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Austin Robert Lentz, 20, killed, and Donald Glen Ranger, 60, injured after truck and car collide on Belair Road in Fallston, Maryland

Date: 
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Area: 
Baltimore, MD
Maryland State Police say a man was killed and another man was hurt when a car and a box truck collided on Belair Road in Fallston. It happened about 6:55 a.m. Monday. Troopers say Austin Robert Lentz, 20, of Forest Hill was traveling north when his Mustang crossed the double yellow lines. Police say Lentz’s car hit a truck driven by Donald Glen Ranger, 60, of Mount Wolf, Pa. Lentz was pronounced dead at the scene. Ranger was taken to Shock Trauma in Baltimore. The crash is under investigation.

Dawn Toth, 36, William Walker, 29, and one other were injured in a two-vehicle head-on collision at the intersection of Kentucky Highway 348 and J.B. Copeland Road in Marshall County, Kentucky

Date: 
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Area: 
Paducah, KY-Cape Girardeau, MO-Harrisburg, IL

One arrested, two flee after car chase ends in crash in Bedford, Kentucky

Date: 
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Area: 
Louisville, KY

Police arrested a juvenile and were searching for two men on Sunday after a police pursuit and car wreck in Trimble County. Kentucky State Police said a car was pulled over for speeding in Henry County, then the driver fled and was chased by police. After the car crashed in Bedford shortly after 2 p.m., police arrested one juvenile male and charged him with fleeing and evading and criminal mischief. Police said he was on his way to juvenile detention Sunday evening. Two men escaped on foot, police said, and they issued an alert to Trimble County residents.

Pedro Ramirez Serrano, 30, killed after high-speed crash on Route 30 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania

Date: 
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Area: 
Washington, DC
A man was killed in Franklin County when his car went airborne in a crash on Route 30, according to state police. Pedro Ramirez Serrano, 30, of Fayetteville, was closely following another car "at a high rate of speed" around 5:35 p.m. Monday in the left westbound lane through Greene Township, according to state police news release. Ramierez Serrano tried to pass the car, but clipped the passenger-side rear bumper, according to state police. Ramirez Serrano's Nissan Rouge "went into the air and did a 180 degree turn," according to the news release.

Woman killed, and alleged DUI driver critical after he smashes car into pole on Roscoe Boulevard in Los Angeles, California

Date: 
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Area: 
Los Angeles, CA
A 20-year-old woman was killed Monday when an alleged drunken driver slammed the car she was traveling in into a pole, authorities said. The crash happened about 12:30 a.m. in the 17000 block of Roscoe Boulevard in Northridge, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The driver of a late-model Ford Focus was speeding when he failed to negotiate an S-shaped turn in the road and lost control, according to a LAPD Detective.

Man arrested, officer hurt after high-speed chase leads to crash in San Francisco, California

Date: 
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
A high-speed chase through some of the busiest streets of San Francisco ended in a crash, and the suspect was taken into custody. It started when police stopped the suspect in the Bayview District. Police said the suspect was acting suspiciously as though in possession of a weapon or contraband, and took off. Officers pursued the suspect on a high-speed chase through the Bayview, Taravel and Ingleside neighborhoods. At one point the suspect rammed a vehicle and almost hit a patrol car. Shots were fired, hitting the car but missing the suspect.

Branden Clark Savage, 21, and Joann Taitingfong, 32, injured in three-vehicle crash on Northeast 42nd Avenue in Vancouver, Washington

Date: 
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Area: 
Portland, OR

A man cited on suspicision of driving under the influence of intoxicants ran a stop light and caused a three-vehicle crash Monday morning in Vancouver. Branden Clark Savage, 21, of Vancouver was driving a 1995 Toyota Camry south on Northeast 42nd Avenue about 4:15 a.m. when, troopers say, he ran the stop light at state Highway 500. Two westbound vehicles were involved in the crash. A 2005 Jeep Cherokee crashing into the Camry, and the Camry crashed into a 2005 Toyota RAV4.

Marcus A. Hughes, 50, killed when he is struck by car while crossing Brice Road near Tussing Road in Columbus, Ohio

Date: 
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Area: 
Columbus, OH
A man was killed Monday night as a result of a crash on the far east side of Columbus. According to Columbus police, the crash happened shortly before 8:30 p.m. Monday along Brice Road near Tussing Road. According to investigators, 50-year-old Marcus A. Hughes, of Columbus, was trying to cross from the west side to the east side of Brice Road, when 57-year-old Gloria J. Hector, of Reynoldsburg, exited Interstate 70 eastbound and struck Hughes. Witnesses told police that Hughes was then struck by other vehicles, after the initial crash. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

One person injured, taken to hospital after 5 vehicle crash in Ohio.

Date: 
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Area: 
Columbus, OH

One person was hospitalized after a five-vehicle crash in Westerville Sunday afternoon.

The crash occurred at Corporate Drive and Westerville Road near state Route 161 at about 4 p.m.

Westerville fire responded to the scene, where one man was extricated from his vehicle. He was transported to Riverside Methodist Hospital in stable condition.

Blendon Township police said several lanes of Westerville Road were closed during the investigation and cleanup. The lanes reopened at about 5:15 p.m.

Tractor trailer overturns on I-20/59 in Alabama. No injuries reported.

Date: 
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Area: 
Birmingham, AL

A fuel spill resulting from an overturned 18-wheeler wreck has closed a section of Interstate 20/59 eastbound near Valley Road, according to police.

Authorities are diverting traffic off the interstate at Exit 118. Drivers can reenter the highway at Exit 119, the Fairfield Police Chief said.

The diversion likely will last for several hours. Davis urges drivers to avoid the area.