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Wednesday, July 9, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYJustin Beeler was believed to be chasing a man driving a Chrysler riddled with bullet holes when his vehicle struck a tree. Beeler died in the accident. The other driver was identified as Michael D. Nevins, 43.
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Monday, May 26, 2014Area:
Springfield-Holyoke, MAThe man killed in a two-car accident Tuesday night at Main and Berkshire streets in Holyoke has been identified as Danny Lugo, 25, of Springfield, according to Massachusetts State Police.
Lugo was killed when he crashed his black Honda head-on into an SUV operated by a 61-year-old Holyoke man. The impact left the Holyoke man with serious injuries, and he is being treated in the Intensive Care Unit at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, said Lt. Daniel G. Richard of the state police Media Relations Bureau.
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Friday, May 16, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTInvestigators have identified one of the three people who died in a rollover crash near the Salt Lake City International Airport.
Michaela Martin, 18, of Taylorsville and two boys died Saturday after their vehicle flipped into a retention pond at the end of a chase on Interstate 80, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. The 24-year-old driver of the black Volkswagen, who survived, allegedly sped out of a parking garage at the airport at about 5 a.m. and would not stop for an airport police officer, according to UHP Lt. Jeff Nigber.
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Thursday, April 24, 2014Three teenagers died when a stolen car crashed into a tree and caught fire after a chase early Friday, authorities said. The names of those killed have not been released, but police say they were a girl and two boys, all 16 and all from Modesto. According to Modesto Police Sgt. David Chamberlain, a police officer in central Modesto tried to stop a car after seeing the driver violate a vehicle code at 11:40 p.m.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014Area:
Columbus, GAA motorcyclist crashed after a high speed chase with authorities in East Alabama, according to the Lee County sheriff.
Officials say the chase began when the motorcyclist was speeding and deputies attempted to pull him over at the intersection of Lee Road 212 and Lee Road 240 in Lee County.
Officials say the man, later identified as Travis Cooley, 23, then sped off in the wrong direction on Highway 431. The chase ended in a crash at Knowles Road and 5th Street in Russell County.
The motorcyclist was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Monday, April 14, 2014Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WATwo state troopers sustained minor injuries when their cars collided early Tuesday as they were rushing to help in a stolen car chase near Lynnwood. The patrol cars collided at an intersection when one failed to make a turn and were totaled in the collision. The two troopers were treated for minor injuries at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and released. One man had a concussion and broken finger and the other had bruised legs. The incident began just after midnight when another trooper pulled over a car on Interstate 5 south of Everett.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WAThe only person seriously hurt was the driver who investigators say caused the wreck. Officers said they believe the woman was intoxicated. Dispatchers first started getting calls about her driving an SUV erratically about 6 p.m. The driver continued into Bellevue before she made her way back to Redmond. Police said she hit one car then, then another, after running over spike strips and crashing on Avondale Road. “The 30-year-old driver was actually pinned in the vehicle. She had to be extricated and was taken to Harborview.
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Sunday, April 6, 2014Area:
Richmond-Petersburg, VAVirginia State Police are investigating a collision between a trooper’s cruiser and a minivan that occurred as the officer was pursuing another vehicle.
A State police spokeswoman says Trooper M.W. Deus, the minivan’s 31-year-old female driver and her 10-year-old and 9-year-old daughters suffered non-life threatening injuries. They were taken to VCU Medical Center for treatment.
The woman’s 1-year-old son wasn’t injured.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014A 22-year-old is dead and a male suspect was critically injured after a chase led to a wrong-way, head-on crash on Interstate 40 in Greensboro Thursday night.
Reagan Hartley and the suspect, Ronnie Fichera, 46, were injured around 10:20 p.m. just west of the Patterson Street exit.
Hartley died on the way to the hospital, and Fichera was taken to a hospital for treatment of critical injuries, Greensboro police said.
The crash happened after Fichera's Ford Expedition exited I-40 west at High Point Road, went around Four Seasons Mall and entered I-40 east going westbound, police said.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA man is dead after he crashed during a high-speed police chase Wednesday morning in northwest Indiana.
He has been identified as Nicholas B. Moore, 26, of Gary, Ind., according to a release from the Lake County Coroner's office.
Merrillville police were chasing Moore after he carjacked a black Mercedes sedan shortly after 10 a.m., officers at the scene said.
Moore drove north into Gary, where police followed him onto Georgia Street and then north to Ridge Road (U.S. 6), where Merrillville police said they abandoned the pursuit.