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Thursday, April 9, 2015Area:
Los Angeles, CAA car with four people inside plunged off a road near Berth 73 into Los Angeles harbor, leaving a 13-year-old boy and an 8-year-old boy dead. A man and woman were able to swim to the surface and are reportedly in fair condition. The two boys had to be rescued from the car that was in 30 feet of water, and the older one, later identified as Abdelkrim Ali Elmezayen, was declared dead at a hospital a few hours later. The younger remains in grave condition. The accident happened at about 6:30 Thursday evening. Check back for updates.
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Friday, April 3, 2015Area:
Columbus, GALylah Gavulic, 2, drowned in her family pool on County Line Road. She was discovered floating facec down Friday evening, and taken to Midtown Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Good Samaritans Leo Moody and Wade Shorey rescue baby from submerged SUV in Washington County, Maine
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Monday, November 17, 2014Area:
Bangor, MEOn Monday, Stephen McGouldrick, 55, slid on ice and lost control of his SUV on an icy road and rolled the vehicle down an embankment into 2 1/2 feet of water, landing upside-down and sumberging a 3-month-old infant girl in the back seat. Passerby Leo Moody, of Kingman, crawled into the SUV and freed the baby by using a knife to cut the straps of her car seat. The baby girl was not breathing and unresponsive when she was pulled free, and another passer-by, Wade Shorey, initiated CPR and successfully resuscitated her.
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Friday, May 16, 2014Area:
St. Louis, MOA 3-year-old boy died and two other people were seriously hurt Saturday when their car ran off a highway in Ste. Genevieve County and hit an embankment, authorities said. The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the boy as Gabriel D. Ratliff, of St. Mary, Mo. Seriously injured were Brandon D. Ratliff, 24, of Farmington, Mo., and Michael A. Ratliff, 1, also of St. Mary.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014A mother behind the wheel of a minivan that was driven with her three children into the surf off Daytona Beach, Fla., is undergoing a mental evaluation.
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office also said Wednesday that the children were turned over to the care of the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Bystanders and officers helped pull the woman, later identified as Ebony Wilkerson, and her children - ages 3, 9 and 10 - from their minivan after it became nearly submerged in the Atlantic surf Tuesday afternoon.
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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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Sunday, February 23, 2014Area:
Chattanooga, TNWhen their mother's SUV slipped into a pond Monday night, police say, a baby and a 3-year-old girl sat in the back row, strapped into car seats.
Monique H. Einwechter, 24, of Lititz, Pa., had been driving a Ford Expedition down a long driveway around 8:45 p.m. CST when she reached the pond, located on her father's property. She had four children in the car, none of them older than 3-year-old Susan.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014Area:
Portland-Auburn, METhree people, including a 6-year-old boy, escaped serious injury when the all-terrain vehicle they were on broke through the ice of China Lake.
The operator of the ATV, Lucas Cole of Benton, was trapped in the water for about five minutes and suffered hypothermia and frostbite.
The 25-year-old Cole stated that he went under the water three times before his friend, Donald Cowles, pulled him free.
Cowles threw his 6-year-old nephew to safety first.
All three were treated at the hospital.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013Area:
Los Angeles, CAA driver was arrested Thursday night for allegedly slamming into a car, sending it and four passengers plunging into a flood control channel, then driving away from the crash, authorities said.
The hit-and-run collision happened about 7:40 p.m. near Parthenia Street and Noble Avenue in North Hills, according to a watch commander with the Los Angeles Police Department Valley Traffic Division.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013A 2-month-old child and a pair of adults dodged death when a passing driver clipped their car on an icy road near Klamath Falls on Wednesday and sent both vehicles flying into an irrigation canal, police said.
Howard Kingman, of Sisters, was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe north on U.S. 97 around 1:05 p.m. when he tried to pass a Toyota Prius near milepost 264, Oregon State Police said.
The 70-year-old driver lost control on the icy roadway and struck the Prius, which carried Robert Burton, 56, Bree Burton, 20, and her infant son, police said.