June 2009


General27 Jun 2009 02:30 pm

Hilton student involved in accident dies - Democrat and Chronicle
Rachael Girard, the 17-year-old Hilton High School senior who was involved in a car crash five days ago, has died. Strong Memorial Hospital officials confirmed her death this morning. Girard was thrown from a car when it crashed into a tree on West

General25 Jun 2009 06:30 pm

Two injured in accident at Western and Lakeview - Stillwater News Press
Two people were injured, including one person who was taken to the hospital by ambulance, this morning after a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Western and Lakeview roads. The driver of a Pontiac traveling westbound on Lakeview turned

2 Mass. teens charged in deadly accident - Union-News & Sunday Republican
(AP) LYNN, Mass. - Two more teenagers are facing charges in connection with a deadly crash in Saugus last month that took the life of a 67-year-old woman out walking her dog. A Lynn District Court clerk on Wednesday issued complaints against

Route 78 accident delays delivery of Warren Reporter - Bridgeton News
TIM WYNKOOP/EXPRESS-TIMES Rescue personnel work to free the driver of a truck following a two-truck wreck on Route 78 West bound at mile marker 14.7 in Union Township Wednesday night. It’s not often that the Warren Reporter makes the news it reports

Opelika police deserve thanks for handling accident admirably - Opelika-Auburn News
On June 10, I was involved in a collision with another vehicle at the intersection of 10th Street and 2nd Avenue. While no one was seriously injured, several people stopped to assist. I am thankful to each of you that did. I was especially impressed

Two killed in one vehicle accident - Daily News
A vehicle was discovered early this morning in the Wild Rice River along Richland Road 4 near Abercrombie. The vehicle had been driving eastbound when it went off the road, hit two trees and went into the river. Authorities say the crash happened

Opelika man Troy Bryan killed in car accident - Ledger-Enquirer
Troy Waylon Bryan, 38, of Opelika, Ala., was killed in a car accident that happened at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was pronounced dead at 8 p.m. by Deputy Coroner Charlotte Patterson. Bryan was driving a 1999 Mazda 626. When police arrived at Andrews

Brockton man s condition improving following Monday pedestrian - Enterprise
An 83-year-old Brockton man remained in fair condition at a Boston hospital Wednesday after he was injured in a pedestrian accident on North Montello Street earlier this week. Adilino Monteiro s condition has been upgraded from critical to fair

Boy dies in electrocution accident - Park Rapids Enterprise
An 8-year-old boy from Browerville died after being electrocuted Monday. The Todd County Sheriff s Office responded at 8:34 p.m. Monday to a rural Browerville farm, where deputies found Wendel Lamor Fox and began CPR until the Browerville Ambulance

General24 Jun 2009 01:30 am

U.S. subways use cars without crash standards, rely on old trains like - Canada East
WASHINGTON - Millions of passengers in cities across the U.S. ride old subway cars like the ones that crumpled in the deadly crash in the U.S. capital. The largest transit systems depend on such cars for more than one-third of their fleets, despite

General23 Jun 2009 05:31 am

Rush-hour train crash kills six, injures dozens in D.C. - Boston Globe
WASHINGTON - At least six people were killed and more than 70 were injured when a Metro subway train slammed into another on the outskirts of the city during the afternoon rush hour yesterday, emergency officials said. It looks to be the worst

Woman Killed In Route 40 Accident In Menallen Twp. - KDKA
A Brownsville woman was killed in an accident late Saturday night. It happened at just before midnight in Menallen Township at Route 40 and Searights Crossroads. Police say 30-year old Carmen Higinbotham was struck by a vehicle along Route 40

Oakland Car Wreck Lawyer Mary Alexander explains automobile accident - Caymanmama.com
Oakland California (CaymanMama.com) Every day, millions of people take to the roads to get to work, home or school. Because we have grown to depend on vehicles so much, it is inevitable that accidents will happen and people will get injured. In

Accident victim identified - KTEN.com
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Police say a Norman man who was killed in a motorcycle accident over the weekend has been identified. Officers say 26-year-old Clifford John Marshall was headed north on a street in northwest Norman early Saturday when he lost

St. Paul police ID driver of ambulance in fatal accident - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Heat advisory issued for metro area on Tuesday St. Paul woman killed by ambulance identified 3 Minnesotans who died on the water are identified MN trade meeting set on new US posture toward Cuba St. Paul woman dies after being struck by ambulance

Police say man tries to leave one accident, causes two others - Modesto Bee
A man who caused three car accidents in Turlock was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and hit-and-run causing injuries. At about 2:15 p.m. on Sunday, Isidro Miranda, 47, rear-ended a Toyota Camry on Lander Avenue near Linwood Street, according

