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10-year-old boy struck and injured by a hit-and-run vehicle on Norwich Avenue in Norwich, Connecticut

Date: 
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Area: 
Hartford & New Haven, CT
Police have arrested a driver for a hit-and-run incident in Norwich Friday night. Officers responded to 159 Norwich Ave where a 10-year-old child was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene just before 7:00 p.m. According to police, the child suffered a leg injury and was taken to William W. Backus Hospital. His injuries are non-life threatening. The driver, Theresa Morgan of Norwich, was arrested a short time later after the accident. Morgan is charged with evading responsibility and released on a $2,500 bond. She is scheduled to appear in Norwich Superior Court on March 11th.

Kerri Chavez, 32, and her two children airlifted to hospital after a van collides with a tractor-trailer at Northlake and Hall boulevards in The Acreage, Florida

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Area: 
West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL

A mother, later identified as Kerri Chavez, 32, and her two young children and a semi driver were injured Thursday in a crash at Northlake and Hall boulevards in The Acreage.  The sheriff's office said a tractor-trailer was traveling west on Northlake Boulevard when a sport-utility vehicle, which was traveling north on Hall Boulevard, ran the stop sign at the intersection. Firefighters had to extricate the occupants from the vehicles using heavy extrication tools, said Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The mother and two children in the SUV were taken to St.

Wendy Ann Knight-Goboly, 57, Dick Allen Versendaal, 76, killed, 3-year-old seriously injured, after an SUV driving in the wrong direction collides head-on with a pickup in Bruce Township, Michigan

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Area: 
Detroit, MI
A man from Byron Center was killed in a three-vehicle crash that happened Thursday afternoon on the east side of the state. Dick Allen Versendaal, 76, was killed when his SUV hit a pickup truck around 3:30 p.m. on Van Dyke Avenue in Bruce Township, which is about 40 miles north of Detroit. Witnesses said Versendaal was driving the wrong way on the street when hit the pickup head-on, according to Michigan State Police.

Ebony Wilkerson drives minivan with her three children inside into the ocean in Daytona Beach, Florida

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Area: 
Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, FL
A mother behind the wheel of a minivan that was driven with her three children into the surf off Daytona Beach, Fla., is undergoing a mental evaluation. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office also said Wednesday that the children were turned over to the care of the Florida Department of Children and Families. Bystanders and officers helped pull the woman, later identified as Ebony Wilkerson, and her children - ages 3, 9 and 10 - from their minivan after it became nearly submerged in the Atlantic surf Tuesday afternoon.

9-year-old girl critically injured, airlifted to hospital, 6-year-old boy slightly injured, after they are run over by a school bus near Taylorsville in Bartholomew County, Indiana

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Area: 
Indianapolis, IN
Emergency personnel were on the scene of a crash Thursday morning where two children were struck by a school bus, police dispatchers said. Police say a Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation school bus was involved in the crash in the 2500 block of West Chaucer Drive around 7:37 a.m. Police said two Taylorsville Elementary students had been hit. The crash happened near Taylorsville, just south of where Interstate 65 and US 31 cross .

Chris Caudill, 33, Mark Caudill, 31, Ellie Caudill, 8, Emma Caudill, 5, Kaitleen Caudill, 9, injured, taken to hospitals, after their pickup overturns into ditch in Scott County, Indiana

Date: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Area: 
Louisville, KY

A trooper discovered that a 2001 four-door Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was traveling east near 568 East Crothersville Road when it suddenly crossed into the eastbound lane, hitting a tree on the north side of the road. It then flipped into the ditch. A passerby discovered the crash when he got out of his vehicle to move the tree that had been struck by the pickup truck. Sgt. Jerry Goodin with ISP said the passerby heard children yelling for help, so he walked to the edge of the roadway and saw the overturned truck.

Several students from Crawford Long Middle School suffer minor injuries after their school bus collides with a car in Atlanta, Georgia

Date: 
Monday, February 24, 2014
Area: 
Atlanta, GA
Authorities say several students on a school bus were hurt in a crash in Atlanta, but their injuries appeared to be minor. An Atlanta police spokeswoman says that several of the students complained of back and neck injuries and were being taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding. The wreck happened around 8:40 a.m.

5 Houston high school students, and one adult and two children, injured, taken to hospital with minor injuries, after a school bus collides with a SUV at an intersection in Houston, Texas

Date: 
Monday, February 24, 2014
Area: 
Houston, TX
Several HISD high school students were injured in a bus crash Tuesday morning, the district said. The accident happened just before 8 a.m. in the 7800 block of Lawn Street in southeast Houston. Investigators are trying to figure out who is at fault in this crash, which sent eight people to the hospital. The bus was transporting kids to Reagan High School when HISD police say the bus collided with a Chevy Suburban at the intersection of Lawn at Fair. Officers say that collision caused several students to fall out of their seats. Five students were transported to the hospital.

Father accidentally strikes and kills son at a school parking lot after dropping him off for school in Nichols Hills, Oklahoma

Date: 
Monday, February 24, 2014
Area: 
Oklahoma City, OK

A father who was dropping off his child at a school in Nichols Hills accidentally struck and killed him Tuesday morning, according to Oklahoma City police. The incident occurred on the grounds of the Christ the King Catholic School near North Pennsylvania Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, where the boy was a student, officers said.

9 students from Bridgewater Middle School, and bus driver Linda Rickerson, 55, suffer minor injuries when their school bus collides with a car at an intersection in Orlando, Florida

Date: 
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Area: 
Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, FL
Authorities say nine students were hospitalized with minor injuries following a school bus crash in central Florida. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that the bus was heading to Bridgewater Middle School Monday morning when the driver, 55-year-old Linda Rickerson, tried to make a left turn at an Orlando intersection. FHP reports that a PT Cruiser crashed into the side of the bus. The PT Cruiser's driver was also injured. Troopers cited the bus driver with violating the right of way. Uninjured students were released from the scene, and another bus took them to school.