Preventable Tragedies
9-year-old killed in Southfield Freeway crash • Dearborn man moons judge • 911 calls in Eastpointe
WEDNESDAY NEWS HIT - A 9-year-old boy died in a crash on the Southfield Freeway Tuesday night after the vehicle he was riding in was rear-ended by a box truck. He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt when the vehicle was struck. According to Michigan State Police, the fatal crash happened after the passenger vehicle that was struck was driving on the freeway with a blown-out tire. The vehicle was traveling southbound and was trying to make it to the Eight Mile exit on M-39 at speeds of around 10 mph.
Read MoreDad found dead in truck weeks after son reported him missing in Tennessee, police say
A dad who was reported missing by his son weeks ago was found dead in his truck, Tennessee police say. A body found inside a 2016 white Dodge Ram 1500 on Monday, Dec. 5, was identified as Jason Spencer, who had been missing for weeks, the Clarksville Police Department said in a Dec. 7 Facebook post. The 49-year-old was last seen leaving his son’s home in his truck on Nov. 9 at about 3 a.
Read MoreI-45 North Freeway reopens following deadly multi-vehicle pileup in Montgomery County, DPS says
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — The I-45 North Freeway is back open in both directions at State Highway 242 in Montgomery County following a series of events that led to a deadly multi-vehicle crash late Tuesday night, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. According to Houston Transtar, the freeway reopened at 4:35 a.m. Wednesday after all of the main lanes were closed since 11:18 p.m. Tuesday. The series of crashes covered half a mile.
Read MoreThree Southern University marching band members killed while changing tire in Louisiana
Three Southern University marching band members were killed when a semi-truck crashed into their car as they were changing a flat tire on the side of a Louisiana highway Tuesday night. The tragedy occurred after the students — Tyan Williams, 19, Dylan Young, 21 and Broderick Moore, 19 — stopped a 1999 Jeep Laredo on the shoulder of northbound I-49 in Natchitoches to fix the flat, according to Louisiana State Police.
Read MoreMan trapped in crushed vehicle ‘invisible’ from road found by Kittitas County deputy
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. — A man who was badly injured and trapped in his car, which had crashed in a spot that deputies said was invisible from the road, was rescued with the help of a tenacious Kittitas County deputy. Shortly after midnight on Sunday, Ellensburg police received a call from a woman who said her boyfriend started driving up from Yakima several hours earlier but had not arrived and was not answering his phone.
Read MoreTwo dead after Sacramento PD detective crashes into disabled vehicle on Interstate 5
An on-duty Sacramento Police Department detective crashed into a disabled pickup truck Tuesday morning on Interstate 5, killing two men standing near the truck, authorities said. The police vehicle, an unmarked Ford Fusion, was heading southbound on I-5 around 6:15 a.m. when it crashed into a white Dodge pickup truck stopped on the right shoulder just south of Sutterville Road, the California Highway Patrol’s South Sacramento office said in a news release.
Read MoreTwo hurt when Jetta strikes disabled car
IRETON—Two people received minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident about 6:25 a.m. Monday, Dec. 5, on Highway 10 about three miles northwest of Ireton. Fifteen-year-old Ellason Popken of Ireton was driving a 2012 Volkswagen Jetta west when she entered the eastbound lane to avoid another vehicle and struck a disabled 2004 Ford Mustang on the roadway, according to the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office. Thirty-one-year-old Timothy Wayne Clinger of Hawarden had been driving the Mustang and was standing outside of his disabled vehicle at the time it was struck.
Read MoreFatal Single-Vehicle Accident Occurs Near Auburn
A fatal single-vehicle accident occurred northeast of Auburn, which was reported on December 1 but was believed to have occurred the day before. The collision was reported to the California Highway Patrol (CHP) by a caller who spotted the vehicle but said they didn’t know if the car was possibly abandoned. Responders with the Placer County Fire Department arrived at the scene to discover a white Jeep, which they said came off Foresthill Road in the Todd Valley area and ended up on private property.
Read MoreMemphis man killed by semi-truck on I-40 in Arkansas
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man was killed in a crash involving a semi-truck in Arkansas on Sunday. It happened on I-40 in St. Francis County near Forrest City just after 3:30 p.m. The Arkansas Department of Public Safety said the man was standing outside of a GMC Sierra, trying to put gas in the disabled truck, when he was struck by a passing semi-truck. Authorities identified the man as 45-year-old Sircrease Brooks.
Read MoreTwo killed in Rockbridge County crashes
ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Two people died after crashes in Rockbridge County over the weekend, according to Virginia State Police. Ashley Mason Rhodes, 37 of Virginia Beach, died at a hospital after a crash late Sunday night. Police say she was driving a Nissan Versa southbound on Interstate 81, when she ran off the road, hit a guardrail and came to a stop blocking the southbound lanes. The Nissan was then hit by the driver of a Freightliner tractor-trailer also headed south.
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