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Thursday, February 20, 2014Area:
Jacksonville, FLThe Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a wreck early Friday morning involving a church van on the U.S. 90 ramp to Interstate 75. Columbia County Fire-Rescue reported that two adults, later identified as Jeff Novak, 52, and Michalanne Salliotte, 42, were killed and three children were injured, one of them critically.
The van crashed about 8:20 a.m. when a tire blew out and the vehicle overturned. The driver and the second adult victim were thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. It wasn't clear of they were wearing seat belts.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014A Newport News police officer suffered a medical emergency while on duty Thursday afternoon, causing the police cruiser she was driving to travel across Denbigh Boulevard, striking two civilian vehicles.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014Area:
Hartford & New Haven, CTTwo adults and two children were taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries following a car crash on Trout Brook Drive in West Hartford that severely damaged both cars involved, according to police.
Police said 18-year-old Nhi Phan was driving southbound on Trout Brook Drive in the area of Fern Street around 10:40 Wednesday morning when she lost control of her vehicle, which slid into the northbound lane and struck a car driven by Erik Beard, 41.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014Area:
Memphis, TNA Wednesday morning school bus accident sent 18 people including students to Memphis hospitals. The crash happened at Winchester Road and South Goodlett Street, near Lamar Avenue.
Memphis Fire Department says at least five ambulances were called to the accident that happened just before. 7 a.m.
Students that were hurt had minor injuries and were taken to hospitals, including Le Bonheur Children's Hospital.
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Monday, February 17, 2014Area:
Memphis, TNEleven people in a sport utility vehicle were critically injured in a crash that occurred at Berta Road and Shelby Drive on Tuesday night.
At least two of the adults were taken to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis in critical condition. Eight children were taken to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital where they were being treated and assessed, according to Le Bonheur spokeswoman Sara Burnett.
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Monday, February 17, 2014Area:
Los Angeles, CAThree pedestrians, including two children, were injured in an accident in the parking lot of Walmart in the Panorama City area Tuesday.
A Los Angeles City Fire Department official says two cars collided in the parking lot of Walmart in the 14500 block of Roscoe Boulevard at about 11:25 a.m. The crash caused one of the vehicles to hit three pedestrians.
The victims were transported to a local hospital. An 8-year-old boy was in critical condition, a 37-year-old man was in serious condition and a 9-year-old girl was in fair condition.
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Sunday, February 16, 2014Area:
Milwaukee, WISix Hartford Union High School students were injured Monday when a school bus left a snow-covered road and crashed into a tree, according to City of Hartford Fire and Rescue.
The students were being driven home when the crash was reported about 4 p.m. on Valley Road in Dodge County, according to a news release.
According to the release, roads were snow-covered and slippery, and the bus driver reported near whiteout conditions at the time of the crash.
The injured students, among 10 students on board the bus, were taken to a hospital with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening.
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Sunday, February 16, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYA New Albany woman, later identified as Karen Davis, 52, died Monday afternoon in a head-on wreck on Old Ind. 403 in Charlestown. The woman was southbound on the Clark County road about 2:30 p.m. when her car and another car collided near the Danbury Oaks subdivision, said a detective with the Charlestown Police Department. A 28-year-old Charlestown man who was driving the other car, a Buick, had his four-year-old son with him at the time of the collision.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014Area:
Denver, COOswaldo Lopez, the man accused in the hit-and-run death of an 11-year-old boy on Federal Boulevard, was charged Tuesday morning with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Lopez, 21, has been in jail since Sunday night, when he was arrested at his home in Aurora.
Several people were in the Denver courtroom to support Lopez, but all declined to comment.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTA three-vehicle accident in Tooele County left three people dead and six injured on Sunday afternoon.
A van carrying seven people in a youth church group from Dugway to Salt Lake City attempted to turn into the passing lane of S.R. 36 in Stansbury Park, shortly before 3:30 p.m., when another vehicle clipped the back bumper, sending the van into oncoming traffic, according to Trooper Evan Kirby of Utah Highway Patrol. A red Subaru then struck the passenger side of the van.