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A city bus driver damaged nearly two dozen vehicles in Brooklyn after suffering an apparent stroke behind the wheel, officials and transit sources said Friday.
The B48 bus was rolling along Nassau Ave. in Greenpoint at about 7:15 p.m. when the driver veered into a row of parked cars between Monitor and Sutton Sts., officials said.
Many of the vehicles were sideswiped, witnesses said. Others suffered front and rear-end damage as cars were slammed into the autos in front of them -- a chain reaction that sent witnesses running outside.
Authorities say a 7-year-old girl was in critical condition and others were also hurt and after a four-vehicle accident in which a logging truck overturned.
The accident happened Friday evening on Chambers Road in Bibb County.
The Bibb County Sheriff Office said the accident began when an Oldsmobile Achiva pulled out of an apartment complex in front of a logging truck. Sheriff's officials say the truck driver tried to avoid the car but lost control and struck it and another vehicle.
The log truck overturned and some of the logs struck a Nissan pickup.
A Maine man has died after his car slid on slippery roads into a truck carrying logs in the town of Hanover.
Police say 58-year-old Arland Burgess of Mexico was killed Friday on Route 2 southwest of Rumford.
Arland was the only person in the vehicle. Police say he apparently slid on a slushy section of road in front of the fully loaded log truck.
Police say the driver of the truck was not injured
There are still major questions and anger Saturday morning after a police chase that ended in a crash and killed off-duty Chicago Police officer David Harris, who is being remembered as a "true blue knight."
The chase involved Calumet Park Police.
Chicago Police officials arrived for a meeting with Calumet Park detectives, as both departments are now apparently involved in investigating the death of CPD Officer David Harris.
A Delaware man was arrested and charged with his 12th DUI after he allegedly fled the scene of a crash.
On Friday, at 7:25 p.m., Delaware State Troopers received a report of a driver walking away from a crash on Nine Foot Road in Dagsboro, Delaware.
The responding troopers found a 1998 Ford Mustang that had driven off the road. Investigators say the Troopers then found the driver, 55-year-old James Fisher, hiding behind the bushes nearby.
Fisher was not injured in the single-car crash, according to officials.
A motorcyclist died Friday evening in crash in Butte County.
Sgt. Mark Taylor of the California Highway Patrol said the collision occurred about 6:52 p.m. on Cherokee Road, about a quarter mile east of Highway 70, north of Oroville.
He said a man on an off-road motorcycle was traveling downhill when he came around a curve and lost control, laying down the motorcycle in the path of an four-wheel drive pickup headed uphill. The driver of the pickup was unable to stop in time to avoid running on top of the motorcyclist, who was lying in the roadway.
A 70-year-old man piloting a twin-engine Cessna was injured Friday evening when his plane crashed near Witham Field in Stuart, authorities said.
The crash happened around 5:30 p.m. in a grassy area along the 1000 block of Southeast Federal Highway near Southeast Tressler Avenue, said Officer Brian Bossio, city police spokesman.
Police identified the pilot late Friday as Marlin Moudy, a native of Wyoming.
Moudy was trying to land at Witham Field, which lies just southeast of the crash site. He avoided hitting several homes as his plane was crashing, authorities said.
A Duke University senior from Cary died Friday in a car crash on Interstate 10 in northern Florida.
The university says Rebecca DeNardis and six other students were traveling in a van with the director of Duke's Outdoor Adventure program when it was struck by another vehicle.
DeNardis was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Another student, identified as Joao Correia Marques, 21, was airlifted to a hospital in Pensacola, and a third student was treated and released.
Charges are pending against the driver who hit them.
A 27-year-old North Dakota man is dead after he was struck while riding his motorcycle in Volusia County.
The incident happened after 6:30 p.m. Friday at State Road 40 and Creek Haven Road.
The man was traveling eastbound on S.R. 40 on his 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Troopers said 70-year-old Robert Bendlin, of Ormond Beach, was traveling westbound on S.R. 40 in his 2006 Saturn SUV and 60-year-old Lynn Temple, of Palm Coast, was traveling eastbound on S.R. 40 in her 2009 Nissan, behind the motorcyclist.
A pedestrian was rushed to the hospital after they were struck by a car in Ridgefield Friday night.
The incident happened around 10:00 p.m. in the area of 570 Ridgebury Road.
Ridgefield Police said they are investigating the incident. The driver stayed at the scene and is being interviewed by investigators.
Ridgebury Road is closed from Benson Road to Chestnut Hill Road.
The victim was transported to Danbury Hospital in unknown condition.