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Devin Braithwaite, 19, cited on multiple charges, after his car rear-ends another vehicle while he was allegedly trying to record an earlier fatal accident on I-5 near Vancouver.

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

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A Ridgefield man caused a second crash after he allegedly tried to film the scene of a fatal crash while he was driving. Devin Braithwaite, 19, was driving a 2011 Dodge Charger south on Interstate 5 near the Northeast 179th Street Friday night when he approached the scene of an earlier fatal crash. Earlier in the evening, Sergey A. Bondarchuk, 18, of Vancouver lost control of a 1997 Acura sedan and struck a tree. He was declared dead at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center. While passing the scene, Braithwaite tried to record the scene with his cell phone.

Amanda O’Malley, 23, a student at Assumption College, was struck and critically injured by a hit-and-run driver while walking her dog on Belmont Street in Worchester, Massachusetts

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

Boston, MA

Amanda O’Malley has a very long road to recovery ahead of her. Her family says they are happy she’s alive. “To leave someone one the road to die like that is a disgrace,” Amanda’s dad, Brian O’Malley, said. Speaking outside UMass Memorial Medical Center, Brian O’Malley said his 23-year-old daughter remains in the ICU after being hit by a car while walking the family dog on Belmont Street in Worcester Friday night. “It’s really scary. Thank God someone was there and called the ambulance. There was a car there that stopped and we want to thank that person,” Brian said.

Connie Malone, 43, Margel Swann, 51, and Christopher Ensey, 43, killed and Timothy Malone, 28, and 9-year-old child injured, after a head-on crash on Highway 6 in Pontotoc, Mississippi

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

Columbus-Tupelo-West Point, MS

The Mississippi Highway Patrol is investigating a head-on collision that killed three people in Pontotoc County. At 8:35 p.m. on Friday night, troopers were dispatched to the crash scene located on Highway 6, near Beulah Grove Road. The preliminary investigation indicates Margel Swann, 51, of New Albany, was driving a 1995 Isuzu pick-up east bound in the west bound lanes of the highway when his vehicle collided head-on into a 2004 Honda Accord, driven by Connie Malone, 43, of Thaxton.

Benjamin Piorsky, 30, struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on North Federal Highway in Pompano Beach, Florida

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL

A Pompano Beach woman was arrested after she struck and killed a motorcyclist Friday, then fled and tried to cover up the evidence, deputies said. Nadia Verdoni, 42, was charged with DUI manslaughter, leaving the scene involving death and tampering with evidence, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Sergey A. Bondarchuk, 18, killed after his car leaves the I-5 roadway while trying to changes lanes near Vancouver and crashes into a tree.

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

Portland, OR

A Vancouver man was killed late Friday in a single-car accident on Interstate 5 north of Vancouver, according to the Washington State Patrol. The WSP reported that Sergey A. Bondarchuk, 18, was driving a 1997 Acura sedan south on I-5 at 11:27 p.m. when he lost control while attempting to change lanes. The Acura went off the the freeway just north of Northeast 179th Street and struck a tree. Bondarchuk was declared dead at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, the WSP reported.

Car struck by an ATV at a parade in northeast Houston. No injuries reported.

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

Houston, TX

Authorities are investigating a crash that sparked a chaotic scene in northeast Houston. The wreck happened in the 1100 block of Homestead, where thousands of people have lined the street. They're out to welcome the Piney Woods Trail Riders, who set up camp there. A Houston police officer said the driver involved in the accident was hit by what may have been kids on an ATV. The driver is OK. The people on the ATV fled and police want to find them and talk to them. Officers said they may have been injured in that accident.

41-year-old male driver of stolen truck killed after he crashes into a power pole at high speed, knocking out power to an area of Pittsburg in Contra Costa County, California

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

The driver of a stolen pickup was killed after crashing into power poles in Pittsburg on Thursday night and knocking out power to nearly 1,200 PG&E customers in the surrounding area, police and utility officials said. Around 11:40 p.m., residents in the 600 block of Rockspray Circle heard a vehicle starting outside their home and looked outside to see someone driving off in their truck, police said. Police said the residents tried to follow the driver in another car, but stopped after he began speeding at about 70 miles per hour on West 10th Street.

10-year-old boy struck and injured by a hit-and-run vehicle on Norwich Avenue in Norwich, Connecticut

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

Hartford & New Haven, CT

Police have arrested a driver for a hit-and-run incident in Norwich Friday night. Officers responded to 159 Norwich Ave where a 10-year-old child was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene just before 7:00 p.m. According to police, the child suffered a leg injury and was taken to William W. Backus Hospital. His injuries are non-life threatening. The driver, Theresa Morgan of Norwich, was arrested a short time later after the accident. Morgan is charged with evading responsibility and released on a $2,500 bond. She is scheduled to appear in Norwich Superior Court on March 11th.

Bernard Mazurczak, 57, Jason Smith, 40, seriously injured, taken to hospital, after a car and snowplow crash near the Town of North Collins in Erie County.

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

Buffalo, NY

A 57-year-old Blasdell man and a 40-year-old West Valley man were both hospitalized after a two-car crash at about 12:20 p.m. Friday at New Oregon Road and Genesee Road in the Town of North Collins, the Erie Count Sheriff’s office reported. Bernard Mazurczak of Blasdell was heading south on New Oregon when he reportedly failed to yield the right of way to a westbound snowplow at the intersection with Genesee Road. The two vehicles collided in the intersection.

6-year-old boy killed, 10-year-old boy, Ericka M. Gorremans, 32, Gage W. Musgrave, 84, seriously injured, taken to hospital, after a 3-car wrong-way crash on northbound I-5 near Vancouver in Clark County.

Date:

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Area:

Portland, OR

6-year-old boy died and three other people were hospitalized Friday following a wrong-way car crash on Interstate 5 just north of Vancouver. The accident happened just before 2 p.m. when an 84-year-old Vancouver man driving south in the northbound portion of I-5 crashed head-on into a car driven by a La Center woman who had two children in her vehicle. Gage W. Musgrave was driving a white 2005 Toyota Avalon, according to the Washington State Patrol accident report, when he collided with a 2008