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Crews recovered the body of a pilot along with his plane's fuselage Wednesday, days after the aircraft crashed into San Francisco Bay following a collision with another small plane that managed to land safely.
The Contra Costa coroner has identified the deceased pilot as 33-year-old David Everett Plumb of Sacramento.
A marine salvage company retrieved the single-engine plane in an operation that was shown live by at least two news outlets. The body of the pilot could be seen in the wreckage of the Cessna 210, which plunged into the water on Sunday.
A woman was killed in a fiery crash involving a large truck that shut down Business 85 south Thursday morning.
Courtney Ann Sanford, 32, of Clemmons, died at the scene of the crash around 8:30 a.m. near Baker Road. The truck driver wasn't injured.
Sanford's 2005 Toyota Corolla was going north on Bus. 85 when it crossed the median and hit a metal recycling truck heading southbound, police said. The truck ended up hitting a tree.
The car's flames were quickly extinguished, police said. No one else was in either vehicle.
New York alcohol entrepreneur Malcolm Lloyd, founder of the Double Cross vodka brand, was killed early Thursday morning in a high speed car crash near Miami Beach, police said.
Lloyd, 42, was a passenger in a Lamborghini that police say was traveling at more than 100 miles per hour at 2.50 a.m. local time when it hit a Chevrolet Suburban SUV that was stopped at a red light, according to Miami Beach police.
One person was killed and one injured Wednesday evening when a sailboat taking part in a race near Redwood City collided with a channel marker buoy, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.
The Coast Guard learned shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday evening that a 42-foot Catalina sailboat had collided with a marker buoy in a channel outside Redwood City, according to Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Mark Leahey.
The boat, which was involved in a race hosted by a local yacht club, had struck the buoy and become entangled, Leahey said.
One person died Wednesday morning in a one-vehicle crash which injured two others, including a Henderson resident, and shut down a portion of the Breathitt/Pennyrile parkway for several hours.
Cody W. Allen, 22, of Madisonville, the driver of the vehicle, was pronounced dead by the Hopkins County Coroner, according to the Kentucky State Police.
Injured in the collision were Amber A. Harrison, 20, Henderson, and Thomas W. Hawkins, 22, Hanson. Both were flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center. Their conditions were immediately unavailable.
More than eight hours after a woman drove her car into a swollen creek, crews were able to recover the car she was driving. At about 6 p.m. Monday, first responders pulled the woman's body, identified as Fawzia Jamshidi, 57, from the creek and transported her to the medical examiner's office. Hours later, the car Jamshidi was driving, a two-door Volkswagen sedan, was also pulled out of the muddy swift waters. Witnesses called 911 at about 12:30 p.m.
A motorcyclist was severely injured Tuesday evening in an accident on Richmond Avenue, just outside the NYPD's 121st Precinct stationhouse in Graniteville.
The motorcycle rider was transported to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, in critical condition, police said.
About a dozen other motorcyclists on the scene said they knew the victim but declined to comment on the accident. They appeared to gather some of the victim's belongings, including a helmet.