CN critics say accident raises safety issues - Kane County Chronicle
CHICAGO (AP) Opponents of increasing freight-train traffic through residential areas say a deadly derailment in northern Illinois illustrates the need to boost safety on U.S. rail networks. Several tank cars on the Canadian National Railway train

General22 Jun 2009 09:30 am

Oak Forest accident: Man struck, killed by Metra train - Chicago Tribune
Metra officials on Sunday were investigating the death of a 31-year-old New Lenox man who was killed after a Metra train struck him as he sat near the tracks in Oak Forest . The man was struck about 11:55 p.m. Saturday as the Rock Island 231 train

Alleged beating probed in Lawrence - Eagle-Tribune
LAWRENCE Police were still investigating last night whether an alleged beating victim received his injuries in a car accident early yesterday instead of from a vicious attack, as reported by witnesses. “We know his brother had an accident right

UPDATE: Bicyclist killed in Elmira hit-and-run accident - Sun and Press
Elmira police say they have identified the vehicle involved in an early morning hit-and-run that killed a man riding a bicycle. The victim, whose name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was riding a bike around 1 a.m. when the

One Dead in Ness County Accident - KWCH.com
One person is dead and three others are hurt after an accident Sunday afternoon in Ness County. The accident happened just before 4:00 p.m. on K-4 just west of Utica. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports that 31-year-old Ricardo Martinez of Kinsley was

Man dies in motorcycle accident - My West Texas
A 46-year-old Midland man is dead after he lost control of his motorcycle near the Loop 250 and Thomason Drive exit, police said Sunday. David Singer, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene when officers arrived around 11:25 p.m. Saturday. A passer-by

Lonsdale man was victim of auger accident - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The man who died Saturday after falling into an auger was identified on Sunday as Samuel R. Young, 49, of Lonsdale, Minn. Young was killed shortly after noon on Saturday while working at Country Stone and Soil in Eureka Township, according to the

8 perish in road accident - Rwanda New Times
Eight people died after a vehicle they were travelling in along Musanze Highway, rolled several times into a river on Saturday night. According to police the speeding Toyota Land Cruiser lost control as it approached the Mukungwa River bridge and

Interstate 81 accident sends one person to hospital - WSLS
The Lexington Fire Department was called to the scene of an accident on Interstate 81 southbound near mile marker 193 around 10 a.m. Sunday. When crews arrived they found an SUV had gone over the embankment, flipped over and landed about 200 feet

General21 Jun 2009 12:30 pm

Boy seriously injured in accident - Evening Star
POLICE are investigating after a young boy was knocked down by a car in Ipswich. The boy - believed to be 12 years old - was taken to hospital with serious injuries after the accident last night in Landseer Road. A police spokeswoman said the

General19 Jun 2009 03:30 pm

Ohio man killed in northwestern Pa. drilling accident - Vindicator
SAEGERTOWN, Pa. (AP) Federal and state officials are investigating the workplace death of an Ohio man who s skull was crushed in a well-drilling accident in northwestern Pennsylvania. Crawford County Coroner Patrick McHenry says 37-year-old

General18 Jun 2009 06:30 pm

Police: Man fled scene of accident - Raleigh News & Observer
DURHAM — Durham police are looking for a man they say was involved in a hit and run car accident. Police have obtained warrants for Cornelius Lee Baldwin, 26, of 1404-B Liberty Street in Durham for felony hit and run resulting in personal injury

Shock of grandmother’s death restores sight of teenage girl blinded in - Daily Mail
A blind teenage windsurfer has had her sight restored - by the trauma of her grandmother’s death. Charly Sissons went blind from shock after a windsurfing accident last summer triggered a repressed memory of her being bullied and held underwater when

Driver in Weetown accident charged - Fergus Falls Daily Journal
A Fergus Falls man has been charged with criminal vehicular injury following an accident that injured a motorcyclist. John Michael Ackerman, 26, was arrested Sunday after the pickup he was driving hit a juvenile motorcyclist northeast of Weetown

Traffic-signal cameras being installed at 10 accident-prone Memphis - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Armed with lessons that can only come from 35 years of driving in Memphis, Thomas Long knows better than to step on the gas as soon as a traffic light turns green at an intersection. “You’ve got to count one, two, three, and then you go because

Bangor Man Killed In Motorcycle Accident - WCSH
BANGOR (NEWS CENTER) — A Bangor man was killed Wednesday night when his motorcycle hit a car on Griffin Road. Bangor Police say 41-year-old Kondwa Chalila was riding a Suzuki motorcycle westbound on Griffin Road around 7:40 p.m. when he passed two

