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A Ridgefield man was seriously injured Wednesday afternoon in a vehicle collision along Interstate 5 in Castle Rock. Angelina Puris, 63, of Centralia was driving north on the freeway in the left lane near Milepost 49 when she lost control of her Nissan Sentra and swerved to the left. She crossed the median and went into the southbound lanes, where she struck a Mazda MZ3 driven by Robert Huling, 72, of Ridgefield. Puris and Huling were transported to PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview. Puris was later transported to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland.
Ten people were taken to a Beaumont hospital after a city transit bus was involved in a collision with another vehicle and then struck a nearby home. Beaumont police say the bus was carrying 13 passengers when the collision occurred Wednesday morning. Eight passengers, the bus driver and the driver of a heavily damaged Chrysler 300 all were transported for medical treatment. Officer Neil Mireles told the Beaumont Enterprise that none of the injuries appeared serious. The bus appeared to strike a porch at the front of the home, reducing it to a rubble of bricks.
A Detroit police sergeant is in stable condition after being struck by a van in a hit-and-run accident on the city’s west side Wednesday afternoon. A police spokesman said the officer was conducting an investigation around 4:20 p.m. at Majestic and Mansfield Streets when he was hit by a woman driving a van. The driver fled in the vehicle after hitting the officer, but was arrested a few blocks away from where the accident happened, Woody said.
Vancouver police are investigating a single-vehicle that killed a Vancouver man early this morning. Officers were called to the 3700 block of Columbia Way at 12:10 a.m. and found a car had crashed into a tree on the south side of the roadway. Emergency crews extricated the driver, Anthony N. Almeida, 24, of Vancouver, and took him to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. He later died at the hospital. The agency’s traffic unit is investigating, but police said that speed was a contributing factor.