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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.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014Area:
Tulsa, OKA fatal crash occurred Wednesday night in Creek County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.
Arlie Clint Cates, 49, of Bristow, died from injuries suffered in a crash about 11:45 p.m. on State Highway 66 just west of W 271 Street, the patrol reports.
Cates died in a Sapulpa hospital after the crash.
Passenger Davied Van Orsdol, 49, of Bristow, was taken to a Tulsa hospital where he was treated for a back injury. Seat belts were not in use.
Cates was driving east on SH 66 when he drove off the roadway. Cates and Orsdol were ejected.
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Sunday, March 2, 2014Area:
Chicago, ILA Merrillville man has been injured after his snowmobile struck a hard three-foot pile of snow.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says the accident occurred about 6 p.m. Sunday in Griffith, about 25 miles southeast of Chicago.
Conservation Officer Shawn Brown says 39-year-old John Budack was riding a snowmobile on a local bicycle trail when the vehicle struck a hard mound of snow, knocking him off.
Budack was taken to a hospital in Munster and was being treated for a possible broken leg and broken wrists.
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Friday, February 28, 2014Area:
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FLTarpon Springs Police have identified two people killed in a crash Saturday on U.S. 19.
Dive teams members with the Tarpon Springs PD found one vehicle in this retention pond.
Nicholas Ray Osborn, 37, and Marco S. Valez, 39, of Clearwater died when the 1998 Mercedes SLK 230 they were in lost control in a northbound lane and crashed into a pond just before 3 a.m.
The crash happened at the intersection of U.S. 19 and Martin Luther King Jr. Investigators think the Mercedes may have been racing a white car that witnesses saw leaving the area.