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A Michigan man died in a Friday afternoon collision with a semitrailer cab that ran a stoplight, police said. The collision, which involved three vehicles, was at the intersection of Baseline and Arsenal roads, Elwood Police Chief Fred Hayes said. Donald W. Lundberg, 51, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which happened at 12:03 p.m. “Speed definitely appears to be a factor,” Hayes said.

Two people were killed Friday in a head-on crash involving a wrong-way driver on state Route 67 in Lakeside, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash was reported around 3:15 p.m. near Winter Gardens Boulevard, according to the CHP. A 29-year-old Jamul woman driving a silver Ford F150 pickup truck entered the northbound lanes of the highway, heading southbound at approximately 60 mph, the CHP reported. The Ford collided head-on with a southbound 2014 Chevrolet 3500 utility vehicle driven by a 49-year-old man from Alpine, according to the CHP.

A 65-year-old man has been charged after in connection with the fatal hit-and-run of a bicyclist.

Gabriel Herrera was charged with one felony count of leave the scene of accident resulting in injury or death, a misdemeanor count of failure to give information or aid in injury and a traffic citation for failure to reduce speed, police said.

A 59-year-old victim was riding her bike in the 2900 block of South Poplar Avenue at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday when a vehicle struck her, police said. The driver did not stop and kept going east.

Two days after state police say Tyler Dufrene, 17, was critically injured in a crash in Lafourche Parish just north of the Valentine Bridge on LA 1, the teen remains on life support.

State police say Duffer was driving south when a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction crossed the center-line, striking Dufrene's jeep head-on.