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Friday, April 4, 2014

Delaware State Police are investigating a motorcycle accident in Newark that critically injured one person Saturday night.

Police say a motorcycle collided with an SUV on Augusta Drive and East Chestnut Hill Road around 10:00 p.m.

The injured cyclist was taken to Christiana Hospital with critical injuries.

The accident remains under investigation.

Date: 
Thursday, April 3, 2014

A motorist was hospitalized after his car collided with a DART bus in Wilmington and overturned.

It happened in the 1900 block of Market Street after 10:00 a.m. Friday.

Police say a Toyota Corolla was struck by a DART bus and overturned onto a sidewalk.

The 54-year-old driver was taken to Christiana Hospital.

There was no immediate word on the extent of his injuries.

Police said no one on the bus was injured.

Market Street was closed between 18th Street and Concord Avenue for about an hour after the crash.

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Thursday, April 3, 2014
Police say a 75-year-old woman is dead after a fatal crash car crash in Newark. Newark Police say it happened Friday evening at about 10:15 on Library Avenue just north of Farm Lane. Police say a preliminary investigation found that a 75-year-old Dorothy Hershman of Newark was driving southbound on Library Avenue when for an unknown reason she crossed the road's center line and ran head-on into a car traveling northbound. Hershman was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Date: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Police say a man was killed after being struck by a train in Wilmington, Delaware early Thursday morning.

The accident happened around 12:30 a.m. at 12th and Claymont Streets.

According to police, the man was found on a railroad overpass.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say the victim had been reported missing around 11:00 p.m.Wednesday.

Amtrak service was halted at the location as police investigated.

Date: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Three teenagers were injured, one critically, when the car they were in collided with a tractor-trailer in Middletown, Delaware Thursday afternoon.

It was around 3:10 p.m. when the Plymouth Breeze the teens were in was headed eastbound on Hyett's Corner Road, and stopped at the stop sign at the intersection with Dupont Parkway.

While attempting to make a left turn onto northbound Dupont Parkway, a southbound tractor-trailer collided with the driver's side of the Plymouth.

Date: 
Friday, March 21, 2014

A Maryland man riding his motorcycle has died after a crash in Delaware.

The crash happened around 8:40 p.m. Saturday in the area of East Chestnut Hill Road and South Kingston Road in Newark.

Police say 39-year-old Victor Cruz of Elkton, Maryland was riding his motorcycle eastbound on East Chestnut Hill Road when he struck the rear of a pickup truck making a left turn.

Cruz, who was not wearing a helmet, was thrown from his motorcycle and then struck by the driver of a Honda CRV.

Cruz was taken to Christian Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

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Friday, March 21, 2014
Wilmington Police are investigating a motorcycle accident that seriously injured two people Saturday night. Police say a motorcyclist struck a pedestrian and a parked car before being ejected from the bike. The accident happened at 23rd and Market Streets just before 10:00 p.m. The victims were taken to Christiana Hospital with serious injuries. The accident remains under investigation.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
Police are investigating a Wilbur school bus accident in New Castle County. Around 8:15 a.m. Thursday morning, a vehicle rear-ended the bus as it was getting ready to turn on to Wrangle Hill Road. Officials say 45 students were on the bus and 14 of them were sent to Christiana Hospital. The bus driver, Nichole Lambert, 26, and the driver of the other vehicle Madison Brooks, 23, were also taken for treatment. They were all treated and released.
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Monday, March 10, 2014

An out-of-control car smashed into a Delaware town hall overnight sending at least one person to the hospital and leaving the town cleaning up bricks and debris.

A man was driving along Justis Street in Newport, Del. when he missed a curve, jumped a curb, hit a sign, drove over a stretch of lawn and smashed into Newport Old Town Hall around 1:30 a.m.

The impact of the wreck left gaping hole under a window in the side of the historic New Castle County building that is used for town meetings and court hearings in the town of about 1,000 residents.

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Several sorority sisters from the University of Delaware were injured when a bus taking about 40 people to a party during homecoming week overturned in a crash with a tractor trailer, authorities said.

The crash occurred just after 10 p.m. Thursday at an intersection in Bear, south of Wilmington, when a tractor trailer ran a red light and hit the bus as it made a left turn, Delaware State Police said. The truck driver, Roberto Figueroa-Gomez, 26, of Miami was issued a summons for failing to stop at a red light, police said.