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Monday, March 24, 2014Area:
Houston, TXA street racing crash on Tuesday in Sunnyside killed one person and injured several others, police said.
Two cars were apparently racing about 2 p.m. in the 9100 block of southbound Scott when one of the drivers lost control and struck a tree, authorities said.
Police said one of the people in a Pontiac Grand Prix was thrown from the car and died.
At least five others were taken to Ben Taub General Hospital and Memorial Hermann Hospital.
Their conditions weren't known later Tuesday.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014Area:
Columbus, GAThe driver of a vehicle thrown from an interstate overpass in Opelika Friday morning has died, Opelika police confirm. Benjamin Rice, 32, of Lanett, was not wearing his seatbelt as he drove to his job at Auburn University, information from Opelika police and the county coroner suggests.
Around 7:50a ct, Rice was driving southbound on Interstate 85 when his 2004 Ford F-150 flipped near the highway's overpass with South Long Street. The vehicle came to rest on the bridge's guardrail.
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Sunday, March 16, 2014Area:
Indianapolis, INOne man is dead after a crash in Logansport involving a moped and a parked car Monday night.
Logansport Police Assistant Chief Bryan Hillis said a moped hit the rear of a parked car, near the intersection of 17th Street and Erie Avenue, at approximately 6:40 p.m. Monday.
A witness behind the moped advised authorities, that he was traveling straight and then appeared to speed up and veer off striking the rear of the parked car.
Hillis said the moped driver was ejected from the seat. He said it is unclear at this time if he was pronounced dead at the scene or at the hospital.
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Sunday, March 16, 2014Area:
Detroit, MI16-year-old boy was killed and two other people were injured after the stolen car they were in hit a pole during a police chase early Monday morning on Detroit’s east side, according to Detroit police.
The crash came after a reported carjacking at 1:55 a.m. in the area of Van Dyke and Outer Drive. A police patrol saw the 1994 Dodge Duster shortly afterward, and a pursuit ensued, Sgt. Michael Woody with Detroit Police Department said.
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Saturday, March 15, 2014A Massachusetts man has been injured in a snowmobile accident in New Hampshire.
Fish and Game officers say 49-year-old Eric Mueller of Wales, Mass., lost control of the machine while going over a piece of uneven terrain at the Owl’s nest Golf Course in Campton on Sunday afternoon and was ejected.
Mueller was taken to a hospital with injuries to his torso. His condition wasn’t immediately known.
Fish and Game officer say it appears that operator inattention was a contributing factor in the accident.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014Milford and Pleasant Dale communities are stunned after a rollover crash nearby kills a minor and injures two others.
The Seward County Sheriff's Office say 14-year-old Trevyn Michael Roth of Milford died at the scene after being ejected from the vehicle.
Officials say the rollover happened at 7 PM Thursday near 175th and Denton Road.
The other two victims are also minors.
One had to be flown to Bryan West.
The other was transported by ambulance to a hospital.
Officials are unsure whether or not the teens were wearing their seatbelts. The investigation continues.
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Monday, March 10, 2014Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA motorcyclist struck a pothole along a winter-worn stretch of a Minneapolis interstate and was thrown to his death, authorities said Wednesday.
Anand Baskaran, 30, of the Long Island community of East Northport, N.Y., hit the pothole along eastbound Interstate 394 near Theodore Wirth Parkway about 9:50 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the State Patrol. Baskaran was wearing a helmet.
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Saturday, March 8, 2014Area:
Portland-Auburn, MEA Franklin, Mass., woman was injured in a snowmobile crash Sunday afternoon in Milan.
Samantha Carneiro, 21, was operating a rented snowmobile when she went off into the soft snow around a sharp corner and crashed into some trees, officials from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said.
Carneiro was thrown from the machine and suffered a leg injury.
Rescue personnel treated Carneiro at the scene of the accident and transported her from the trail to a waiting ambulance that took her to Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin.
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Saturday, March 8, 2014Area:
South Bend-Elkhart, INA man was hurt Sunday when the snowmobile he was riding on crashed and he was thrown from the vehicle. It happened around 6 a.m. on the eastern shoreline of Magician Lake in Silver Creek Township, northwest of Dowagiac, according to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office.
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Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA 29-year-old man was killed Saturday in a rollover crash that shut down lanes of Interstate 57 on the city’s South Side.
The man, driving in a 2000 Ford Explorer, was heading northbound on I-57 near 99th Street around 1:30 a.m. “at a high rate of speed” when he lost control, according to Illinois State Police.
The veered right and struck the right side guard rail and rolled over, police said.
The driver was ejected from the SUV and sustained fatal injuries. Police said he was not wearing a seatbelt.