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Saturday, February 8, 2014Area:
Johnstown-Altoona, PAA tour bus driving too fast on a snow-covered road crashed in southwestern Pennsylvania Sunday, sending more than 20 passengers to the hospital with minor injuries, officials said.
State police said that bus driver Terrence Harold Shultz, 65, lost control and crashed into an embankment around 2:20 p.m. on Route 220 in Cumberland Valley Township, about five miles from the Maryland border. Twenty-six of the 33 passengers on the bus were taken to two hospitals in the area and all but three with minor injuries were treated and released, hospital officials said.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAA 69-year-old man was killed in snowy crash along SR-9 in Lake Stevens Saturday evening, February 8, 2014. The collision happened just before 10 p.m. near where the highway intersects with SR-92. Arthur Whetstone was driving south on SR-9 when he lost control and spun out sideways into the northbound lanes. Moments later, he was struck by a pickup truck and was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the pickup truck was treated at the scene for minor injuries.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014Area:
San Diego, CAA Border Patrol agent was injured in a crash early Friday morning.
The incident happened around 1:30 a.m. on Buckman Springs Road, just south of Lake Morena Drive in Campo.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the Border Patrol agent's vehicle slid off the road, which was wet from rainfall, and struck a large tree.
The agent, a 26-year-old, ended up with a fractured right hand and several facial lacerations but was otherwise fine. He was transported to a hospital for treatment.
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Monday, February 3, 2014Area:
Portland, ORA 17-year-old boy was suffering life-threatening injuries after a car crashed into a tree on icy roads in Redland Tuesday night, police said.
Three people were in the car when it crashed at 15800 Redland Road just before 5:30 p.m., according to a spokesman for the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.
The teen was taken to Oregon Health & Sciences University in a helicopter. Another person was taken by ambulance to an area hospital with minor injuries.
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Monday, February 3, 2014Area:
Detroit, MIOfficials were called to York Township just west of Milan for a crash involving a train and a vehicle around 2 p.m., police confirmed.
A man driving a truck on East Arkona Road east of Platt tried stopping at the crossing gates for the freight train coming by but couldn't because of icy road conditions, said a spokesman for the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office
The truck collided with the side of the moving train. The man driving the truck suffered minor injuries, police said.
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Saturday, February 1, 2014Area:
Evansville, INThe Ohio County Sheriff's Office has released the identity of the man killed after his car collided with a snow plow in Ohio County.
According to the Sheriff's Office, just before six Sunday night dispatchers received a call about a two vehicle accident involving a KYTC snow plow and a black Honda at the intersection of US 231 south and Lee Drive in Cromwell.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014Area:
Hartford & New Haven, CTA van rollover closed Bethany Mountain Road in Cheshire Thursday morning.
The road, also known as Route 42, was closed from Inverness Road in Cheshire to Candy Lane in Prospect, according to police.
The van's driver had to be extricated, but suffered non-life threatening injuries, police said.
It's the second accident police responded to in the same area on Thursday morning. Water runoff from a hill froze on the road, creating a slick condition, according to police. State Department of Transportation crews were called to treat the road.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCA passenger died Tuesday afternoon when a woman lost control of her pickup truck on a road covered with snow and ice. The truck went down an embankment and hit a tree. Troopers said 68-year-old Jean Conley of Elkin died. Troopers said it appeared the victim was not wearing a seat belt.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014Area:
Atlanta, GAA Locust Grove High School student was killed as a result of an accident that happened due to inclement weather conditions. Authorities say the incident occurred on Coan Road, just east of Willow Creek Drive in McDonough when a pickup truck, driven by 17-year-old Nash Beever, struck a tree. The white Ford Ranger, which was also occupied by four other people, left the roadway around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCA Hickory woman who's nine months pregnant escaped injury after the car she was driving slid off an icy road as she headed to a doctor's appointment.
WSOC-TV in Charlotte reports that neither Stephanie Youman nor her unborn child was hurt.
Emergency personnel said Youman was driving on Airport Rhodhiss Road, which was coated with a layer of snow and ice.
Youman said she wouldn't have ventured out Wednesday morning, but said she's a first-time expectant mother and is one day overdue, so she was worried about her unborn son.