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Thursday, December 5, 2013Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLThree people were injured in a Dunedin crash Friday that closed part a major road for six hours.
Two of the crash victims suffered life-threatening injuries, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
Investigators say the crash happened at about 11:43 a.m. at the intersection of Belcher and Highland Woods Drive, which is just south of Curlew Road.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013Area:
San Diego, CAA 22-year-old driver suspected of being under the influence of drugs and alcohol was arrested early Wednesday morning in a crash on the Rincon Indian Reservation.
The man was headed east on North Paradise Creek Lane near Valley Center Road about 6:15 a.m. in a Honda Civic when he drifted into westbound lanes and sideswiped a Toyota Tacoma, a California Highway Patrol Officer said.
The man told officers he had just taken off his seat belt and was reaching for his iPod.
He said the collision sent the Honda driver, Cory Allen of Valley Center, into the windshield.
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Monday, December 2, 2013Area:
Birmingham, ALIn Walker County, a Hamilton woman was killed. Troopers said 71-year-old Mable Criddle was a passenger in a vehicle that also lost control on a wet road, overturned and struck a tree.
That accident happened at 2:35 p.m. on Alabama 5, one mile north of Jasper. Criddle was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, troopers said
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Saturday, November 30, 2013Area:
Portland, ORA 26-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash Sunday morning in Gresham, police said.
Just after 7 a.m., Nichole Anstaett rolled her car after clipping the back of another car that was turning on Southeast Orient Drive near Southeast Salquist Road, said a spokesman with the Gresham Police Department.
Anstaett was not wearing a seatbelt and was partially ejected from her car. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
No one else was injured in the crash. Gresham police's crash team was continuing its investigation.
Police have not said if speed or alcohol were factors in the crash.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013Area:
Milwaukee, WIA head-on crash Thursday afternoon on Highway 120 in Lyons killed a Lake Geneva man and injured two others, according to a statement from the Walworth County Sheriff's Office.
At around 4 p.m. Jeffrey Peiffer, 52, of Lake Geneva, was driving south on Highway 120 north of Prairie Road when he crossed the center line and struck a car driven by Wolfgang Schubert, 69, of Wauconda, Ill., with one passenger, Rosalina Deinlein, 40, of Morton Grove, Ill.
The crash shut down the highway for hours.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013Area:
New Orleans, LAA Raceland man died Wednesday evening in Lafourche Parish when his vehicle struck a tree off Louisiana Highway 182 near Bayou Folse Road. Percy Hills, 44, was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from his 2008 Chevrolet Malibu around 9 p.m. after failing to navigate a curve in the road. Louisiana State Police are investigating the accident and toxicology tests are pending. Paramedics transported Hills to St. Anne General Hospital, in Raceland, where he died of his injuries.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013Area:
Spokane, WAA 50-year-old man is in critical condition at a Spokane hospital after his car hit a wall under an overpass in Spokane Valley on Sunday night. Spokane County sheriff’s deputies suspect the man had been drinking. Deputies responded around 9 p.m. to the collision on Argonne Road just south of Trent Avenue. Witnesses said the man was driving south when his car jumped the center median and hit the wall underneath the train overpass on the east side of the road. The man was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown partially out of the front windshield.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013A teenager involved in a wreck in southeastern Illinois late Saturday night has been pronounced dead. Four others had already died in the incident.
According to the Hamilton County Sherriff, six people were inside a Chevy Trailblazer when it lost control and flipped several times in McLeansboro, Ill. at 10:24 p.m. Five people were ejected from the vehicle when it flipped, with one person trapped inside wearing a seatbelt.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013The Colorado State Patrol says two men are dead after the trailer they were in crashed on the highway near Trinidad.
The C.S.P. says the men were in a 2010 Freightliner that was pulling two trailers southbound on Interstate 25 Thursday morning. The accident happened after the driver failed to negotiate a curve, overcorrected, and lost control of the trailer, which rolled.
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Monday, November 18, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA brother driving himself and three siblings in his Milaca family to school north of the Twin Cities pulled his minivan into the path of a semitrailer truck less than a mile from their destination, leaving his 13-year-old sister dead in a broadside collision, authorities said.
The crash occurred about 7:55 a.m. Tuesday at the T-intersection of Hwy. 23 and 127th Avenue, just west of Milaca, according to the State Patrol.
Killed was Katrina E. Maetzold, 13, the patrol said. No one in the van was wearing seat belts, the patrol added.