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Meghan A. Callahan, 31, and 9-year-old girl killed in head-on collision between car and semi on Highway 99 near Canby, Oregon

Date: 
Monday, January 12, 2015
Area: 
Portland, OR

Just before 10:30 a.m., Meghan A. Callahan's 2000 Hyundai Accent sedan was southbound on Highway 99E when it crossed the center line and collided head-on with an oncoming semi. Callahan, 31, died at the scene, and a 9-year-old passenger was flown to Oregon Health Sciences University, where they died. The driver of the truck was not injured. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality responded to clean up a small diesel spill. We'll update this story with any new details.

An AC Transit bus crashes with stolen car and slams into a home, causing multiple injuries and gas leak at 18th Street and Burbeck Ave. in Richmond, California

Date: 
Friday, September 5, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
The bus was doing between 20-25 mph when it struck a house in Richmond around 5:30 p.m.Resident Ashley Ortega found her 3-month-old son sitting in his bouncy chair, in the living room, looking up at an AC Transit bus. The gas service line was severed and leaking. Meanwhile seven dazed and bloody passengers, including two children and a bus driver, were trying to escape the bus. Police say they arrested a juvenile male passenger, but his older brother Richard Contreras, the driver, got away on foot.

Kerri Chavez, 32, and her two children airlifted to hospital after a van collides with a tractor-trailer at Northlake and Hall boulevards in The Acreage, Florida

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Area: 
West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL

A mother, later identified as Kerri Chavez, 32, and her two young children and a semi driver were injured Thursday in a crash at Northlake and Hall boulevards in The Acreage.  The sheriff's office said a tractor-trailer was traveling west on Northlake Boulevard when a sport-utility vehicle, which was traveling north on Hall Boulevard, ran the stop sign at the intersection. Firefighters had to extricate the occupants from the vehicles using heavy extrication tools, said Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The mother and two children in the SUV were taken to St.