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A man in his twenties was struck by a car Thursday at Lexington Avenue and East 104th Street in East Harlem. The accident happened just before 5 p.m. EMS transported the victim to New York Presbyterian Cornell Hospital in very critical condition. Police say the victim was a deliveryman for a Chinese restaurant on 3rd Avenue. He was on a bicycle heading south on Lexington Avenue when he was hit by a vehicle traveling in the same direction. The vehicle fled the scene.
A portion of Lakeway Drive was closed early Thursday morning, April 17, after a woman crashed her SUV into a power pole, according to the Bellingham Police Department. Police believe Tawny Lesha Julius, 22, was intoxicated when she crashed her 2002 Cadillac Escalade into a power pole near Lisa Lane just before 2 a.m., causing the pole to buckle and collapse onto her car, police spokesman Bob Vander Yacht said. Puget Sound Energy had to respond to the crash scene, where wires were dangling over the road, and traffic had to be rerouted.
Alejandro Apodaca, 34, was identified by the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office. His death has been ruled an accident. The Nissan Altima that Apodaca was driving was traveling south on Bowdish Road near 17th Avenue and left the street, colliding with the tree around 11:55 p.m. Thursday. When medics arrived, the lone occupant, Apodaca, was unresponsive and declared dead at the scene. Investigators were on-scene this morning attempting to determine the cause of the crash. Preliminary indications point to speed as a factor.
Two subcontractors working on a lane restriping project on eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in Fairfield Thursday evening were struck and injured by an alleged drunk driver, according to the California Highway Patrol. The contractors, employees of O.C. Jones & Sons, Inc., were closing the second lane of the ramp from eastbound Interstate Highway 80 to eastbound state Highway 12 using a trailer with an arrow board when the collision occurred around 9:15 p.m., CHP Officer Chris Parker said.
The bus carrying the 33-member team was involved in a traffic crash at the intersection of Apalachee Parkway and Connor Boulevard, less than six miles from Florida High, around 2:30 a.m. William R. Fowler II, 65, the driver of the bus, was killed in the accident after the bus veered off the road after an initial impact with another car, according to the Leon County Sheriff's Office.