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Monday, November 25, 2013Area:
Salt Lake City, UTA woman escaped with non-life threatening injuries after being ejected during a rollover crash on Interstate 15 near the Point of the Mountain on Tuesday morning.
The Utah Highway Patrol stated that the woman, whose identity and age were not immediately released, was speeding southbound on I-15 at 8:51 a.m. when she reportedly sideswiped another car.
Her Ford Mustang then went out-of-control into the median and then crashed into a concrete barrier wall and rolled into the northbound lanes.
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Sunday, November 24, 2013Area:
Washington, DCSeven people were injured -- two of those suffering life-threatening injuries -- in a three-car crash on Branch Avenue at Allentown Road in Prince George's County Saturday night.
Most of the injured appeared to be in their teens or early 20s, a fire department spokesman tweeted. One victim was middle-aged.
Southbound Branch Avenue was closed during the rescue efforts, which included flying three of the injured to trauma centers. Many of the injured appeared to have been ejected from their vehicles.
There was no immediate information about the cause of the accident.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013Area:
Spokane, WAA 50-year-old man is in critical condition at a Spokane hospital after his car hit a wall under an overpass in Spokane Valley on Sunday night. Spokane County sheriff’s deputies suspect the man had been drinking. Deputies responded around 9 p.m. to the collision on Argonne Road just south of Trent Avenue. Witnesses said the man was driving south when his car jumped the center median and hit the wall underneath the train overpass on the east side of the road. The man was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown partially out of the front windshield.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013Area:
Philadelphia, PAA man was killed after police say he was ejected from a vehicle that slammed into a SEPTA station in South Philadelphia.
Police say the 54-year-old man was speeding eastbound on Oregon Avenue around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, made a left turn onto Broad Street and then lost control of his vehicle.
The man’s vehicle went over the median and smashed into the Oregon SEPTA Station, ejecting him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators say the crash caused heavy damage to the car but minimum damage to the building. No one else was inside the car at the time and no one else was hurt.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013A teenager involved in a wreck in southeastern Illinois late Saturday night has been pronounced dead. Four others had already died in the incident.
According to the Hamilton County Sherriff, six people were inside a Chevy Trailblazer when it lost control and flipped several times in McLeansboro, Ill. at 10:24 p.m. Five people were ejected from the vehicle when it flipped, with one person trapped inside wearing a seatbelt.
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Friday, November 22, 2013Authorities are investigating the death of a 21-year-old Dauphin County man who was ejected from his vehicle following a crash on Route 43 in Union Saturday.
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Garrick Lackey of Middlestown. A spokesman said the fatal accident happened at 8:14 p.m. The man died at 9:35 p.m. at Jefferson Regional Medical Center.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013Area:
Denver, COA 57-year-old man from Empire died early Tuesday morning when his truck rolled on the shoulder of Interstate 70 and burst into flames, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
The accident occurred just before 1 a.m. at mile marker 86, which is about 30 miles west of Glenwood Springs and five miles west of Rifle.
The truck appears to have swerved for an unknown reason, driven off the right side of the highway, rolled and burst into flames according to the CSP. Both the vehicle and driver, who was ejected from the truck during the accident, were burned in the fire.
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Monday, November 18, 2013Area:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MNA brother driving himself and three siblings in his Milaca family to school north of the Twin Cities pulled his minivan into the path of a semitrailer truck less than a mile from their destination, leaving his 13-year-old sister dead in a broadside collision, authorities said.
The crash occurred about 7:55 a.m. Tuesday at the T-intersection of Hwy. 23 and 127th Avenue, just west of Milaca, according to the State Patrol.
Killed was Katrina E. Maetzold, 13, the patrol said. No one in the van was wearing seat belts, the patrol added.
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Monday, November 18, 2013Area:
Seattle-Tacoma, WATwo people were injured Tuesday morning when a dump truck and minivan collided off state Route 18 and rolled into a ditch. The incident, which occurred at 6:20 a.m., caused hours of back-ups in the Issaquah area while the scene was cleaned up. Neither driver involved was wearing a seat belt. The truck, driven by a 23-year-old woman from Wasilla, Alaska, was traveling west on state Route 18 exiting to Issaquah Hobard Road. The minivan, driven by a 26-year-old Pacific man, was traveling west on Issaquah Hobard Road approaching the highway.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013Area:
Salt Lake City, UTA 26-year-old Utah man has been killed in a single-vehicle rollover in Idaho.
The Idaho State Patrol says Chet Atkinson of Weston died in the crash on Highway 36 near Preston about 6:40 p.m. Sunday.
Troopers say he was headed east in a Dodge pickup truck when he drifted off the south side of the highway near mile marker 132.
Investigators say he apparently over-corrected before he crashed through a guard rail and rolled down an embankment.
Atkinson was not wearing a seat belt. He was ejected from the truck and died at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.