesday evening.
Witnesses told police the man was crossing Northeast Liberty Street near East Powell Boulevard when he was hit by an eastbound Honda.
The man was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
The driver of the Honda remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. Alcohol and speed do not appear to be factors, police said.
The roadways were closed for a time after the collision.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Houston, TXHouston Police are investigating the first fatal crash of 2014.
Officers say around 1 a.m. a Chevy pickup truck was traveling at a high rate of speed when the driver ran a red light and hit a white Mercedes at the intersection of Pierce and Milam in downtown Houston.
A husband and wife were inside that Mercedes. Police say the man died, the woman was taken to Memorial Hermann hospital. The driver and a passenger in the pickup truck were also hurt and taken to the hospital. Police believe alcohol was a factor.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Houston, TXA driver died after he slammed his car into the wall of the Westpark Tollway, according to HPD.
Police say the driver way going westbound on the tollway when the driver lost control around 2am on Wednesday.
The car collided with the wall. The driver died on impact.
Investigators believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.