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Friday, January 31, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 31-year-old Ohio woman was arrested overnight for snowmobiling while intoxicated after she crashed into an ice fishing shanty, narrowly missing the three occupants, on Chautauqua Lake, sheriff’s deputies reported.
Chautauqua County deputies responded at 1 a.m. to the reported accident. They found that Christina M. Black, of Burghill, Ohio, had been operating a 2006 Ski-Doo snowmobile northbound on the lake’s frozen surface, about 200 yards from the shore of Lakeside Park in Mayville, when she struck the shanty, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZThe driver of a school bus is dead after the bus crashed through a brick wall Wednesday morning, according to a Phoenix Police Department spokesman.
The driver was eastbound on Dove Valley Road just before 7 a.m. and was attempting a U-turn when the bus made a complete circle before crossing the median, striking the wall and stopping just short of a house on a county island just south of Carefree Highway and east of Interstate 17.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Omaha, NEAt least 10 people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped after an explosion and partial building collapse Monday at an Omaha animal feed processing plant.
Interim Omaha Fire Chief Bernie Kanger said he's not sure how many workers could be trapped in the wreckage of the International Nutrition plant. The fire that followed the explosion around 10 a.m. has been extinguished, but firefighters gingerly searched the structure, fearing that more debris could rain down.
"It's very extreme conditions" inside the plant now, Kanger said. "There is significant structural damage inside."
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Friday, January 17, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYAided by a witness who followed a hit-and-run driver, police arrested a Youngstown woman on a variety of charges early Saturday stemming from an accident on the Robert Moses Parkway.
According to reports, the suspect struck a car driven by a Youngstown man around 5:30 a.m., then drove away from the scene. A witness to the accident followed the fleeing driver, and sheriff’s deputies were able to stop her car on Blairville Road a short time later. Carole R. Rossi displayed signs of intoxication and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.16, twice the legal limit, police said.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCPolice say a drunk driver crashed her Ford Explorer into a city owned building on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue early on Friday morning.
Anne Star Blomley is the suspect in the case and was being booked at the police department this morning.
Police say Blomley drove her Explorer right through the front door and wall of the city's small Cone Rec Center building at the intersection of MLK Avenue and Ryan Street just after 7:00 am, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 21-year-old motorist who drove into a house in Alden early today had a blood-alcohol content that was more than three times the legal limit, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported.
Zachary E. Olejniczak of Alden was heading north on Two Rod Road, shortly before 12:30 a.m., when he failed to stop at the intersection of Westwood Road, deputies said. His car went across the road and crashed into a home at 11664 Westwood Road, causing significant damage to the foundation.
The people who live there were home at the time but not injured, deputies said.
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Sunday, January 12, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYAn Eden resident was charged with driving while intoxicated after a one-car crash Monday night on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, according to Erie County sheriff’s deputies.
A report of a property-damage accident on Route 438 at about 9:30 p.m. led to the arrest of Michael E. Schwanz, 29. Deputies said Schwanz submitted to a breath test that revealed a blood-alcohol content of .14.
Schwanz, who was released to a third party, is to appear in Brant Town Court.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAA car crashed through the main door of a Des Moines retirement center late Wednesday, but luckily no one was injured. Emergency personnel responded to the scene at the Judson Park Retirement Community at 23600 Marine View Drive, at about 9 p.m. after receiving a report of a car into a building. At the scene, they found that a woman visiting the center had accidentally driven her car through the main lobby window. The impact destroyed the window, and damaged some fixtures and furniture, but no one was hit.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA suspected drunk driver drove into the Travelodge Suites Phoenix Mesa and caused heavy damage to the building's exterior. Fortunately no one was injured. Police found and arrested the suspect not long after the crash.