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Date:
Thursday, December 26, 2013Area:
Los Angeles, CAA 19-year-old driver had to be rescued after his car went off a cliff and plunged into the ocean in Palos Verdes.
The incident happened around 2 a.m. Friday on the 1300 block of Paseo del Mar. Responding officers said they could hear someone calling for help, so rescue crews from the fire department were called to the scene.
The 19-year-old male victim was pulled from the car and airlifed to a hospital in Torrance with serious injuries.
Date:
Tuesday, December 3, 2013Area:
New York, NYA paraglider pilot was killed after crashing through a frozen river in upstate New York Wednesday afternoon, state police say.
The pilot, 47-year-old Rupert Cebular, crashed while practicing touch-and-go maneuvers on the ice-covered Wallkill River near Soons Orchard in Orange County, police say. The man broke through the ice and lost control of the paraglider.
A second paraglider and workers nearby tried to pull Cebular from under the ice using a rope, but were unsuccessful. They eventually pulled his body from the river.