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Monday, July 14, 2014

Two drivers are killed and a third is injured in a multi-vehicle crash in western Wisconsin.

St. Croix County sheriff's officials say 34-year-old Amanda Day, of Osceola, struck a vehicle she was trying to pass on Highway 35 in Somerset Tuesday afternoon. That vehicle went spinning into the ditch.

Day's vehicle then hit an oncoming car driven by 83-year-old Goldie Culver, of Apple Valley, Minnesota. Day died at the scene of the crash. Culver was taken by helicopter to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, where she later died.

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Monday, July 14, 2014

An 85-year-old woman was killed Tuesday in a three-vehicle crash in south-central Kansas, authorities said.

The accident occurred at 8:05 a.m. on K-14 highway, about eight miles south of Hutchinson.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu was westbound on Arlington Road, failed to yield at the stop sign at K-14 highway and pulled in front of 2001 Ford Explorer, which was southbound on K-14.

After the Chevroleet and Ford collided, the Ford then struck a Ford F-350 pickup truck that was stopped at the stop sign on eastbound Arlington Road.

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Monday, July 14, 2014

Ticonderoga police have identified the elderly driver who died in an accident Tuesday in Essex County.

90 year old Tobia Secone of Ticonderoga was killed in an accident on Route 74 and Harris Point Way in Ticonderoga.

The accident happened just after 9:25 a.m. Friday.

Police said a tractor trailer traveling east on Route 74 struck the SUV Secone and his wife were driving.

Secone was pronounced dead at the scene.

Secone's wife, Margaret Secone, 81, was taken to Fletcher allen, where she was listed in stable condition.

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Monday, July 14, 2014

The Missouri Highway Patrol has identified the man killed early Tuesday morning in a traffic accident in Kearney, Mo.

James Davis, 61, died in the one-vehicle accident on I-35 near 92 Hwy in Kearney, Mo. A passenger, John Clark, 64, sustained moderate injuries.

According to authorities, Davis was driving a 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche when — for an unknown reason – the roadway, struck a guard rail and subsequently overturned. The accident happened in the southbound lanes of I-35.

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Monday, July 14, 2014
A Stevinson woman was killed Monday afternoon in a two-car accident on Highway 140 at Mud Slough. A Stevinson woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident on Highway 140 Monday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. The Merced County Sheriff’s Department identified the deceased as 69-year-old Patricia Willis.
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Monday, July 14, 2014
A man is dead after police say he was shot in his car and tried to drive away but hit a house in Springfield Township. Officials said the car ran into a home in the 10000 block of Sprucehill Drive about 6 p.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the car's driver suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. Officers identified the victim as Anthony Hinton, 27. As police examined the aftermath of the deadly shooting, one mother told WLWT News 5's Jackie Congedo that her 7-year-old son saw it all.
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Monday, July 14, 2014
The man who was killed in a crash on Interstate 81 in Franklin County earlier Tuesday morning was identified as a Virginia man by state police. Steven Lee Winfrey, 51, of Roanoke, Virginia, was killed when his tractor-trailer veered off the roadway Exit 10 for Route 914 in Guilford Township on northbound I-81 in Franklin County just before 5 a.m. The truck crashed into a cement storm drain and burst into flames, according to previous reports from state police.
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

A jogger was struck and killed by a dump truck Monday while running along a popular cut-through route for drivers looking to avoid Route 10 traffic, according to press reports.

Benjamin Feinn, 75, of Cheshire, was hit around 2:15 p.m. as he jogged south on Mount Sanford Road near Brooksvale Avenue, according to Cheshire police, who continue to investigate.

Feinn, who was only about half a mile from his New Haven County home, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

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Sunday, July 13, 2014
Police have identified a tractor-trailer driver killed in a crash on I-70 in Putnam County on Monday. The driver was Robert P. Deakin, age 46, of Avon, Indiana. The coroner found the cause of death was blunt force trauma. The crash occurred at around 12:36 pm Monday in the westbound lanes on I-70 near the 30 mile marker. Indiana State Police say traffic was slowing down for a construction zone and moving into the right lane. A westbound tractor-trailer failed to slow down and rear-ended another tractor-trailer. The impact sent that vehicle into a passenger car.
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

A retired officer in the Tennessee National Guard was killed in an off-road vehicle wreck.

Retired Major Lee Sharber died when he lost control of his off-road vehicle around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. He was 44.

Sharber was on a dune buggy with his girlfriend, Leslie Johansen, on Motlow Road when the vehicle hit a patch of uneven surface.

"They were on the way back to her house and he leaned over and kissed her and said, ‘I love you so much,' and she said she noticed the vehicle was veering off the road, hit the telephone pole," said Leon Sharber, Lee Sharber's dad.