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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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Monday, February 10, 2014Area:
Jacksonville, FLAn SUV crashed through a Larry's Giant Subs restaurant Tuesday afternoon after the driver had a medical emergency, according to Jacksonville police.
The crash happened at the restaurant at Lem Turner Road and Interstate 295 on the Northside about 2:45 p.m.
Police said the driver in a Honda CR-V was with his wife and stopped at a stop sign, then told wife he was having chest pain.
His wife told him to pull over, but the man passed out, slumped over the wheel and pressed the gas, police said. They said the SUV then went into the restaurant.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014Area:
Houston, TXAuthorities are trying to figure out why a car crashed into a plasma center in southwest Houston.
It happened around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Grifols donor center located in the 8400 block of W. Bellfort near S. Gessner.
Authorities said a woman in her 20s drove the vehicle into the building.
Houston police and firefighters with the Houston Fire Department responded to the scene.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYIt was a wild scene Wednesday afternoon in Elizabethtown after police said a woman rammed her car right into the front entrance of a busy Kroger store, injuring two people, and has quite a history with grocery stores and crashes. Police said 52-year-old June Ann Blocker drove her car into a checkout lane. Apparently Blocker bought a 2006 four-door Lincoln earlier in the day for the sole purpose of crashing it into the store. Police said Blocker was charged more than a decade ago with doing the exact same thing at another Elizabethtown Kroger. Following Wednesday's incident she is facing cha
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014A big-rig that took out traffic signals on Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose Tuesday morning has prompted the California Highway Patrol to issue a Sig-alert for the affected area.
The incident involved a wide-load big rig hauling a portable building and was reported at 6:32 a.m. on Stevens Creek Boulevard at North Monroe Street, CHP Officer Eric Anderson said.
As of 6:50 a.m., westbound Stevens Creek Boulevard from southbound Interstate Highway 880 was closed to due power lines down in the roadway, according to Anderson.
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Saturday, February 1, 2014A Dover man was arrested Sunday after police in Middletown said he drove drunk, crashed a stolen vehicle into the Hurst building on South Union Street and then fled the scene of the crash.
Rueben Jason Estrada, 30, of the 3300 block of Village Court Drive, was arrested in the vicinity of a 7-11 store on East Main Street after the incident occurred around 2 a.m., police said.
The crash caused serious damage to the building, located at 29 South Union Street, according to authorities. Estrada also did not have permission to drive the vehicle involved in the incident, police said.
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Friday, January 31, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 31-year-old Ohio woman was arrested overnight for snowmobiling while intoxicated after she crashed into an ice fishing shanty, narrowly missing the three occupants, on Chautauqua Lake, sheriff’s deputies reported.
Chautauqua County deputies responded at 1 a.m. to the reported accident. They found that Christina M. Black, of Burghill, Ohio, had been operating a 2006 Ski-Doo snowmobile northbound on the lake’s frozen surface, about 200 yards from the shore of Lakeside Park in Mayville, when she struck the shanty, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZThe driver of a school bus is dead after the bus crashed through a brick wall Wednesday morning, according to a Phoenix Police Department spokesman.
The driver was eastbound on Dove Valley Road just before 7 a.m. and was attempting a U-turn when the bus made a complete circle before crossing the median, striking the wall and stopping just short of a house on a county island just south of Carefree Highway and east of Interstate 17.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Omaha, NEAt least 10 people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped after an explosion and partial building collapse Monday at an Omaha animal feed processing plant.
Interim Omaha Fire Chief Bernie Kanger said he's not sure how many workers could be trapped in the wreckage of the International Nutrition plant. The fire that followed the explosion around 10 a.m. has been extinguished, but firefighters gingerly searched the structure, fearing that more debris could rain down.
"It's very extreme conditions" inside the plant now, Kanger said. "There is significant structural damage inside."
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Friday, January 17, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYAided by a witness who followed a hit-and-run driver, police arrested a Youngstown woman on a variety of charges early Saturday stemming from an accident on the Robert Moses Parkway.
According to reports, the suspect struck a car driven by a Youngstown man around 5:30 a.m., then drove away from the scene. A witness to the accident followed the fleeing driver, and sheriff’s deputies were able to stop her car on Blairville Road a short time later. Carole R. Rossi displayed signs of intoxication and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.16, twice the legal limit, police said.