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Tavares police are investigating a plane crash on Thursday afternoon after the pilot miscalculated the distance to land on a lake.
Police said the pilot attempted to land a SeaRey plane on Lake Idamere but miscalculated the distance and landed in the shrubs in the shoreline of the lake.
The pilot complained of a back injury and was taken to a hospital, according to police.
Highway 225 has reopened after an accident shut down the eastbound lanes near the Beltway 8 East.
The motorcycle accident was reported just before 7 a.m. Thursday.
Officials say a motorcyclist lost control at a railroad overpass.
Life Flight was called to the scene to transport the driver to Memorial Hermann Hospital in critical condition.
Traffic was being diverted to the frontage road at the Center Street exit while emergency crews were on scene.
All lanes reopened around 9:40 a.m.
Authorities are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that happened just after midnight Thursday on the far west side of San Antonio.
Police said an unidentified man was riding his Harley Davidson southbound on Highway 151, near Rodgers Road and Military Drive, when he failed to negotiate the curve of the highway and drove the motorcycle off the roadway.
According to the San Antonio Police Department, the man was not wearing a helmet when he was thrown from the bike. Officers said the victim died as a result of his injuries.
The driver of an 18-wheeler was uninjured after his tractor trailer became stuck on railroad tracks before being struck by a train Thursday morning.
The tractor trailer was hauling a load of wooden pallets northbound on Webster Road in Auburn when the driver attempted to travel over the crossing along Martin Luther King Drive.
The trailer became stuck, according to reports, and around 11:40 a.m. a train traveling west along the tracks collided with the vehicle.
The train hit the trailer, sparing the cab of the vehicle any significant damage.
A bicyclist was killed Thursday morning in a collision with a cement truck.
The incident happened around 10 a.m. at the intersection of South Las Posas Road and Grand Avenue in San Marcos.
According to police, a man was riding a bike across the street against a red light and the driver of the cement truck hit him while making a right turn.
The driver was not cited.
A 4-year-old boy was struck by a car in San Francisco's Richmond District Thursday morning.
Emergency responders received reports of the crash at 43rd Avenue and Fulton Street at 11:43 a.m., according to the fire department.
The boy was transported to a hospital with serious injuries.
A Nampa man was injured when a commercial truck loaded with medical supplies crashed on Highway 58 in central Oregon about one mile west of the Willamette Pass Ski area.
Oregon State Police troopers from Oakridge and Springfield investigated the crash and cited the driver.
Police say around 1:15 a.m. Thursday, an International trucking pulling a semi-trailer driven by 64-year-old Teodor Margineanu was westbound on the highway when he failed to safely negotiate a curve.
A 63-year-old Saucier man was killed in an early morning accident in Harrison County. It happened around 6am in the southbound lanes of Highway 67 at Tradition Parkway.
The Harrison County Coroner identified the victim as Arthur Barnes, Jr. He said the victim's SUV was struck from behind by another vehicle. The SUV flipped several times, and Barnes was not wearing a seatbelt.
Hargrove said Barnes's wife said he had a lawn maintenance business and was on his way to work when the accident occurred.
A man whose apartment burned in a fire that began after a minivan crashed into his Garden Grove home Thursday morning helped his family escape from the residence before rescuing the driver from the burning vehicle.
Hobson Pike bridge was closed in both directions at Percy Priest Lake after a crash involving multiple vehicles.
Officials say an elderly driver had a medical issue and crossed the yellow line, hitting a car head on.
The woman then reportedly hit another car and the concrete wall of the bridge.
Two people were taken to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.
The bridge is expected to reopen shortly.