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Friday, February 28, 2014

Police say an MTA bus struck and killed a 21-year-old woman in Brooklyn early Saturday.

Marisol Martinez was walking on Union Avenue in Williamsburg at around 1:30 a.m. when a bus made a turn and hit her.

Martinez was declared dead after being taken to Woodhull Hospital.

Martinez’s family says she was a full-time student at Hunter College and that she was on her way back home from getting pizza with friends when she was hit by the bus.

Police say charges haven't been brought against the bus driver but the accident is still being investigated.

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Police are investigating the cause of an early morning crash that killed the passenger and left the driver with life threatening injuries.

The one-car accident happened on westbound US 40 at Fairview in Independence, Mo.

According to the Independence Police Department, the Chevrolet Trailblazer was headed westbound on US 40 when it left the road and overturned. The passenger of the vehicle was ejected. That person was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver was extricated from the vehicle and was taken to an area hospital with life threatening injuries.

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Two men suffered injuries when they crashed their vehicle into North Lake in Irvine.

The incident occurred around 9 p.m. Friday. The car was traveling southbound on Yale Avenue when it struck a retaining wall, went airborne and landed in the lake. The car was fully submerged upside down.

The two men, in their early 20s, were able to get out of the car and swim to the shore. They both suffered moderate injuries. They said they were the only occupants in the car at the time of the crash.

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Authorities are investigating a fatal crash that happened just after midnight near 43rd Avenue and Bell Road in Phoenix.

The driver of a Nissan Sentra was traveling southbound on 43rd Avenue and had just driven through the Bell Road intersection when they realized they had missed their turn, according to a spokesperson for the Phoenix Police Department.

The Sentra’s driver attempted to make a U-turn and turned the car directly into the path of an oncoming Hyundai Santa Fe, resulting in a driver’s-side collision.

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Police are looking for the driver of a Honda Passport who fled after crashing an SUV into another vehicle on U.S. 30 near Astoria, critically injuring the other driver, police said.

Oregon State Police is asking anyone who might be able to identify the driver to contact their Northern Command Center at 800-452-7888.

According to preliminary information from the Oregon State Police, the crash occurred when a gray 1996 Honda Passport crossed the center line of U.S. 30 near milepost 88 and collided head-on with a 2002 Dodge Neon carrying three people.

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Friday, February 28, 2014

A four-year-old Granite City, Ill. girl and 11-year-old Granite City, Ill. boy are dead after a Saturday afternoon crash in Jefferson County, Missouri.

Four-year-old Bryleigh Greene and 11-year-old Ethan Price were passengers in the car that was struck. Three other people were injured.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident happened at approximately 5:30 p.m. near the intersection of Frontier and State Roads.

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Friday, February 28, 2014

Police said one person died after an accident in Kirkwood Saturday evening.

Authorities said the driver, Vladimir Paradovskiy, 67, was driving on Interstate 270 when he veered off the right side of the highway and struck the guardrail. Police said he then over-corrected and hit the concrete median.

He was taken to an area hospital but later died.

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Friday, February 28, 2014
Tarpon Springs Police have identified two people killed in a crash Saturday on U.S. 19. Dive teams members with the Tarpon Springs PD found one vehicle in this retention pond. Nicholas Ray Osborn, 37, and Marco S. Valez, 39, of Clearwater died when the 1998 Mercedes SLK 230 they were in lost control in a northbound lane and crashed into a pond just before 3 a.m. The crash happened at the intersection of U.S. 19 and Martin Luther King Jr. Investigators think the Mercedes may have been racing a white car that witnesses saw leaving the area.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
A snowmobile accident Saturday claimed the life of a 53-year-old Eagan man, the Aitkin County Sheriff’s Office reported. Paul R. Schanno II was operating a 2012 Polaris Rush on a trail north of Savanna Portage State Park about 4:40 p.m. Saturday when he collided with a tree at a curve in the trail. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
A Hamilton man died after his car was struck by a train on Saturday morning. The Butler County Sheriff's Office said Johnny Robbins, 38, of Hamilton, was traveling northbound on Hamilton-Eaton Road just after 1 a.m. when his car failed to negotiate a curve, crossed the center line and hit a guardrail before coming to rest on railroad tracks as a freight train approached. The train struck Robbins' car and pushed it along the tracks for approximately 1,600 feet before the train could come to a complete stop. Robbins was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash remains under investigation.