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Friday, January 17, 2014Authorities say a man has died following a weekend snowmobile crash in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.
31-year-old Jeffery D. Wright died Saturday after the crash in Wexford County's Clam Lake Township. Investigators say he lost control, and went off a trail and down an embankment before hitting trees.
The crash happened about 35 miles southeast of Traverse City. Wright is identified as being from Vicksburg, southeast of Kalamazoo.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014Area:
Milwaukee, WIMilwaukee police said a 16-year-old boy is dead after a crash early Thursday.
The crash happened around 1:20 a.m. near North 33rd Street and Capitol Drive.
Police said the 2004 Jeep he was in was traveling east on Capitol Drive when it left the roadway and struck a tree in the median.
Police said they are trying to determine whether he was driving or there were other people in the SUV that left the scene.
The Jeep was reported stolen on Jan. 14.
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Thursday, January 9, 2014A teenage girl died and another was injured in a high-speed wreck on an isolated street near the Port of Oakland early Friday morning, an area known for illegal street racing.
Police officers responding to reports of an accident just after midnight on the 500 block of Maritime Street found that a vehicle had left the roadway and collided with a pole, officials said.
The girls in the vehicle, both 17-year-olds from outside Oakland, were taken to a hospital, where the driver, who has been identified as Kaitlyn Benson, was later pronounced dead.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Buffalo, NYPolice in the Town of Hamburg are investigating a deadly car accident early Wednesday morning.
Police say around 4:55 a.m. a vehicle was traveling east on Lakeshore Road when it went off the roadway. The car hit a tree and rolled over onto it's roof.
The driver, 58-year-old Robert Voelker, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are continuing their investigation. They say alcohol doesn't appear to be a factor.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Nashville, TNEmergency workers in Robertson County can't believe a man walked away from a terrible accident without being seriously hurt.
Police say Christopher Burnette's vehicle hit a guardrail on Tom Austin Highway in Springfield and then rolled multiple times, all the way down to the bottom of a 50-foot ravine just after midnight Wednesday.
Burnette, who had a broken arm but no serious injuries, was able to walk back up to the highway and wait for help.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating the wreck.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A mother has been charged with driving under the influence after her two young children were killed in a car crash, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
Troopers said Melissa Patton, 32, is charged with two counts of felony driving under the influence and driving under suspension.
According to troopers, Patton was driving a car at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday on Wells Highway when the car traveled off the road, hit a church sign and overturned.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAOne person was killed and three people were injured early Wednesday morning in a Burien crash. The collision happened at the intersection of 112th and 12th Avenue before 3 a.m when a vehicle crashed into a tree. There were three men and one woman, believed to be in their 20s, in the vehicle. One person died at the scene and the three others were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Deputies believe speed and fog were factors in the crash and it is unknown if alcohol was involved.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013A man has died after he lost control of his car in Greenville County Wednesday morning, according to South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers.
The wreck happened at 4:45 a.m. on Fork Shoals Road near McKelvey Road, troopers said.
The Greenville County coroner identified the man as 27-year-old Aaron Robert Carlberg of Simpsonville.
The coroner said Carlberg was not wearing his seat belt when his car left the roadway and went up an embankment before hitting several trees. The vehicle overturned and Carlberg was partially ejected.
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Monday, December 30, 2013North Carolina Highway Patrol says an infant was one of three people who died because of a vehicle crash in Bertie County Friday night.
Two adults and a baby were traveling west on State Road 1001 near Colerain when their vehicle strayed to the right of the road, struck a ditch and crashed into a tree.
Troopers say the vehicle caught fire, and 48-year-old Willie Lee Perry, 52-year-old Phyllis Perry, and 1-year-old Madison Perry passed away.
Highway Patrol said the three shared the same home address, but it is not clear the exact relationship between them.
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Monday, December 30, 201317-year-old Hayleigh Borton is in critical condition after a car crash in Lowell Township Wednesday morning.
It happened in the 11000 block of 36th Street SE.
According to police, 18-year-old Alexandra Tremblay was driving a Ford Taurus west on 36th Street when she tried to avoid a pickup truck that had stopped on the road to help a driver who had gone into a ditch.
Tremblay was not injured, but the girl in the front passenger seat was seriously injured. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment.