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Wednesday, May 27, 2015Area:
Evansville, INA teenager identified as Matthew Payne was driving a moped on Seventh Street when he somehow lost control and crashed into the curb, causing him to be thrown from the vehicle. He is being treated at the hospital for what has been described as a traumatic head injury, though neither Payne's exact age nor more details on his condition were available. He was not wearing a helmet during the crash.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015Chase Lewis Mills, 28, was killed and his female passenger minorly injured Tuesday night in an accident the Spartanburg County. The moped struck a van while turning from State 11 onto Ragan Street just before 7 p.m. Mills was killed, and his passenger was ejected and taken to Spartanburg Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. No one in the van was injured. Misting rain and fog may have been a factor. Neither person on the moped was wearing a helmet.
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Sunday, April 20, 2014Area:
Las Vegas, NVTwo people were hospitalized following an accident at Koval Lane near Harmon Avenue Monday morning.
The accident happened shortly after 2 a.m. Police say the victims, 27-year-old Chris Leichtweiss, who was driving, and 19-year-old Tiffany Nelson, who was a passenger, were riding their moped southbound on Koval, when a vehicle rear-ended them.
The impact sent the moped forward approximately 300 to 500 feet and caused Leichtweiss and Nelson to become separated from the bike.
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Thursday, April 10, 2014Area:
Salisbury, MDPolice say 46-year-old Donald Davis of Millsboro was riding a scooter southbound on Cooper Road. While turning at a sharp left curve, investigators say he crossed into the northbound lanes, lost control and was ejected from the scooter, crashing into a ditch.
Davis, who police say was not wearing a helmet, struck his head on the pavement and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Friday, February 14, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLAn unidentified motor scooter driver died Saturday night from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash in Sarasota County.
The incident occurred just after 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of Clark Rd. and Honore Ave. The scooter operator, who was not wearing a helmet, died at the scene.