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Over 20 school students suffer minor injuries after their school bus leaves the roadway and crashes into a tree in Jonesville, South Carolina

Date: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Area: 
Greenville-Spartanburg, SC-Asheville, NC-Anderson, SC
An accident involving a school bus in Union County sent more than 20 students to the hospital with minor injuries, according to troopers and emergency responders. The accident happened at 7:27 a.m. at Whitlock Lake Road and Morris Farm Road near Jonesville, troopers said. Troopers said the 1988 Freightliner school bus was traveling south on Whitlock Lake Road, when it ran off the right side of road and hit a tree. Union County Emergency Services director Ronnie Robertson confirmed six students were taken to Wallace Thompson Hospital in Union.

29-year-old man killed when his SUV crashes at a high rate of speed on northbound I-57 in Chicago, Illniois

Date: 
Friday, March 7, 2014
Area: 
Chicago, IL
A 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.

One person dead, Miguel Arquimides Caseres, 45, facing charges after his car crosses center-line on snowy roadway and crashes head-on with another vehicle in Chatham County, North Carolina

Date: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Area: 
Raleigh-Durham, NC
A man faces misdemeanor charges after a passenger died in a head-on crash on a snowy Chatham County road Wednesday. Miguel Arquimides Caseres, 45, of Siler City, was charged following a crash around 1:15 p.m. on Silk Road near Romine Pike Road. Caseres was driving a 1996 Ford car on a snow-covered road when it crossed the center line and crashed into a 1999 Chevrolet, troopers said. The passenger in the Chevrolet died. The passenger's name hasn't been released pending notification of next-of-kin. Caseres also was charged with exceeding a safe speed.

Motorcyclist seriously injured after he rear-ends SUV at high-speed and tumbles down roadway on I-10 in Chandler, Arizona

Date: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Area: 
Phoenix, AZ
A motorcycle wreck on Interstate 10 at Queen Creek Road closed the westbound lanes of the freeway Wednesday morning, according to officials. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials worked alongside the Gila River Police Department to close the freeway at 8:30 a.m., said a DPS spokesman. The lanes were reopened about an hour and a half later, just before 10 a.m., according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. The motorcyclist was traveling faster than the speed of traffic on I-10 when he hit the back of an SUV and tumbled across the freeway, according to Garcia.

Adam Lincoln, 24, pleads guilty after crash that killed Sgt. Ryan Martin, 25, and injured Konrad Kryla, 26, on Hillside Drive in South Windsor, Connecticut

Date: 
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Area: 
Hartford & New Haven, CT
Adam Lincoln was driving on Hillside Drive at a high rate of speed when he lost control of the vehicle, it left the roadway, and crashed into a tree. One passenger died and another seriously injured. Lincoln's blood-alcohol level was found to be more than twice the legal limit. He was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle, second degree-assault, operating under the influence, traveling unreasonably fast and failure to maintain the proper lane.

Carl Smith, 34, arrested after police chase leads to head-on crash on Florence Avenue and Flower Street in Los Angeles, California

Date: 
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Area: 
Los Angeles, CA
A driver fleeing police Friday collided head-on with another car, bailed out on foot, then failed to scale a fence before throwing himself to the ground and surrendering to police. The suspect has been identified as 34-year-old Carl Smith. The pursuit started just before 3 p.m. near Florence Avenue and Flower Street in South Los Angeles, police said. The pursuit wound through streets for about 30 minutes. At one point the vehicle nearly hit a truck. The chase transitioned to the Century (105) Freeway, clocking speeds of 100, before going back onto the streets.

Kaitlyn Benson 17, killed and one other 17-year-old girl injured after high-speed crash into pole in Oakland, California

Date: 
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
A teenage girl died and another was injured in a high-speed wreck on an isolated street near the Port of Oakland early Friday morning, an area known for illegal street racing. Police officers responding to reports of an accident just after midnight on the 500 block of Maritime Street found that a vehicle had left the roadway and collided with a pole, officials said. The girls in the vehicle, both 17-year-olds from outside Oakland, were taken to a hospital, where the driver, who has been identified as Kaitlyn Benson, was later pronounced dead.

Travis Lee Holst, 23, and Brox Mitchell Browning, 20, killed in head-on crash on Guide Meridian in Bellingham, WA

Date: 
Monday, December 30, 2013
Area: 
Everett-Bellingham WA

A head-on crash on Guide Meridian left two young men dead early Tuesday, Dec. 31, according to the Washington State Patrol. Travis Lee Holst, 23, the driver of a green '03 Chevy Tahoe, had been driving northbound on Guide Meridian before he crossed the center line near Smith Road. The Tahoe crashed head-on into a silver '97 Honda Civic driven by Brox Mitchell Browning, 20, of Lynden, at 12:17 a.m. Browning died at the scene. 

Stacey-Izaac Holmes, 5, killed when car hits tree at high speed in Auburn, WA

Date: 
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA

A 5-year-old was critically injured after a car hit a tree overnight in Auburn. The 21-year-old male driver and an 8-year-old girl have non-life threatening injuries. The car was traveling 90 mph when it ran off the road around 2:30 a.m. and hit a tree on Auburn Way South. Emergency crews had to help free the man and boy after they were trapped in the car. Authorities say the girl managed to get out without help. Police are investigating to determine if alcohol was a factor in the accident.

Kevin W. Smith, 52, injured after rear-end crash on I-5 in Vancouver, Washington

Date: 
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Area: 
Portland, OR

Washington State Patrol says speed and intoxicants were factors in a crash on Interstate 5 Sunday night in Vancouver. Kevin W. Smith, 52, of Kelso was reportedly driving south on Interstate 5 about 6 p.m. in a 2002 Chrysler Sebring when he rear-ended a Honda Accord near Northeast 134th Street, according to state patrol. A juvenile passenger in the Accord was injured and transported to Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center. The passenger’s name was not released and her condition is unknown. Smith was also injured and taken to Legacy Salmon Creek.