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Friday, February 21, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA 69-year-old Manatee County woman died Friday afternoon from injuries sustained in a parking lot accident.
Susan Roberts Murphy was pronounced dead at the scene just after 4:30 p.m.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report Murphy has just finished shopping at BJ’s Wholesale Club and was loading items into the front passenger side of her 2001 Chrysler Town and Country van when the vehicle started moving in reverse for unknown reasons.
Murphy fell under the vehicle and was struck on the head and body by the front right tire.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILAn Amtrak train struck a vehicle near Harlem Avenue on the border of west suburban Riverside and Berwyn on Thursday, delaying Metra BNSF line trains.
The Amtrak train was running on the BNSF tracks when it hit a vehicle near Harlem Avenue about 2:30 p.m., Metra spokesman Michael Gillis said.
Metra’s BNSF line trains between Chicago and Aurora use those same tracks, and were temporarily stopped, the rail agency said. The crash happened near the Harlem Metra station in Riverside.
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Monday, February 17, 2014A man riding a moped was killed in a collision with another vehicle Tuesday night.
Daniel Bruce Frost, 66, of Burlington, was killed around 9:30 p.m. at the intersection of South Church Street and Gurney Street.
Frost was driving a 2009 Honda moped west on South Church Street when he collided with a 2008 Chevrolet going north on Gurney Street, Burlington police said.
Frost was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the car wasn't injured.
The investigation continues. Two witnesses told police Frost ran a red light.
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Friday, February 14, 2014Orren G. Clark is 97, and says he’s often mistaken for being in his 60s. His driving record is clean.
He said he can explain why he backed his car into the side of a McDonald’s restaurant on 28th Street SE on Saturday.
“I put it in reverse, and I stepped on there (the gas pedal), and I didn’t pull my foot off because of being fatigued,” he told 24 Hour News 8 on Tuesday.
Clark said the crash, which left a gaping hole in the restaurant, had nothing to do with his age.
In fact, he said, once his car is fixed, he plans to return to the road. He said he isn’t like some others his age.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014Area:
Biloxi-Gulfport, MSAuthorities say an 83-year-old man died after the four-wheeler he was driving collided with a vehicle.
A spokeswoman for the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, stated that the accident happened about 4:45 p.m. Thursday at Chatsworth and Forts Lake roads.
Coroner Vicki Broadus identified the victim as Robert Ladnier Jr. of the Forts Lake community.
She said Ladnier died of a closed-head injury from blunt-force trauma.
The accident remains under investigation.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014Area:
Denver, COThe pilot of an experimental plane died when he crashed in Boulder County.
A witness called 911 Wednesday afternoon and said a plane had crashed in a field and creek off 109th Street between Lookout and Jasper roads," Boulder County officials said in a news release.
Emergency personnel said they found a Smyth Sidewinder experimental aircraft had crashed.
The sole occupant, 66-year old David Biesemeier of Loveland, died.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 70-year-old Marilla man who left home on a snowmobile Thursday morning was found dead near his crashed snowmobile in the Town of Sheldon early this morning after an extensive search that included deputies, firefighters and members of a snowmobile club.
According to a press release from the Wyoming County Sheriff’s Office, Wesley J. Kless of E. Blood Road, Marilla went out for a ride on his snowmobile at 11 a.m. Thursday and was reported missing by a concerned family member some time later.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA 60-year-old pedestrian was killed early Monday after a truck struck him as he was crossing a street in Glendale, authorities said.
The accident occurred near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road just after 7 a.m. when an 81-year-old Glendale man driving a pickup truck hit a pedestrian who was jay walking, according the Glendale Fire Department.
The pedestrian, a 60-year-old man whose name has not been released until family can be notified, was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Speed and impairment were not factors in the crash.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014Area:
Pittsburgh, PAA husband and wife from Hanover died Sunday evening when a backhoe operated by a teenager drove into the path of their car on Route 116 in Heidelberg Township, York County, Southwestern Regional Police said.
Police identified the victims Monday as Roy Kline Jr., 86, and his 85-year-old wife, Lorraine. They did not identify the 17-year-old who was operating the backhoe and who lives near the scene of the accident. The investigation of the crash is continuing, police said.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Cincinnati, OHA woman died in a crash in Adams County on Wednesday evening.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said Phyllis A. Walls, 68, of West Union, was traveling southbound on Brush Creek Road at about 7:30 p.m. when she struck an oncoming pickup head on.
Walls was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Adams County coroner.
The pickup driver, Mary A. Channell, 69, of Manchester, was airlifted to UC Medical Center for treatment.
The crash remains under investigation.