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Tuesday, February 11, 2014A driver has died after running off the roadway and landing in a body of water in Suffolk Wednesday morning.
A City of Suffolk spokesperson said emergency crews received a call from the driver around 6 a.m. about the crash. The driver said his vehicle had left the roadway and was submerged in a body of water, but he wasn’t sure of his exact location.
Crews were able to get a ping from the cell phone tower the call came from to get a location. Emergency crews from Suffolk, Southampton County, Franklin, Isle of Wight County and State Police all responded to try to search for the crash.
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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.
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Monday, February 10, 2014A mother has been pronounced dead after the vehicle she was inside with her husband and two small children crashed into a Suffolk pond Tuesday night.
Just before 8 p.m., a vehicle made by Nissan in the 6700 block of Burbage Landing Circle left the roadway and traveled into a retention pond, according to the Suffolk Police.
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Friday, February 7, 2014A snowmobiler has died in an early morning crash in the southern New Hampshire town of Washington.
Police say 62-year-old Peter Kavalauskas of Dover was snowmobiling with his son and friends early Saturday morning when he lost control and crashed into the shoreline on Millen Pond.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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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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Friday, January 31, 2014Area:
Portland-Auburn, MEA 58-year-old woman was killed Saturday night in a snowmobile crash on Success Pond, the N.H. Fish and Game Department reported.
Officials said Lucie Gagnon of Berlin was riding across Success Pond Saturday just prior to 10 p.m. when her snowmobile struck an embankment and a large tree. Gagnon suffered severe trauma as a result of the crash and died at the scene, Fish and Game reported in a prepared statement Sunday.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014Area:
Waco-Temple-Bryan, TXA Baylor University stadium construction worker was killed and a co-worker was treated for hypothermia after an accident that plunged both into the Brazos River. Waco police said the two men were working on a pedestrian bridge over the river on Tuesday. They were pulled into the water when some construction equipment they were harnessed to fell from a floating dock. Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton says one man unfastened his safety harness and made it to the surface. He was treated and released from a hospital.
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Monday, January 27, 2014Area:
Portland, ORA driver, whose vehicle veered off the road and plunged through brambles into a creek front first, had to be extricated in a tricky emergency operation.
The car dove into the creek in the 6700 block of 35th Avenue Northeast, north of Keizer, about 10:30 a.m. Fire crews were called to the scene to rescue the driver, who was trapped in the vehicle.
Before they could get him out of the car, they had to clear the tangle of brush from the hillside. Crews used ladders to climb down to the car. Within 10 minutes, emergency personnel got him out.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WATwo people have been hospitalized with serious injuries following a single-vehicle crash near Kingston. Witnesses told authorities an SUV was heading east on state Highway 104 around 6:15 a.m. when it ran a red light at Hansville Road, veered across the road and landed upright in a small retention pond. When fire crews arrived, they found two adults inside the vehicle — one conscious and the other unconscious. Both were rushed to a hospital.
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Friday, January 10, 2014Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA Minnesota man is dead after a crash on Saturday night northwest of the metro.
The Morrison County Sheriff's Office says 25-year-old Levi Hillyer of Pierz was driving northbound on Park Avenue when his vehicle approached a bridge, left the roadway and hit a river bank around 7:45 p.m. in Pierz.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
There no information on the cause of the crash.