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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Police have identified the man arrested in a crash that injured two people on I-91 as Julio Perez, 27, of Springfield.

Perez is being charged with operating under the influence of liquor, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and operating with a suspended license.

The initial crash happened just after 1 a.m. in I-91's northbound lane between exits 3 and 4 , according to a Massachusetts State Police official.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014

22-year-old Tye Joshua Ballinger of Clearwater died in a high-speed single vehicle motorcycle crash Sunday.

The accident occurred about 1:45 a.m. Sunday in the 2900 block of State Road 580 between Landmark Drive and Countryside High School.

Ballinger was riding a 2012 Suzuki GSX R750 motorcycle west on State Road 580 when he failed to navigate the curve east of Landmark Drive, officials said. The bike crossed the median and the eastbound lanes before hitting a curb and a concrete block wall.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014
Police say a 19-year-old New Hampshire woman has died in a single-vehicle crash in Vermont. Scotlynn Silfies of Claremont was a passenger in a vehicle that left Route 131 in Weathersfield and overturned on Sunday night. The driver, 20-year-old Seth Smith, was treated for his injuries at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. Silfies was a 2013 graduate of Fall Mountain Regional High School and studied nursing at River Valley Community College. Authorities are investigating the crash.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
A Mississippi man died Sunday night after his car ran off the side of Interstate 55, struck an embankment and overturned several times before stopping in a water-filled creek, a State Police spokesman said. A Louisiana Master Trooper said Bobby E. Ross, 59, of McComb, Miss., was pronounced dead at the scene by the Tangipahoa Parish Coroner’s Office.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
A La Mesa man killed Sunday evening when the off-road vehicle he was driving rolled over and crashed has been identified as Erik Scott Decker, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. Decker, 33, was traveling alone in a residential area of unincorporated El Cajon when he drove a Polaris RZR all-terrain vehicle from a dirt road to the asphalt on Snow View Drive near Highway 80, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday. The Polaris overturned, partially throwing Decker from the driver’s seat and pinning him underneath the vehicle.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
A 20-year-old pregnant woman from Pennsylvania was hospitalized following a three-car crash Sunday afternoon. Jenna Robbins, of Ellsworth, 26 weeks pregnant, was in stable condition following the chain reaction crash on Milan Road near the Sonic Drive-In, Perkins Township, police said. She was treated at the hospital as a precautionary measure, police said, not for any serious injuries.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
A Madison boy was taken to a hospital Sunday night after being struck by a car while he was riding his bike. Madison police said the boy is believed to be 7-years-old and was struck when he pedaled out of a driveway and into the 1500 block of Trailsway. The boy’s injuries appear to be non-life-threatening. The car that struck the boy is described as a white Nissan.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Divers will search today for the body of an adult male who was in the truck with the boy and two others when it drove off a maintenance road on Billy Clapp Lake. The two other boys were taken to the hospital for treatment and are recovering. Two fishermen witnessed the truck go into the water around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Foreman said. The fishermen pulled the first two boys from the water, he said. A Sheriff’s deputy and a Fish and Wildlife official arrived on-scene and jumped into the canal to rescue the third boy, who was not breathing when he emerged, Foreman said.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014
The late afternoon sun could be to blame for a deadly Auburn crash Sunday, the Lee County Coroner said in a news release Monday. At 5:13p ct, Mary Hunta Owens, 85, of Auburn, died instantly when the vehicle she was riding in was stuck on the passenger side by an SUV, the coroner says.. The driver of the vehicle, 93-year-old Joseph Yeager, also of Auburn, was taken by helicopter to the Midtown Medical Center in Columbus. The accident happened at the intersection of Green Street and Samford Avenue.
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
Authorities will file homicide charges against a Burton Township man accused of crashing into an Amish buggy on Sunday, killing a 28-year-old man, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Lt. Mark Neff said charges of aggravated vehicular homicide, drunken driving and driving with a suspended license will be filed against Douglas S. Learn, 42. Learn is accused of driving with more than the legal limit of alcohol in his system and slamming into the buggy about 9 p.m. Sunday on Tavern Road north of Ohio 700.