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Sunday, December 29, 2013Area:
Washington, DCAn accident near Silver Spring's White Oak Shopping Center sent one Metro bus driver to the hospital with serious injuries.
According to Montgomery County Fire Department, crews responded to a Metro bus crash in the 11200 block of New Hampshire Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Monday.
The bus driver had exited the bus on New Hampshire Avenue when it began rolling and eventually pinned her against a retaining wall, according to officials.
Officials say the bus was not in service at the time. She was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries where she later died.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013Area:
Duluth, MN-Superior, WIAuthorities in Washburn County on Friday reported that numerous vehicles have broken through icy, snow-covered lakes, including one incident in which the driver died of exposure after walking away from the vehicle.
Edward Steinhardt, 30, of Naperville, Ill., was found Friday about a half mile south of Dilly Lake in Potato Creek, according to the Washburn County Sheriff's Office.
Steinhardt was an employee of a St. Louis business and had been reported missing along with a company truck Thursday.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013Area:
Los Angeles, CAA 19-year-old driver had to be rescued after his car went off a cliff and plunged into the ocean in Palos Verdes.
The incident happened around 2 a.m. Friday on the 1300 block of Paseo del Mar. Responding officers said they could hear someone calling for help, so rescue crews from the fire department were called to the scene.
The 19-year-old male victim was pulled from the car and airlifed to a hospital in Torrance with serious injuries.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013Area:
Chicago, ILCrisis counselors were at a northwest Indiana school Monday after a teacher was one of two people killed in a roadside accident over the weekend.
The other victim was a man who had tried to help that teacher just hours after he had gotten married.
Three cars ran the two over on the side of a road.
William Riley Knight was on the way home from his wedding reception when he stopped to help Linda Darlington, whose car had gone into a ditch just before 12 a.m. Sunday along 109th Avenue near Lane Street in Crown Point, Ind.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013Area:
Washington, DCTwo Loudoun County women are out of the hospital after a collision with a deer Thursday.
But there's a very unusual twist: one of the women was jogging when the deer hit her. A Loudoun County's Sheriff's Department spokesman says the accident happened around 6 p.m. on southbound Clairborne Parkway near the ramp to the Dulles Greenway.
A 71-year-old woman was driving an SUV when a deer stepped into the roadway and hit the front passenger side of her car.
The impact sent the deer airborne, and it hit a 27-year-old female jogger who was running on a path.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013Area:
New Orleans, LAAuthorities say an irate Chalmette man pepper sprayed another driver and hit him with a baseball bat during a road rage confrontation in Old Metairie. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office investigators aren't sure what happened to set off Gary Bergeron, 33.
It began with some sort of traffic encounter between Bergeron and the victim, an unidentified 49-year-old man, on Interstate 10 in New Orleans around noon on Wednesday (Dec. 4), according to Glen T. Boyd, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013Area:
New York, NYA paraglider pilot was killed after crashing through a frozen river in upstate New York Wednesday afternoon, state police say.
The pilot, 47-year-old Rupert Cebular, crashed while practicing touch-and-go maneuvers on the ice-covered Wallkill River near Soons Orchard in Orange County, police say. The man broke through the ice and lost control of the paraglider.
A second paraglider and workers nearby tried to pull Cebular from under the ice using a rope, but were unsuccessful. They eventually pulled his body from the river.
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Sunday, December 1, 2013Area:
Youngstown, OHState police are continuing their investigation of a fatal collision Saturday in New Wilmington Township, Mercer County, in which an International truck trailer struck the back of a horse-drawn Amish buggy, killing two of the buggy's passengers.
The victims, Mary Byler, 34, of New Wilmington and her 11-year-old daughter, whose name was being withheld, were pronounced dead at the scene by Mercer County Coroner who said they died of blunt force trauma.
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Sunday, November 17, 2013One person was injured and several vehicles were damaged in a rock throwing incident on I-90 near Ellensburg.
The Washington State Patrol is seeking information or witnesses to the incident, which occurred either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. The rocks were thrown from the side of the freeway at passing vehicles near milepost 108.