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Monday, March 24, 2014
A pedestrian is dead after a two car accident on Highway 51 near Crystal Springs. "I was waiting for the flag man to release me so I can pass and a truck came over a hill and hit me from the back and pushed me in the ditch. My car ran over the flag man," says the driver of the Chevrolet Caprice that hit 39-year-old Garvin Barnes. The driver doesn't want his name released. Barnes was directing traffic while workers were paving Highway 51. He works for Dickerson and Barnes Asphalt Paving Company.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
An 18-year-old Oregon woman will be ticketed for her role in a head-on crash Tuesday morning in the Town of Dunn that injured her and another driver. The crash occurred just before 8 a.m. at Highway B at White Oak Trail when Danielle Waldvogel, 18, crossed the centerline and crashed head-on into a vehicle traveling the opposite direction, according to a Dane County sheriff's office news release. The driver of the other car, Ruth Drage, 54, of Middleton had to be extricated from her vehicle by Oregon firefighters, officials said.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
A 64-year-old West Hartford teacher has died after her car and a school bus crashed at Boulevard and Mountain Road in West Hartford this morning, according to West Hartford police. Police had to extricate the driver, Patricia Rossoff, 64, of West Hartford, who was pronounced dead at UConn Medical Center. She was a teacher at Kingswood Oxford School, police said. School officials said she was with Kingswood Oxford for 39 years. She was a creative arts and modern languages teacher, as well as academic dean of humanities.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Police were investigating a fatal DUI crash between a vehicle and a motorcyclist in Fremont Tuesday morning. Officers responded to the collision on Fremont Boulevard and Decoto Road, police said. The motorcyclist, later identified as Andrew Silva, 23, a U.S. Marine, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. Alcohol appears to be factor in the crash and the driver of the vehicle, identified by police as 23-year-old Alexander Yohn of Emeryville, was arrested.
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Two people, including a wrong-way driver, were killed in a head-on collision in Jefferson County on Tuesday. According to police, a driver exited Highway M and got on southbound Highway 21 going north. The driver, identified as 82-year-old Mary Burke, drove the wrong way for several miles before hitting another vehicle at Shady Valley near Imperial around 12:15 p.m. Burke, of St. Louis, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver in the other vehicle, identified as James Sybert, 25, was taken to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. 

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

A Tampa woman's iPhone video captures a man tailgating her and crashing his truck after he cuts her off.

The video dubbed "instant karma" has garnered more than 800,000 hits and is making its way around the web.

It happened Monday afternoon on U.S. 41 just north of Gibsonton Drive.

The woman spoke to news media but asked that her name not be broadcast or made public. Instead, she is going by her YouTube username, Florida Driver.

"That's what you get, all on video buddy," you can hear her say while laughing in the video.

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Police have identified the driver who was killed after his vehicle crashed and burst into flames in Northeast Philadelphia late Monday night.

The victim has been identified as 39-year-old Eric Ferrell of 1500 block of Seller Street.

The accident happened around 11:15 p.m. on the 4600 block of Roosevelt Boulevard near Tower Drive.

According to police, Ferrell was travelling inside a 2011 Mazda at high rate of speed, lost control, hit the curb, and then struck a tree in the median
The car flipped onto its side and then burst into flames.

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office has now identified all four people killed when the SUV they were riding in rolled over near downtown early Monday morning.

Stella Sanchez, 50, was named as a victim Wednesday after authorities notified her next of kin.

The medical examiner's office has previously said that Juanita Villarreal, 46, Jesus Ramos Niño, 44, and Jose Luis Hernandez, 36, also died in the 2:15 a.m. crash on the ramp connecting Interstate 35 to eastbound Interstate 10.

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Investigators have found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed Monday evening and the bodies of the two people who were on board.

Crews had been searching for the plane since the crash, focusing on a marshy area east of Brunswick, where the plane dropped off radar and was seen falling from the sky.

An air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said crews recovered the plane about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday and raised the plane above the water and onto a barge.

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

A White Bluff woman continues to recover after her SUV was struck by a train Monday afternoon in west Nashville.

The collision was reported about 5 p.m. near Highway 70 and McCrory Lane, and surveillance video from a nearby gas station showed the woman's vehicle crossing the tracks just as the fast-moving train approached.

Jeffrey Grant was getting gas across the street at Eddie's Market at the time.

"Before I knew it, I heard this big explosion," Grant said.