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Police have identified the Maine woman killed in a fiery crash in Fairfield last week.
Authorities say 39-year-old Tammy Sue Harl of Norridgewock died after she lost control of her car on Route 139 and slid into the path of an oncoming pickup truck on March 20. Police say icy road conditions contributed to the crash.
The driver of the truck was not seriously injured.
Harl’s 1996 Plymouth Neon was incinerated.
The office of the chief medical examiner used DNA testing to identify Harl.
A pedestrian was killed after being struck by a vehicle in Owings Mills Thursday afternoon, Baltimore County police said.
At about 4:10 p.m., Joseph Michael Murphy, 58, of the unit block of Winchester Avenue in Westminster, was struck by a Nissan Altima at Reisterstown Road and Kenmar Avenue, police said.
Early police investigation found that Murphy was crossing the northbound lanes of Reisterstown Road from the east side when he walked into the turn lane that the Altima was traveling in, and was hit by the vehicle.
A 16-year-old Steele Canyon High School junior died in a head-on collision on his way to school Thursday, after getting into a minor crash about 24 hours earlier.
Julian Fraire of El Cajon, who got his provisional driving license in September, veered into oncoming traffic on Steele Canyon Road in Rancho San Diego about 7:25 a.m., authorities said.
The teen was driving a Chrysler Town and Country minivan southbound when he collided with a northbound Ford F450 pickup north of Vista Cielo Drive, California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Pearlstein said.
Police are investigating a pair of unrelated fatal head-on crashes in Maine.
Police say 71-year-old Richard Leighton of Winthrop died in a crash on Route 202 in town at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday.
Leighton was driving west when a vehicle coming in the opposite direction crossed the centerline and struck his pickup truck. The Winthrop woman in the other vehicle was hospitalized.
Police say the road was slushy at the time but it's unclear if weather played a factor.
Authorities have identified the truck driver killed in a fiery wreck on Interstate 440 Thursday as a Jacksonville man.
Arkansas State Police say Terry Harrell, 60, died in the accident Wednesday afternoon near the Fourche Dam Pike exit.
Harrell was driving 2009 Freightliner east on the highway when it burst into flames after colliding with a Chevrolet Impala, police said at the scene. The truck then hit a second eastbound semi truck, which also caught fire.
A pedestrian was seriously injured in a crash that closed most of south Interstate 5 in downtown San Diego for about 40 minutes Thursday afternoon, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
A witness said the person was hit by a passing vehicle while running from the right shoulder of the freeway near Park Boulevard about 1:20 p.m., according to the CHP’s website.
Four of the freeway’s six lanes were closed and traffic was backed up to Old Town Avenue while the crash was investigated.
Four vehicles, including two big rigs, collided on the 91 Freeway in Buena Park, killing one driver and injuring another person.
Authorities say the accident happened on the eastbound lanes between the Knott Avenue and Beach Boulevard exits at about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday.
It took paramedics about 10 minutes to extract a 58-year-old driver from a big rig that had slammed into a stalled FedEx big rig in the middle lanes. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was later declared dead.
A police officer driving a patrol car with lights and sirens on struck a pickup in a northwest Oklahoma City intersection Thursday.
The officer was taken by ambulance to a hospital, but the pickup driver was not hurt, said police Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow. The name of the officer was not released. She said his injuries were not life-threatening.
About 7:25 a.m. the officer was eastbound on NW 36 when he went through a red light at the Interstate 44 Service Road intersection with NW 36, said a witness The witness was westbound on NW 36 and stopped at the light.
A motorcyclist was killed early Thursday in Chula Vista after he drove off the roadway and hit a light pole.
The 27-year-old man was on E Street at Toyon Lane about 2:10 a.m. when he lost control of the Suzuki bike, Chula Vista police said.
The Medical Examiner's Office identified him as Charles Anthony Sanfilippo II of Chula Vista. The agency said he was going west when he swerved and hit a pole along the south curb.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash, police said.
The rider died of his injuries while en route to the hospital, police said.
A 10-year-old girl was taken to Billings Clinic after being hit by a car Wednesday at about 5:30 p.m. in front of Miles Avenue School, 1601 Miles Ave.
The girl suffered no life threatening injuries, an officer who responded to the scene said.
The officer also said the driver was not at fault.