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The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a 24-year-old Arkansas man was killed when his truck was hit by an oncoming freight train.
The highway patrol says Cort Houston Daugherty of Huntsville died in the collision Monday in the northern Oklahoma town of Medford. According to the highway patrol, Daugherty was driving west on Oklahoma Highway 11 when he failed to yield to a Union Pacific train.
A spokeswoman for Union Pacific stated that the train had two locomotives and 71 empty rail cars. The company says the crossing had flashing lights and warning signs.
Five people were injured in a crash on the Illinois Avenue Bridge in west suburban Aurora Monday night.
The crash occurred about 8:19 p.m. on the bridge between state routes 31 and 25, a city spokesman said in a statement.
A Cadillac was headed east on the bridge just east of Route 31 when it was involved in a "minor accident," an offical said. The driver, later identified as Roy R. Lightfoot, 39, then fled the scene of the crash eastbound along the bridge, lost control, jumped the median and crashed into a Chevy Avevo in the westbound lanes.
One person is dead after a late-night accident in Greenville County.
According to the Highway Patrol, the wreck happened just after 11 p.m. Monday on West Georgia Road, about 5 miles south of Simpsonville.
Greenville County Coroner Parks Evans identified the victim as 29-year-old Marcus A. Johnson of Simpsonville.
Troopers say Johnson was driving a 1989 Chevrolet pickup and was driving east on West Georgia Road, when he veered into the westbound lane and struck a Toyota four-door.
A 20-year-old York County man was killed Monday night in a head-on crash on Wolf Trap Road, a Virginia State Police spokeswoman said.
Christopher Michael Crawford, of the 100 block of Winsome Haven Drive in the Seaford area of the county, died from injuries after being ejected from his 2003 Nissan Sentra during a head-on collision in the 1500 block of Wolf Trap Road, a State police spokeswoman said in an email.
State police were called to the area after 10 p.m. to assist the York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office with the two-vehicle crash, police said.
One lane is now getting by on the New Jersey Turnpike after a car-carrier truck accident that injured two people.
Officials say a box truck and a car-carrier truck collided on the Turnpike in Mount Laurel, New Jersey early Monday evening.
Officials say at least two people were hurt in the crash though they have not yet revealed how serious their injuries are
Only one southbound lane is getting by near mile-marker 36 on the Turnpike as officials continue to investigate.
A deputy pilot with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has been suspended and an investigation is underway after a speeding Camaro barreled down a runway and crashed into airport antennas
A Hillsborough County volunteer deputy was with the pilot in the volunteer's car when it lost control on a Tampa Executive Airport runway and drove into the antennas of the Instrument Landing System on Saturday, according to a HCSO report.
The volunteer, William Nelson, was driving the car, his own personal 2013 Chevrolet Camaro.
A Federal Protective Service vehicle flipped over in a two-car crash in northwest Baltimore.
It happened at the corner of Liberty Heights Avenue and North Rogers Avenue around 2:30 p.m. Monday.
According to the Baltimore City Police Department, a vehicle allegedly ran a red light, striking the FPS vehicle and causing it to flip over. The FPS officer was not injured.
The driver of the other vehicle was taken to the local hospital. There was no word on their condition or identity.
A 19-year-old man died after he was struck by at least two cars while crossing the street Monday morning in north suburban Lincolnwood, police said.
Rescue crews responding to a crash about 6:30 a.m. at the intersection of Kostner and West Touhy avenues found the man lying in the street, having been struck by at least two cars, Lincolnwood Police Deputy Chief John Walsh said.
The victim was apparently trying to catch a bus and was already down when the cars hit him, Walsh said.
Akron Police said a man crashed his car drunk and then hid in a drain pipe in Akron Saturday.
Bradley Zaryki, 45, of Cuyahoga Falls, was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, failure to stop after an accident and failure to control.
Police said they responded to a report of a one-car crash at East Cuyahoga Falls Avenue and Front Street in Akron after a northbound car swerved off the right side of Front Street and drive through a guardrail just south of the Cuyahoga River.
A 22-year-old Denver snowboarder died Monday morning after he crashed into a tree at Copper Mountain.
The Summit County Coroner said the crash happened around 9:30 on the Vein Glory run, a beginner trail.
The snowboarder, who was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, was taken to St. Anthony's Copper Mountain Clinic.
The victim's name was not immediately released. His death is under investigation.