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Tuesday, January 21, 2014Area:
Los Angeles, CATwo Los Angeles police officers are recovering after a suspected drunken driver crashed into them, then sped away from the scene.
Investigators say the officers were traveling northbound on Vermont Avenue, just south of 74th Street, when they were rear-ended by a white BMW around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The officers' vehicle was disabled in the crash, and the suspect's car received front-end damage and a broken rim.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA 13-year-old boy was in the hospital Tuesday after he was injured in a hit-and-run crash.
The accident happened Monday night near Pulaski and Congress in Garfield Park. The 13-year old was crossing the street around 7 p.m. when police say the driver hit the boy, then took off down Pulaski heading south.
The boy was taken in serious-to-critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, a Chicago Fire Department Media Affairs spokesman said.
Area North detectives are investigating.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYA woman and two children who were traveling in the second vehicle, an SUV, were transported to area hospital, but their injuries are not considered life-threatening, MetroSafe said. The woman was taken to University Hospital; the two children to Kosair Children's Hospital. The crash occurred on U.S. 42 at Woodstone Way at 3:03 p.m. U.S. was closed in both directions, from Wolf Pen Branch Road to Seminary Drive for more than an hour but has since reopened.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014Area:
St. Louis, MOAn elderly man struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident in Hillsboro early Monday morning. According to officials with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Ronald Arndt, 80, was hit on northbound Route B near Marshak Way at 6:10 a.m. Arndt was reportedly laying in the road at the time of the accident. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers are searching for a suspect who is believed to be driving a maroon late 1990s Ford Ranger pickup truck with lower passenger-side damage.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014Area:
Portland, ORTwo people died in a hit and run accident involving two pickup trucks, police said. Irina Gardinant, 28, of Vancouver, died Monday morning as a result of a hit and run accident that occurred Sunday night in Vancouver. At approximately 8 p.m. Sunday, a pickup truck hit three pedestrians in a crosswalk, as it turned from Northeast 72nd Street onto Northeast Vancouver Mall Drive. Raisa Mosh, 45, of Vancouver, died Sunday. A third pedestrian sustained non-life-threatening injuries. A fourth pedestrian, a child, was not injured.
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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.
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Friday, January 17, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZTempe police have arrested a woman after she hit a pedestrian and caused a chain of car collisions in a Walmart parking lot.
Authorities say the female pedestrian is recovering for serious, non-life-threatening injuries after she was hit by 31-year-old Christy Kupper's vehicle Friday.
Police say Kupper collided with a vehicle in the intersection of Rural Road and Southern Avenue at about 6:20 p.m., causing that vehicle to hit another.
They say Kupper then sped away from the scene and into the Walmart parking lot.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLA Hillsborough county woman is in serious condition after being struck by a vehicle in a hit and run traffic crash at 14603 Sydney Road in Dover Friday morning.
40-year-old Stacey Parkensen was found lying next to the road and transported to a local hospital. The vehicle involved had left the scene of the accident according to Hillsborough County detectives.
HCSO located a front grill that is believed to be part of the suspect's vehicle that was knocked off at impact with Parkenson.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014Area:
Cleveland-Akron, OHAn Avon Lake man has been charged with aggravated vehicular assault after he fled the scene of an accident and seriously injured a woman who was driving to work, police said.
Alexander Potoczak, 22, was driving an Audi on Bradley Road in Westlake when he hit another car around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday and fled the scene, police said.
"He took off, struck another car and caused some serious injury to the other driver," said Capt. Guy Turner, public information officer for the Westlake police department.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014Area:
Washington, DCA University of Maryland student, Cory Hubbard, 22, was fatally struck by a vehicle early Friday as he crossed a street in College Park, in what police are calling a hit-and-run collision. Hubbard was struck shortly before 2 a.m. while walking across Baltimore Avenue at the intersection of Knox Road when he was hit.