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Saturday, February 22, 2014Area:
Columbus, OHThree people killed last night in a crash in Union County included a 2-year-old and a 17-year-old Dublin high school student.
The Union County sheriff’s office identified the dead as Joshua Fraley, 30, and Easton Fraley, 2, both of Mechanicsburg, and Olivia Aicher, 17, of Dublin. Three others who were not identified, including a child, were injured in the crash and taken to separate hospitals.
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Friday, February 21, 2014Area:
Memphis, TNA 36-year-old woman died early Saturday following a head-on collision between two vehicles at Millbranch and Oakwood in Whitehaven.
Memphis police said the wreck occurred about 2:45 a.m. Saturday in the continuing turn lane of Millbranch and involved a vehicle headed north and another headed south.
Jermeika Mattox, driving south, was transported to Regional Medical Center at Memphis in extremely critical condition. She later was pronounced dead.
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Sunday, February 16, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYA New Albany woman, later identified as Karen Davis, 52, died Monday afternoon in a head-on wreck on Old Ind. 403 in Charlestown. The woman was southbound on the Clark County road about 2:30 p.m. when her car and another car collided near the Danbury Oaks subdivision, said a detective with the Charlestown Police Department. A 28-year-old Charlestown man who was driving the other car, a Buick, had his four-year-old son with him at the time of the collision.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014Area:
Atlanta, GASmyrna police say an 8-month-old baby was killed and two other children were injured when a man accused of drunk driving crashed into a taxi head on. Authorities say Darren Curry has been charged with driving under the influence and vehicular homicide in the Sunday morning crash on Windy Hill Road. Police have said the baby and two children, ages 3 and 7, were riding with Curry. The 3-year-old suffered critical head injuries and the 7-year-old was also injured. Curry's relationship with the children is unclear.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCA man faces misdemeanor charges after a passenger died in a head-on crash on a snowy Chatham County road Wednesday.
Miguel Arquimides Caseres, 45, of Siler City, was charged following a crash around 1:15 p.m. on Silk Road near Romine Pike Road.
Caseres was driving a 1996 Ford car on a snow-covered road when it crossed the center line and crashed into a 1999 Chevrolet, troopers said. The passenger in the Chevrolet died.
The passenger's name hasn't been released pending notification of next-of-kin.
Caseres also was charged with exceeding a safe speed.
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Monday, February 10, 2014Area:
Portland, ORSalem Police identified the two people killed in a car crash Tuesday evening as a McMinnville mother and her 9-year-old daughter.
Kelly Moore, 26, and one of her twin daughters, Jasmine, were declared dead at the scene of the crash, which occurred near the intersection of Turner Road Southeast and Airway Drive Southeast. They were among four passengers in a 1994 Ford Escort driven by Hannah Reitz, 28, of McMinnville.
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Saturday, February 8, 20143 people suffered non-life threatening injuries after a crash in Texas Township Sunday morning.
Around 11 a.m. Sunday, authorities were called to a crash on Q Ave near South 10th Street.
Three people were hurt in the head-on crash, but all suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Authorities are looking into the cause of the crash.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 275 in Hillsborough County claimed five lives early Sunday morning.
The incident occurred just after 2 a.m. and closed the northbound lanes of the roadway for over five hours.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report a 2001 Ford Expedition triggered the tragedy by driving south in the northbound lanes. The Expedition struck a 2010 Hyundai head-on just north of the Busch Blvd. exit in the center travel lane.
The SUV caught fire and was quickly engulfed in flames. The driver, later identified as Daniel Lee Morris 28, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Friday, February 7, 2014A woman has died following a head-on crash near Simpsonville.
According to state troopers, the wreck happened around 11:25 a.m. Saturday- on E. Georgia Road just outside Simpsonville city limits.
Investigators said Joyce Mahaffey's, 70, vehicle crossed the center line, causing it to hit another vehicle head-on.
State troopers said she was not wearing a seat belt and died at the hospital a short time after the crash.
The driver was the only person in the second vehicle and was not injured.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014A pedestrian was struck and killed in Pinole on Thursday evening by a suspected drunken driver who also collided head-on with another car, police said Friday.
A Contra Costa County coroner’s deputy identified the pedestrian as 25-year-old Diego Garcia of Pinole.
Police said Garcia was struck and killed while walking on a sidewalk on Appian Way near Marlesta Road at about 6:10 p.m. Thursday.
A 32-year-old El Sobrante woman was driving north on Appian Way when she lost control of her car and crashed head-on into a car in a southbound lane, according to police.