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AP- In Okalahoma , Herbert Otis Waldon Jr., 51 died in a car accident.  Troopers reported that Walson was driving his pickup truck just before midnight last Friday night.  He ran of the side of the road and then tried to correct himself but instead swerved to the left side of the road where he then collided into a tree.

He was stuck for about an hour.  Rescue workers took him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead from his head and other injuries.

Police said he was not wearing a seatbelt.

In an unrelated accident, 59-year-old man died in an auto accident too.  Gary L. Boutwell was killed in a crash that happened Saturday morning after 9:00 am.  He was driving his car through an intersection where a second vehicle did not stop at a stop sign which caused him to crash into Boutwell.

Police say that Boutwell was hit head-on by the oncoming car.

Both the drivers part of this crash became trapped into their cars.  Boutwell was pronounced dead at the accident site as he sustained massive internal injuries.

Police added that Boutwell was wearing his seatbelt.

In a third unrelated rollover accident, Mercedes Gallardo, 3, was killed in an accident when the car she was riding in flipped over.

She died at the accident which was around 8:30 am Saturday morning.  Dena Gallardo, 35, was driving the car when she was unable to keep control of her car at a curve in the road.  She dropped to the right side of the road, hit and embankment, which caused her car to flip once.  Mercedes and the other two passengers, 7 and 6 were thrown out of the car.  The two older children were taken to the hospital and are in stable condition.

Police stated that no one in the car was wearing seatbelts.

After Halloween Spc. Joseph D. Binion, 23, was walking home when he was hit and killed by a truck in El Paso, Texas around 2:30 am.

Police reported that David Palacios was driving the blue Chevrolet Silverado truck that hit Binion.  After he hit the Chicago soldier, he fled from the scene.  Special traffic investigators caught up to Palacios and arrested him.  Police stated that Palacios was taken into custody and charged with intoxicated manslaughter and an accident causing personal injury or death.

The death of Binion hit the town harder since he was a soldier.  One person said that she thought “it’s terrible that a soldier, who can go across the country or halfway around the world, serves his country and comes home and is killed by some crazy driver not paying attention.”

Local officials warn that during holidays like Halloween both pedestrians and drivers have to be even more careful.  During the night of this accident, there were many children also crossing the street.  Some had dark clothing on too.

Local police reported that there has been a little increase in car accidents.  52 people have been killed in car accidents where last year at this same time there had been 46.

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It was a fatal truck accident that ended in a ball of fire. The tractor-trailer that caught in fire was carrying a load of batteries Sunday evening around 7:00pm.

The truck was being driven by a male. He was heading north on a Virginia state highway when he decided to speed up and pass some cars using the left lane.

Virginia State Police reported that the truck driver was in the left lane as he passed two vehicles.

Once he completed passing the two vehicles, he signaled that he was going to move back into the right lane. But instead, he went off the shoulder of the road and hit the guardrail. This caused his truck to go down an embankment where the truck caught on fire.

The truck’s fire spread to the trailer where the pile of batteries was located. Some of the batteries actually exploded from the exposure to the intense heat.

The truck driver was killed in the accident. He’s been described as a man in his 60’s but his name had not been released pending contact with his family.

The accident caused a back up for miles as the north lane of the highway was closed down. A hazardous material crew had to come out to clean up the accident site and all the remnants of the batteries.

It was around 4:30 pm last Friday night when a bicycle and truck were both heading south on an Indiana state road.  The truck ran off the road causing it to hit the read end of the bicycle.

County Deputy Coroner said that the bicycle rider was killed instantly.  The name of the rider was not released since officials are still contacting family.

Don W. Beville, 42, was driving the truck.  After he had hit the bicyclist he tried to leave the scene, but was stopped by local police.  The police discovered that this semi truck had been part of another crash and had left the scene of the crash.

Police reported that someone witnessed the driver of the Nissan truck drinking a beer when he was leaving the first crash.  Police were able to connect the two crashes since the victim of the first crash was able to write down the truck’s license plate number and submit it to local police.

After Beville was arrested, his blood alcohol level was measured at 0.30.  He did not sustain any injuries from either crash.  He has been charged with operating while Intoxicated causing a death, which is a Class B felony charge.

Police were called to the first accident around 9 pm last week.  This accident caused traffic to stop on the highway.  Just a half hour later, a semi truck approaching the accident didn’t slow down enough which caused him to crash into multiple vehicles.

This collision occurred just two miles south of the first crash.  The second crashed involved several vehicles, three of which were semi trucks and four were passenger vehicles.  One of the passenger vehicles was pulling a trailer.  Ten were taken to local hospitals by ambulance and helicopter with inuries.  A few of them are in critical condition.

Witnesses say that it was a chain reaction accident.  Considering how many cars were involved, the scene was quite calm after the crash.  Rescue workers had to free victims from their trapped cars.  One car was trapped underneath one of the semi trucks.

One of the semi trucks was from the Target store.  The back door of its trailer was ripped off but the trailer itself was empty.

Since there were so many victims and vehicles involved in the accident, there is an investigation still in progress.  Police have not released the names of any of the victims.