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Friday, December 6, 2013Area:
Orange County, CASpeed and weather appeared to play a role in a crash that left five teenage girls injured -- two of them critically-- in Orange County late Saturday, officials said. Authorities responded just before 11 p.m. when a 2006 Mercury C230 hit a curb, went up an embankment and struck a tree on Melinda Road in Rancho Santa Margarita, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and Orange County Fire Authority. Preliminary investigation shows that slick weather and high speed may have contributed to the crash, officials said.
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Sunday, November 24, 2013Area:
Phoenix, AZAuthorities in south Phoenix say two people died in a single-car wreck early Sunday morning.
A young couple in their mid-20s died in a rollover crash near Laveen Sunday morning.
A Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman said a little after 4 a.m. the driver of a white Lexus in the northbound lanes of 51st Avenue lost control and rolled the car several times. A man and a woman, both in their 20's, died at the scene.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013Area:
Raleigh-Durham, NCThree men were killed Saturday night when their car slammed into a tree in Willow Spring in Johnston County, about 6 miles east of Angier.
State troopers said Douglas Ray Baldwin, 46, of Wild Jasmine Court in Willow Spring, was driving west at a high speed when he ran off Dupree Road and struck a tree just before 10 p.m.
Witnesses said they heard a boom just before the crash and then saw the car flip before impact. The car split, they said, and glass was embedded in the tree more than 12 feet high.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013Area:
Spokane, WASix people were injured in the Monday night chain-reaction crash started by a car driven by a 15-year-old boy in Stevens County.
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Monday, June 20, 2011Area:
Philadelphia, PAOn June 20, 2011, at around 3:30 a.m. EDT, Ryan Dunn and Zachary Hartwell, a production assistant on Jackass Number Two, were killed when Dunn's Porsche 911 GT3 veered off the road and hit a tree in West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Dunn was 34 years old. Hours before the accident, Dunn had posted a photo to his Twitter account of himself and Hartwell drinking at a West Chester bar.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011Area:
Savannah, GAMotorcyclist loses case against the State of California for negligent road design
Accident Type:
Motorcycle AccidentIncident Date:
Wednesday, June 14, 1978Result Date:
Monday, May 23, 1983Monetary Result:
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Tehama County Superior Court
This accident happened on June 14, 1978, at 4:10 p.m., in clear weather, on SR 36, at the Mill Creek Bridge in Tehama County. Daniel Blake, a 22-year-old assistant manager at a pizza parlor, was driving over the bridge when he ran into the re-acclimate seal on the roadway. He claimed that it was after the motorcycle ran over the seal that he lost control of his motorcycle. An oncoming vehicle struck Blake's leg and the rear half of his motorcycle. He suffered serious injuries that resulted in the loss of his right leg above the knee, as well as fractures and lacerations. He was in the hospital for three and a half months.
Blake decided to sue the State of California for negligent road construction. He argued that there was not proper signage designating the appropriate speed crossing the bridge, and therefore he was driving too fast when he hit the seal on the pavement.
The state contended that Blake was negligent in operating his motorcycle at a high rate of speed, and that his excessive speed caused the crash and his injuries.
In the end, the state won its case, and Blake did not receive any award for his injuries.