Advanced Search
Date:
Tuesday, June 3, 2014Area:
Pittsburgh, PAA 6-year-old West Finley boy was killed Wednesday night when he was ejected from a Jeep on Interstate 70 in Buffalo Township, police said.
Dominic Rush was a passenger in a Jeep that lost control just east of the Taylorstown exit in Washington County at approximately 7:30 p.m., police said. The driver lost control, left the passing lane and traveled 342 feet in the median before the car rolled over on its roof.
Dominic was ejected and pinned under the Jeep. Witnesses lifted the Jeep and removed the boy, police said.
The driver was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital by a helicopter.
Date:
Friday, April 25, 2014Four people were injured, one seriously, Saturday morning in a head-on collision on state Highway 12 caused by an allegedly drunk driver, Santa Rosa police said Saturday.
The collision occurred just after 10:30 a.m. on Highway 12 at Melita Road, when an eastbound Ford Mustang crossed the center divider and struck a westbound Nissan Sentra head-on, according to police.
The Sentra overturned and landed in the westbound lane with people trapped inside.
Date:
Wednesday, April 23, 2014Area:
Orange County, CAAt least 12 people were hurt Thursday when a school bus with children on board crashed and became lodged between two trees at an Anaheim golf course, according to the California Highway Patrol. The Orange Unified School District bus crashed near the Anaheim Hills Golf Course just before 3:40 p.m., officials said. Aerial video showed the bus appearing to be bent down the middle where it was leaning against a tree. The bus driver had to be pulled from the wreckage. Three people, including the bus driver, were in critical condition.
Date:
Tuesday, April 22, 2014Area:
Shreveport, LAShreveport police are investigating a crash that sent two pedestrians to the hospital Wednesday afternoon.
Just before 2 p.m. Wednesday, Shreveport police were called to the 1600 block of Kings Highway after a reported vehicle crash involving two pedestrians.
Janette Johnson, 55, had been struck and pinned beneath a vehicle traveling eastbound along the 1600 block of Kings Highway. Johnson, who was not responsive following the crash, was rushed to University Health Medical Center where she remains in critical condition.
Date:
Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
Austin, TXEleven people were injured after a five-vehicle collision on North Lamar Boulevard at 39 1/2 Street around 3:30 Saturday afternoon.
Several EMS crews responded to the rollover accident. The first reports indicated at least one patient was trapped inside a vehicle.
Additional paramedics responded to 39th Street and Medical Parkway for a report of another patient involved in the accident.
Date:
Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTThe Utah Highway Patrol says a roll over crash happened on Interstate-15 near Parowan Friday afternoon.
A southbound vehicle blew a rear tire and it rolled off the highway. The vehicle came to rest on it's side.
The 36-year-old male driver was uninjured in the crash, but his wife was pinned in the Ford Expedition and she had to be freed by the fire department.
The woman sustained some moderate injuries in the crash, according to a UHP press release.
Three children were also in the car and they were treated and released from a local hospital in Cedar City.
Date:
Wednesday, February 26, 2014Area:
Indianapolis, INEmergency personnel were on the scene of a crash Thursday morning where two children were struck by a school bus, police dispatchers said.
Police say a Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation school bus was involved in the crash in the 2500 block of West Chaucer Drive around 7:37 a.m. Police said two Taylorsville Elementary students had been hit.
The crash happened near Taylorsville, just south of where Interstate 65 and US 31 cross .
Date:
Tuesday, February 25, 2014Area:
Louisville, KYA trooper discovered that a 2001 four-door Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was traveling east near 568 East Crothersville Road when it suddenly crossed into the eastbound lane, hitting a tree on the north side of the road. It then flipped into the ditch. A passerby discovered the crash when he got out of his vehicle to move the tree that had been struck by the pickup truck. Sgt. Jerry Goodin with ISP said the passerby heard children yelling for help, so he walked to the edge of the roadway and saw the overturned truck.
Date:
Wednesday, January 29, 2014Area:
Boston, MAA 14-year-old girl is expected to survive after being run over and pinned by a car in Waltham on Thursday.
Police say an 18-year-old woman driver was pulling out of a parking lot of the Waltham Raquet Ball Club shortly after 3 p.m. when her car struck the 14-year-old girl along with an 18-year-old man.
The 14-year-old victim, who has only been identified as a student at Waltham High School, was dragged and pinned under the car.
An arriving police officer was able to grab a floor jack from Boston Muffler, Brake & Automotive, which is nearby.
Date:
Tuesday, December 31, 2013A mother has been charged with driving under the influence after her two young children were killed in a car crash, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
Troopers said Melissa Patton, 32, is charged with two counts of felony driving under the influence and driving under suspension.
According to troopers, Patton was driving a car at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday on Wells Highway when the car traveled off the road, hit a church sign and overturned.