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Date: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Phoenix police said a 64-year-old man was struck by and killed by a car in west Phoenix early Thursday evening.

Abelardo Rivera-Contreras was crossing 83rd Avenue north of Indian School Road outside an unmarked crosswalk about 6:15 p.m. when he was struck by a 2006 Ford Fusion driven by a 27-year-old man, who stayed at the scene until police arrived, said Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson.

Rivera-Contreras was taken to a Phoenix hospital, where he died, Thompson said.

Thompson said impairment might have been a factor and that the investigation was continuing.

Date: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

A man died after being caught between a car and a tree, according to Spartanburg County coroner Rusty Clevenger.

Clevenger said James Bryan Green, 32, of Inman, was found next to his 2011 Chevy Corvette on Lake Front Road just after 11 p.m. Thursday.

Clevenger said it appears the car’s manual transmission was in neutral, began to roll and Green tried to stop the car with his body.

He said the vehicle ran into a tree.

Clevenger said Green was able to free himself between the car and tree, and then died.

Date: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

A man crossing a Phoenix street died after he was struck by a car Thursday morning.

A Phoenix police spokesman said 20-year-old Victor Lee Squire was hit by a yellow Mustang about 8 a.m. as he crossed a street in the area of Rose Lane and 27th Avenue.

The 39-year-old woman driving the 1998 Mustang stopped and cooperated in the investigation, the spokesman said.

Police said Squire was crossing 27th Avenue outside of an unmarked crosswalk, the spokesman said.

Police said impairment was not a factor and the driver was not expected to face charges.

Date: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Flags are at half-staff Thursday morning after off-duty Cleveland firefighter Theodore J. Wright, Jr.'s pickup truck crashed into a telephone pole and died.

Cleveland Fire spokesman Lt. Larry Gray says the 32-year veteran was married with children. The crash is being investigated by CPD’s Accident Investigation Unit.

EMS arrived at the scene on E.71st and Claasen Avenue around 3:10 a.m. on Thursday.They said Wright was partially ejected and still trapped inside of the vehicle. He was the only person in the vehicle and no one else was injured.

Date: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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.
Date: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Three detention officers at a privately run unit in West Texas have died in an SUV rollover wreck after they got off work. 

 

Date: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Area: 
Tulsa, OK

A Missouri man was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision with a semi in southeast Kansas.

Ryan Dustin Summers, 29, of Pleasant Hill, Mo., died after his pickup slammed into a semi shortly after 9 a.m. about 8 miles south of Cherryvale on U.S. 169, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol accident report.

Summers was driving his 2006 GMC Sierra south when it veered over the center line, side-swiped a dump truck, continued on and struck the semi head-on, the report said.

Summers died at the scene. No one was injured in the other vehicles, the report said.

Date: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Authorities say a 68-year-old woman died after she was hit and run over by a van in the driveway of her North Port home.

According to police, Judith Ann Jellema has parked her Nissan Quest in the driveway about 6 p.m. Wednesday. A short time later she asked her 13-year-old granddaughter to move the van because it wasn't parked straight.

The Sarasota News Herald reports Jellema was standing next to the opened driver's door when the teen backed up the vehicle. Jellema was knocked to the ground.

Date: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

A teenager injured in a wreck Wednesday night is in critical condition at Huntsville Hospital, officials said this morning.

Hospital officials said David “Bubba” Smith, 17, Tuscumbia, is in the facility’s surgical intensive care unit.

State troopers said Smith was injured in a one-car accident that happened on Woodmont Drive, at the base of Colbert Heights Mountain.

Smith was flown from the scene by Air- Evac.

The accident was reported at 8:15 p.m.

Troopers said Smith was driving a 2003 Pontiac that left the roadway and crashed.

Date: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

A one-car accident in Red Hook Wednesday night has taken the life of a Kingston woman, according to the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office.

Captain John Watterson said the accident took place on Route 9G near Kidd Lane in the Town of Red Hook at approximately 11:15 p.m. The driver and sole occupant, who was identified as Amanda Timbrouck, 30, of Kingston, was pronounced dead at the scene..