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Monday, April 21, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTA teenager was in critical condition Wednesday after his vehicle veered off the road and crashed into a home in Salt Lake City Tuesday.
Salt Lake City police report that they were called to a home at 532 N. Redwood Road at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday after the boy’s car somehow went off the road and crashed through the house into the living room.
No one inside the home was injured, but the driver was transported to a local hospital in critical condition.
The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
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Saturday, April 19, 2014Area:
Des Moines-Ames, IAA Des Moines man is dead after his Jeep got stuck in a pool of water while off-roading Sunday night.
It happened around 8:00 p.m. south of the Des Moines River near Southeast 45th Street and Evergreen.
Police say 21-year-old Matthew Blackford got his Jeep stuck in a pool of water while off-roading with friends and when he tried to get out he fell in and became unresponsive.
His friends got him out of the water and started CPR. Paramedics took Blackford to the hospital where he later died.
Police took his three friends to the station for questioning.
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Saturday, April 19, 2014Area:
Monroe, LA-El Dorado, AROne teen was killed and another injured Sunday after an all-terrain vehicle hit a tree in El Dorado.
Arkansas State Police say it happened shortly after 6 p.m. as Antquese D. Frazier, 19, operated a 2003 Yamaha ATV south on Lakeland Street near Houston Street.
According to an accident report, the ATV went out of control and was overcorrected. It then hit a tree.
A passenger on the vehicle, 18-year-old Shakena L. Ford of El Dorado, died from unspecified injuries.
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Friday, April 18, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZTwo girls were taken to the hospital after they were injured Saturday evening in an ATV accident, police say.
A 12-year-old, later identified as Stephanie Quinonez, and 16-year-old, later identified as Shiely Quinonez, were riding an ATV near 36th and Minnezona avenues, said Sgt. Steve Martos, spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department.
The girls were trying to take a photo when the ATV they were riding on collided with a parked vehicle, Martos said.
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Friday, April 18, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYOne driver is dead and another driver is in critical condition after a head-on collision in Pleasure Ridge Park early Saturday morning.
According to police, just after 2:30 a.m., a 31-year-old man driving a SUV on the wrong side of the Greenbelt Highway hit another SUV driven by a 17-year-old woman, later identified as Elissa Greenwell, heading south near the intersection with Greenwood Road.
A spokeswoman for the Louisville Metro Police Department, said both drivers had to be extricated from their vehicles by Louisville Metro EMS and the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Department.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014Area:
Boston, MAThe victims of a fatal crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Framingham this week have been identified as Connecticut residents.
Police say 20-year-old William Barnett and 19-year-old Alyssa Grenier, both of Stafford Springs, Conn., died when their minivan was struck by a tractor-trailer hauling lumber just after 5 a.m. Wednesday on the eastbound side of the highway.
Barnett, the driver, and Grenier, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The truck driver was hospitalized with injuries not considered life threatening.
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Monday, April 14, 2014Area:
Phoenix, AZA 19-year-old man is dead and a search is underway for the driver of a Chevy pickup in what witnesses described as a street racing collision involving a third vehicle.
Witnesses told Phoenix police an older model white 1964 or 1965 Chevy pickup truck was racing with the driver of a Nissan Sentra about 2:45 p.m. Monday.
"Witness accounts have these two vehicles racing on 16th Street from Broadway northbound, weaving in and out of traffic," said Phoenix Police.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014Area:
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TXA crash in Lamar County early Sunday morning killed three teenagers and sent five others to hospitals.
The Department of Public Safety said the pickup carrying eight people had just crossed over the Pat Mayse Lake dam on Highway 906, north of Paris and just south of the Oklahoma border.
Troopers said the 2005 Chevrolet truck was speeding when it left the road, hit some trees and landed in a ditch. The male driver and two female passengers were killed. The were identified as:
Robert Russell, 18, from Paris
Colbie Miller, 19, from Paris
Bailee Elizabeth Sims, 19, from Paris
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Friday, April 4, 2014Area:
Memphis, TNFriends are mourning the loss of 19-year-old Keleian Braden Sunday night, another possible victim of street racing gone terribly wrong.
It's happening in streets across the country, but far too often ends in tragedy. Brandon Roques says his 19-year-old brother Keleian Braden was a just spectator at a street race in Raleigh Saturday evening.
"He's down here almost every Saturday, just so happened this Saturday he just got killed," said Roques.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014Area:
Portland, ORTaft High 7-12 senior Cayden Thomas Fitch, who recently was honored as an Eagle Scout and was bound for the U.S. Navy upon graduation, was killed Friday in a head-on traffic accident on Highway 22 about three miles west of Dallas.
According to Oregon State Police (OSP), Fitch, 18, was driving a 1995 Ford Ranger pickup with his passenger/father, Bryan Fitch, 43, an OSP trooper out of Newport Area Command who was off duty when the crash occurred.
Cayden Fitch was pronounced dead at the scene. His father was transported by ambulance to Salem Hospital with serious injuries.