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8-year-old girl critically injured after she is struck by a South Jordan School bus while crossing 40th Street in South Jordan, Utah

Date: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Area: 
Salt Lake City, UT
Parents in a South Jordan neighborhood are heart broken and outraged after an 8-year-old girl was struck and critically injured by a passing school bus. The 8-year-old girl was hurt by the Jordan district bus while she was crossing the street after getting off her bus. The girl did not see the second bus approaching behind her, and stepped into the bus's path unaware. Parents say they have asked that this bus stop be moved off 40th west and into the neighborhood, but because the neighborhoods have private HOA's the district refused.

28 students suffer minor injuries after their school bus is involved in a minor crash on State Route 130 in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Date: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Area: 
Trenton-NJ
Police say 28 New Jersey students have been taken to a hospital as a precaution after their school bus was involved in a minor crash. North Brunswick Police Lt. Gina Braconi says the accident happened on Route 130 around 8 a.m. Wednesday. She says that all 28 students on board were taken for checkups after some complained of pain. None have injuries that are considered life-threatening. Braconi says the students were from North Brunswick but she's not sure which school.

77-year-old woman and two other people injured after their car is struck head-on by another vehicle at an intersection on Highway 12 in Santa Rosa, California

Date: 
Friday, April 25, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
Four people were injured, one seriously, Saturday morning in a head-on collision on state Highway 12 caused by an allegedly drunk driver, Santa Rosa police said Saturday. The collision occurred just after 10:30 a.m. on Highway 12 at Melita Road, when an eastbound Ford Mustang crossed the center divider and struck a westbound Nissan Sentra head-on, according to police. The Sentra overturned and landed in the westbound lane with people trapped inside.

Brenda Inez Acosta, 13, Brittany Marie Long, 8, Furley James Brown, 78, killed, 3 teenagers suffer minor injures after their car crashes trying to pass in a no-passing zone on U.S. 701 near Whiteville, North Carolina

Date: 
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Area: 
Wilmington, NC
The N.C. Highway Patrol says three people are dead after a multi-car accident south of Whiteville. Troopers say a driver couldn't complete a pass in a no-passing zone on U.S. 701 Friday night and tried to get back into the lane. That car hit the fender of the vehicle in front of it, causing 78-year-old Furley James Brown to lose control of his car and crash into a third car head-on.

3 teenagers critically injured, 3 other teens injured, after their disabled vehicle is struck by a van on U.S. 60 at Gilbert Road in Mesa, Arizona

Date: 
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Area: 
Phoenix, AZ
Six teenagers were in critical condition following a three-car chain reaction crash on U.S. 60 at Gilbert Road Thursday afternoon, Mesa fire officials said. All the teens were in a vehicle that was stalled in the emergency lane when it was hit from behind by a van, fire authorities said. One other vehicle was involved in the smash-ups. The half dozen injured patients are between the ages of 17 and 19, according to first responders. The full extent of their injuries was not known.

2 children and their bus driver critically injured, at least nine other children injured, after their Orange County Unified School bus crashes on Nohl Ranch Road next to the Anaheim golf course in Anaheim, California

Date: 
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Area: 
Orange County, CA

At least 12 people were hurt Thursday when a school bus with children on board crashed and became lodged between two trees at an Anaheim golf course, according to the California Highway Patrol. The Orange Unified School District bus crashed near the Anaheim Hills Golf Course just before 3:40 p.m., officials said. Aerial video showed the bus appearing to be bent down the middle where it was leaning against a tree. The bus driver had to be pulled from the wreckage. Three people, including the bus driver, were in critical condition.

17-year-old female student pedestrian seriously injured after she is struck by a car while trying to board her school bus at the intersection of 58th Avenue and 42nd Street near Vero Beach, Florida

Date: 
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Area: 
West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL

A motorist who struck a 17-year-old student on 58th Avenue at 6:30 a.m. Thursday has been cited for failing to stop for a school bus, according to a Indian River County Sheriff’s spokesman. The bus was stopped and its lights were on and a sign was out when the student was attempting to cross 58th Avenue, at 42nd Street, to get to the bus, police said. Emergency officials said the female student was talking before she was taken to the trauma center at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute, Fort Pierce, emergency officials said.

Janette Johnson, 55, and Messiah Johnson, 5, both seriously injured after they are struck by a car while attempting to cross Kings Highway in Shreveport, Louisiana

Date: 
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Area: 
Shreveport, LA
Shreveport police are investigating a crash that sent two pedestrians to the hospital Wednesday afternoon. Just before 2 p.m. Wednesday, Shreveport police were called to the 1600 block of Kings Highway after a reported vehicle crash involving two pedestrians. Janette Johnson, 55, had been struck and pinned beneath a vehicle traveling eastbound along the 1600 block of Kings Highway. Johnson, who was not responsive following the crash, was rushed to University Health Medical Center where she remains in critical condition.

Morgan Wallace Calaway, 3, killed after he is struck by a hit-and-run driver while walking on Reed Bell Street in Palatka, Florida

Date: 
Monday, April 21, 2014
Area: 
Jacksonville, FL

Authorities are questioning several people to determine who was driving a car that struck and killed a 3-year-old San Mateo boy. Morgan Wallace Calaway died Tuesday night after he somehow escaped from a family member's home and wandered into the street. Florida Highway Patrol officials said he was struck by a white Honda. Authorities found the car a few miles away after the accident.

Gracie Abbott, 13, a Maddox Middle School eighth-grader, killed, after losing control of her ATV, and overturning on Old Glory Drive in Jasper.

Date: 
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Area: 
Birmingham, AL
A Maddox Middle School eighth-grader died late Sunday night from injuries she sustained in an ATV crash earlier in the day. Gracie Abbott, 13, was airlifted to Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham after the accident, which happened near Old Glory Drive, just off Fall City Road. Abbott was driving the ATV but lost control and the vehicle flipped, throwing Abbott and two of her cousins from the vehicle, officials said. Abbott was airlifted to the hospital with a severe head injury, but efforts to revive her failed.