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Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTThe Utah Highway Patrol says a roll over crash happened on Interstate-15 near Parowan Friday afternoon.
A southbound vehicle blew a rear tire and it rolled off the highway. The vehicle came to rest on it's side.
The 36-year-old male driver was uninjured in the crash, but his wife was pinned in the Ford Expedition and she had to be freed by the fire department.
The woman sustained some moderate injuries in the crash, according to a UHP press release.
Three children were also in the car and they were treated and released from a local hospital in Cedar City.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014Area:
Houston, TXA man is dead after driving the wrong way and crashing into an 18-wheeler.
According to the Houston Police Department, a man was driving a white Chevy Silverado pickup truck around 10:00 p.m. Friday.
The man somehow got on the westbound feeder lanes of I-10 going eastbound, the wrong direction
The driver then slammed head-on into an 18-wheeler going westbound.
The 25-year-old driver of the pickup truck was trapped in the truck and had to be extricated once police arrived.
He was taken to Hermann Memorial Hospital by Lifeflight in critical condition, where he later died.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014Area:
Charlotte, NCA Charlotte student was taken to the hospital after a wreck involving a school bus Friday afternoon.
The accident happened just before 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of Shamrock Drive and Crestmont Drive in east Charlotte.
Police stated that the wreck involved a school bus from Harding High School and another vehicle. One person was pinned in the other vehicle, and is expected to be okay.
One student was riding the bus at the time of the accident. That student was taken to the hospital. Their condition has not been released.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLTampa Fire Rescue officials say two people were hurt in a two-car crash on Interstate 4 Thursday night.
It happened near I-4 eastbound and North 22nd Street. Officials say one car, with a man and woman inside, was stopped on the side of the interstate with a flat tire.
Investigators say a second car crashed in to the back of the stopped car, and one of the cars caught fire.
Tampa Fire Rescue officials say one person in the stopped car was taken to Tampa General Hospital with serious injuries. The second person in that car was not hurt.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014Area:
Indianapolis, INEmergency personnel were on the scene of a crash Thursday morning where two children were struck by a school bus, police dispatchers said.
Police say a Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation school bus was involved in the crash in the 2500 block of West Chaucer Drive around 7:37 a.m. Police said two Taylorsville Elementary students had been hit.
The crash happened near Taylorsville, just south of where Interstate 65 and US 31 cross .
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYA trooper discovered that a 2001 four-door Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was traveling east near 568 East Crothersville Road when it suddenly crossed into the eastbound lane, hitting a tree on the north side of the road. It then flipped into the ditch. A passerby discovered the crash when he got out of his vehicle to move the tree that had been struck by the pickup truck. Sgt. Jerry Goodin with ISP said the passerby heard children yelling for help, so he walked to the edge of the roadway and saw the overturned truck.
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Thursday, February 20, 2014Area:
Hattiesburg-Laurel, MSAccording to officials with the Hattiesburg Police Department, a downed tree and power line has claimed one life.
A HPD Lieutenant stated that a tree fell on top of a car, causing some power lines to break. The incident one person is dead. The accident happened somewhere on Richburg Road, near Nellwood Drive, in the Hattiesburg city limits.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014Area:
Memphis, TNA crash involving multiple vehicles and a private ambulance sent five people to the hospital Thursday, one in critical condition.
None of the people inside the three vehicles suffered life-threatening injuries after the incident at Interstate 240 and Perkins Avenue.
The median was more of a wall that a SUV flipped over. A car somehow became shoved under the ambulance.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014Area:
New Orleans, LAThe northbound lanes of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway have reopened following an earlier wreck, according to Causeway officials.
The Bridge General Manager said a three-vehicle wreck occurred near the drawbridge at around 10 a.m. The drawbridge was open to allow a barge to pass, he said. A northbound driver did not stop and plowed into the back of a stopped vehicle, he said.
St. Tammany Fire District No. 1 spokesman Jason Kaufmann said one person had to be extricated. That person was taken to a local hospital, he said.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLThe Florida Highway Patrol has reopened all lanes of Interstate 75 at Gibsonton Drive following a fatal accident involving a car and an ABC Liquor semi truck.
A FHP Sgt. says the semi and a BMW collided on the interstate around 2:30 a.m. in low visibility conditions. The car's driver skidded off the bridge and landed in water, about 20-feet below, in the Alafia River. The vehicle was pulled from the river around 4:30 a.m. with the driver still inside.
Sgt. Gaskins says the driver of the BMW died at the scene. The driver of the semi was taken to Tampa General Hospital with minor injuries.