Accident on Route 78 in Berkeley Heights causes traffic delays - Newark Star-Ledger
New Jersey Department of Transportation Route 78 in Berkeley Heights, site of accident causing four mile delay An accident on Route 78 eastbound by Exit 41 in Berkeley Heights has closed the right lane and caused a four mile delay this morning

Teen Killed in Hit And Run Accident - WFTV
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A car full of street racers hit and killed a teenager and just kept going off John Young Parkway. 18-year-old Giovanni Perez’s clothes sat on the pavement, as state troopers collected clues to find the person who hit him

TRAFFIC REPORT: Accident on U.S. 92 East - The Ledger
A vehicle crash was reportedly shortly after noon Thursday on U.S. 92 East at Fish Hatchery Road in Lakeland, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The road was not blocked. There was no report of injuries. Polk County EMS reported transporting victims of

One dead, two injured in Belleview accident - Star-Banner
BELLEVIEW - One person was killed and two others were injured Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers, a 2005 Dodge van driven by Randy A. Dodge, 44, was heading east on County Road 25 and hit a 2000 GMC box

Weather blamed for motorcycle accident - KWWL
WAUCOMA (KWWL) - Bad weather is to blame for an early morning motorcycle accident in Fayette County. It happened around 5:45 am Thursday on County Road V68, 4 miles south of Waucoma. Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies say 56 yr old John J. Baldwin of

General17 Jun 2009 02:30 am

Teen cyclist seriously injured in accident near uptown - News 14
enable JavaScript. Learn how . install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now . Then come back here and refresh the page. CHARLOTTE — A teenager riding his bike was hit by a car Tuesday near uptown Charlotte. The accident happened on East Fourth Street

Lodi woman passing by accident resuscitates electrocuted man - Newark Star-Ledger
HACKENSACK — A Lodi woman performed CPR to resuscitate a worker who suffered a severe electric shock this morning in northern New Jersey. Keren Day said Carlos Gamez, whose heart had stopped, resumed breathing after about 90 seconds of chest

Family wants harsher punishment for driver involved in fatal accident - ksl.com
SALT LAKE CITY — Family members of an 85-year-old woman who was killed in a car accident say they are willing to forgive the other driver, but they also want him to be held accountable. Yvonne Atwood was going to her husband’s gravesite when she was

Green has leg amputated - New Haven Register
Champions Tour golfer Ken Green s lower right leg was amputated Monday following a recreational vehicle accident last week in which his brother and girlfriend died. He was under sedation and in good condition after the three-hour operation at

Man pleads guilty in fatal car accident - Brazoria Facts
ANGLETON When Adrienne Long and Stacey Dayton visit their father for Father s Day this weekend, they won t go to his home and feel his arms around their neck. I have to go to the cemetery to see mine, Long said. But the man who pleaded

Patrol Report Clarifies Lobelia Road Accident - pilot.com
The driver of a red Pontiac flattened by a military vehicle in a traffic accident last week near Vass was not at fault, according to a State Highway Patrol report. Latisha Jenea Cardona, 23, of Vass, was driving west in the Pontiac on Lobelia Road

Plano 12-year-old dies in boating accident - Allen American
A 12-year-old Plano boy died after being run over by a boat while attending a Boy Scout troop outing on Lake Lavon Saturday. Gary Collins, a game warden with Texas Parks and Wildlife, said John Potanka and another boy were being towed behind a boat

Rollover accident reported on Perkins Road - News-Gazette
URBANA Emergency personnel have been sent to the scene of a vehicle crash in the 2300 block of East Perkins Road in Urbana. Responders from the Edge-Scott and Carroll fire departments were assisting a motorist reportedly trapped in a vehicle

Man comes forward in Warren fatal accident - Detroit Free Press
A Sterling Heights man has come forward in the death of a Warren man who was run over Wednesday on Dequindre north of 9 Mile in Warren, Warren police said today. The unidentified man, 21, has not been charged in the accident involving Daniel Paul

General08 Jun 2009 07:30 pm

Worker killed in accident at NV mine - Las Vegas Sun
Newmont Mining Corp. says a veteran employee was killed in an accident at a northern Nevada gold mine. The company says 57-year-old Steve Halverson of Spring Creek died Saturday when a flatbed pickup truck backed over him at the North Lantern Pit in

Westmoreland coroner identifies Smithton teen who died in motorcycle - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
The Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office has identified the 14-year-old boy killed in an off-road motorcycle accident Sunday night in South Huntingdon Township. Adam F. Gemmell of Menden Road, Smithton, was riding the off-road motorcycle at 107 Wohl

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