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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

An investigation was underway Thursday in the death of a 22-year-old woman who crashed a Jeep along Interstate 8 in Alpine, injuring a man in the front seat and a 1-year-old boy in a safety seat in the rear.

The woman braked to avoid slowing traffic, swerved, and the Jeep went down an embankment along eastbound lanes, west of Tavern Road, about 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Pearlstein.

Date: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Tennessee Highway Patrol has identified the Kentucky men killed Thursday morning when their car slammed into a tractor trailer at about 80 mph in Robertson County.

The wreck occurred shortly before 2 a.m. on Lake Springs Road at the Highway 31 intersection on the Robertson-Sumner county border.

A tractor trailer was attempting to turn left from Lake Springs Road onto Highway 31 when it was rear-ended by the car, according to the THP report.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Authorities are investigating what caused a train to collide with an 18-wheeler crash in northeast Houston.

It happened around 8:30 a.m. Thursday on Liberty Road at E. Houston Street.

A hazmat team with the Houston Fire Department responded to the scene to assist with cleaning up debris from the accident.

Officials say a Kansas City Southern train was involved in the crash.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

A truck driver is in critical condition after a crash on Interstate 84 West in Tolland this morning.

The Thurston Foods tractor-trailer rolled over a jersey barrier on Interstate 84 East between exits 69 and 70, officials said.

The driver was trapped and had to be extricated.

Public safety officials said they called for Lifestar, but the medical transport helicopter could not fly because of weather.

The driver is in critical, but stable condition at Saint Francis Hospital according to local officials.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Police say a driver ran a red light and was T-boned by another car overnight in downtown Houston

It happened on Milam and St. Joseph's Parkway. Police say the driver that ran the light lost control and went through a brick column and fence before coming to rest outside Fire Station No. 8.

There were four people in that car. They suffered minor injuries.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

A 21-year-old Wyndmere woman was injured in a collision with a train near here Thursday morning.

The woman was driving a white minivan on 63rd Street in Richland County here about 5 miles south of Walcott when she struck a Red River Valley & Western train about 10 a.m.

Authorities said the woman was taken to Essentia Health in Fargo with injuries that weren’t considered to be life-threatening.

There were no crossing arms at the intersection.

Date: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Area: 
Trenton-NJ

An 8,500-gallon tanker truck hauling gasoline crashed and burst into flames near train tracks on a New Jersey highway Thursday morning, briefly snarling several rail lines and closing streets, officials say.

The truck caught fire on McCarter Highway at Astor Street in Newark about 1:30 a.m., police say. The blaze was brought under control by about 3:30 a.m. and no one was seriously injured.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Police say a pickup struck and killed a man who was shoveling snow at the end of the driveway at his northeastern Indiana home.

Whitley County authorities say 69-year-old Marvin Kinney was hit Wednesday while shoveling outside his home along Indiana 205 in a rural area a few miles from Columbia City. He was taken to a Fort Wayne hospital, where he was pronounced dead from head and internal injuries.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Accident reconstruction crews responded to a serious motorcycle wreck that critically injured a man late Wednesday night in south St. Louis.

The accident happened on southbound Interstate 55 near Gasconade Street . around 10 p.m. According to police, a 46-year-old man lost control of his motorcycle, hit the back of a tractor trailer, flew off of his bike and slid down the highway.

All southbound lanes of I-55 at Gasconade Street were shutdown while crews worked to clear the scene. Officials reopened the lanes around 2 a.m.

Date: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Area: 
Tucson, AZ
A 90-year-old woman who was a passenger in a car that was struck by a truck in midtown last month died Tuesday. Dorothy Hill died of complications from her injuries in the March 13 crash that occurred shortly before 11:30 a.m. at East Speedway and North Catalina Avenue, just east of North Columbus Boulevard, said Sgt. Chris Widmer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. A 60-year-old man was driving the 1983 Chevrolet truck north on Catalina, and failed to yield from the stop sign at Speedway, causing the crash with a 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser that was traveling west on Speedway, Widmer said.