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Reckless Driver Hits Utility Pole and Multiple Cars

Early Saturday morning in Vermont, a driver hit a utility pole, shutting down power in several houses and then crashed into three different parked vehicles. He eventually got his truck stuck under a Winnebago recreational vehicle. The police have arrested someone of interest but have not charged him with a citation as yet. He [...]

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Drunk Driver Turns Himself in after Fatal Accident

Earlier this month Roger T. Linton, 41, was involved in  car accident that killed James J. Carey, 27.  Linton was charged with drunken driving and tuned himself in this past Wednesday.  When taken into custody, he was charged with criminal operating under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident. His bail was set to [...]

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Medical Transport Helicopter Crash Kills Four in Chicago

AP - The helicopter was taking a 1-year-old girl Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago for treatment when it crashed into a forest.  All four people on board were killed in the accident just before midnight Wednesday night.  The child was being transported because of epileptic seizures according to a spokeswoman from the children’s hospital.  The [...]

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Hasbro Nerf Gun Recalled after Injuries

Hasbro Inc., of Pawtucket, R.I has announced a recall of its “Nerf- N-Strike Recon Blasters” toy gun.  Children from the age of 4- to 12 -year-old have been injured by the toy. When a child tries to pull the trigger of the gun, sometimes their skin gets caught in the plunger.  There has been 46 reports [...]

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Suspected Drunk Driver Collides with Scooter

A 1994 Retro scooter driven by James J. Kaster, 22, was heading eastbound on a state route when a 2005 Nissan Titan driven by Thomas W. Howard, 27, hit him. Witnesses say that the Nissan truck was driving at a pretty high speed.  Howard took the inside lane and then switched back over to the outside [...]

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DUI Driver Charged for a Homicide of an Unborn Child

With a blood alcohol content level of .10, William Altier, 24, was driving through the city at night on August 13th. He was driving his Porsche 911 and “cutting people off with no safe distance,” one witness reported.  It was a rainy night and he was changing lanes while speeding.  Altier then crashed his Porsche [...]

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Remembering Four Killed in Bicycle Accidents

Cyclists in the Twin Cities plan to head out on their bicycles this Saturday to remember four bikers that were killed in four different terrible bicycle accidents.  The route will start where Virginia Heuer-Bower, 51  was killed.  The route will then go through the area that Jim Nisser, 65, was killed while he was biking [...]

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Bus Accident with Amish Church Group leaves 14 Injured

AP – A  bus that has seating for 13 was actually carrying 22 people.  It was an Amish church group that was on their way to Ohio from Michigan for a funeral. The bus driver tried to avoid a slow moving vehicle that was entering the highway.  The driver then veered to the left and ended [...]

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One Pedestrian Injured and the other Killed Construction Accident

In Germantown, Maryland there was a tragic construction accident killing one pedestrian and seriously injuring the other.  One of the roads, Clopper Road, was closed because of the construction that was being done on the road.  The road was closed to traffic vehicles and only open to construction vehicles. Those investigating the accident stated that it [...]

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Teenager Shot and then Crashes into Utility Pole

Local police were called to an intersection of Turner Road and Dunlap Circle in Alabama for a truck accident.  When the police arrived, they found Cory Shane, 19, limped over in the driver seat of a Chevy pickup truck.  Apparently Shane had been shot once in his body.  He had driven his truck into a [...]

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