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A suburban police officer is in critical condition following a car crash.
The accident happened near 160th Street and Cicero in Oak Forest.
The officer is 63-year-old James Morrissy. He was reportedly turning when he was hit by another car.
The driver of the other car was not injured.
UPDATE: Officer Morrissey has died of his injuries at a hospital, due to this accident. 03/18/14.
A deputy sheriff was killed in a three-vehicle crash in southwestern Arkansas.
Lafayette County Chief Deputy Sheriff Pete Richardson died Monday afternoon after the jeep he was driving collided with an oncoming vehicle on U.S. Highway 82 west of Lewisville, Ark.
Richardson was driving westbound with a passenger when he hit an oncoming vehicle. That vehicle then hit a tractor-trailer rig.
Drivers of those two vehicles as well as the passenger in the jeep were injured and transported to nearby hospitals.
Authorities continue to investigate the accident.
A driver who crashed into the center fountain wall at Gates Circle early this morning was driving with more than double the legal limit of alcohol in her system, according to Buffalo Police.
Catherine E. Bowen, 25, of Buffalo, reportedly failed “multiple” field sobriety tests before measuring 0.22 on an alcohol breath test and being charged with aggravated DWI at about 4:30 a.m. today. She also was charged with driving an unregistered vehicle and unlicensed operation of a vehicle, since her license was suspended.
Investigators are looking for two men who may have information about a deadly hit-and-run wreck in a northwest Harris County movie theater parking lot.
It happened at the Silverado Movie Theater in the 24000 block of Tomball Parkway. Investigators say two groups of people got into an argument about the end of a movie they watched.
After both groups left the theater, two males in one of the groups jumped into a white Ford F150. One of the males in the other group confronted them outside the passenger side door.
Honolulu police are responding to a critical accident in the Kalihi area.
The incident happened at about 9:15 a.m. Monday.
Police say a bus hit a bicyclist near McDonalds.
According to the Honolulu Emergency Medical Services, a man in his 50 to 60s was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Police have closed two lanes in the westbound direction of Nimitz Highway near Puuhale Road at this time.
A man was struck and killed by a freight train in north suburban Grayslake Monday morning, causing Metra to provide bus shuttles for its passengers on its North Central Service line.
The man, believed to be in his 20’s, was walking south on the tracks at Lake Street Crossing near Hillside Avenue when witnesses saw him step in to the path of a freight train headed north, Grayslake police said in a statement.
The incident appears to be a suicide, a spokesman for the Lake County Coroner’s office said. Officials had not yet identified him at 11:15 a.m., the spokesman said.
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Union Pacific freight train in Berkeley Monday morning, fire and railroad officials said.
The fire department received reports of a train hitting a pedestrian near the Berkeley and Albany border at 9:06 a.m., the Berkeley fire Acting Deputy Chief said.
The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim, a man, had been walking south on the tracks and a southbound Union Pacific train heading from Roseville to Oakland struck him, Union Pacific spokesman Aaron Hunt said.
A Maplesville man was killed in a single-vehicle wreck March 14 near Randolph.
Billy C. Hawkins, 69, died from injuries he sustained when the 2006 Chrysler 300 he was driving left the roadway and struck a tree, according to Alabama State Troopers.
The wreck occurred at about 6:10 p.m. on March 14, on Chilton County Road 36.
Seat belts were not in use at the time of the crash, according to information provided by Troopers.
Dozens of people are being treated for injuries and a driver is being held on reckless driving charges after a commercial passenger bus headed from New York to Doraville, Ga. overturned on Interstate 95 in Stafford County this morning.
The accident occurred around 4 a.m. Monday in the southbound lanes near the 137-mile marker between Stafford and Fredericksburg. All southbound lanes were closed and traffic was being detoured off the interstate. All lanes were re-opened by 9 a. m.
One of two people injured in a Sunday night car crash was in critical condition Monday morning at Baystate Medical Center, said Springfield police Officer Robert Kalin, the department's lead traffic-fatality investigator.
The Chevrolet sedan in which the pair was traveling sideswiped another vehicle before striking a home at 487 Bay St. at about 10:30 p.m., police said.
The Chevy's driver and passenger were both injured. However, the passenger, who was ejected from the car, is in "worse shape," said Kalin, a member of the Police Department's accident reconstruction team.