Preventable Tragedies
Driver escapes injury after lorry ploughs into back of broken-down van
A driver who broke down in Peterborough on Friday (August 5) escaped what could have been serious injuries after a skip lorry ploughed into the back of his van. The driver made sure they were out of their vehicle and behind the crash barrier as soon as it was safe to do so. An image released by Cambridgeshire Constabulary after the incident highlights the dangers of staying in a vehicle after breaking down.
Read MoreFour injured in 11 vehicle pile-up crash
Four people were hurt after a pile-up crash involving 10 passenger vehicles and a semi truck in Indiana on Sunday afternoon. The accident happened on August 7th on Interstate 69 near Anderson, Indiana. According to Fox 59 News, 10 cars were stopped on northbound I-69 between Rangeline Road and Markleville Road for a minor crash up ahead. An oncoming tractor trailer then failed to slow for the stopped traffic and struck multiple stopped cars, pushing them into a nearby median.
Read MoreQueens, NY – Good Samaritan Struck While Tending to Crash Victims on 103rd Ave
Queens, NY (August 07, 2022) – A 67-year-old woman was hit by a car on Sunday, August 7th while trying to check on the welfare of people who had just been involved in a car accident near her home in Queens. At about 12:20 a.m., the good Samaritan exited her home at 125-11 103rd Avenue in Richmond Hill to check on those involved in a collision. As she was in the roadway assisting victims, a 22-year-old male struck her with his car.
Read MoreCar strikes, kills woman on I-70 in Frederick
A woman was killed after getting out of her disabled car, which was damaged by falling debris from a bridge over Interstate 70 in Frederick, Maryland, early Saturday morning. The 25-year-old woman from Martinsburg, West Virginia, exited her car after it was one of several vehicles that were disabled in the roadway. Maryland State Police say that an unknown vehicle struck a bridge on MD 75 that’s over I-70 westbound. The impact caused concrete and metal from the bridge to fall onto I-70.
Read More2 women killed in deadly Foster City crash on Hwy 92
FOSTER CITY – Two women died in a crash Friday morning on westbound state Highway 92 in Foster City just west of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. The crash was reported shortly after 9:45 a.m. on the highway just east of Foster City Boulevard on the Peninsula side of the bridge. Three women in a Ford Fusion were traveling west and had just gotten off the bridge when the Ford veered across lanes of the highway and struck a big-rig that was parked on the right hand shoulder and then ended up in a ditch, CHP spokesman Officer Art Montiel said.
Read MoreGood Samaritan among 2 seriously injured after being hit on N.J. Turnpike following earlier crash
A teenaged Good Samaritan standing on the New Jersey Turnpike in Burlington County was among two people seriously injured early Friday after a tractor-trailer hit a stalled vehicle following an earlier crash, authorities said. The Good Samaritan, a 17-year-old from Scarsdale, New York, was on the northbound side assisting the driver of a Volkswagen Golf that became disabled in the center lane after a previous accident near mile post 42 in Mount Laurel at about 12:15 a.
Read MoreCar sitting in slow lane of I-5 near Westley hit by big rig. Tracy driver dead at scene
A Tracy man whose car was sitting in the slow lane of Interstate 5 near Westley when it was hit by a big rig early Thursday was found dead in the driver seat. The incident occurred during the 1 a.m. hour in the southbound lanes near the Ingram Creek Road exit, according to the California Highway Patrol. At 1:15 a.m., a passerby reported to CHP that a Lexus was sitting in the slow lane.
Read MoreHuman remains found in wrecked car believed to be of missing nurse who was last seen on her way to Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Human remains that were found in a wrecked car in Georgia are believed to be those of a nurse from South Carolina who was on her way to Birmingham last month but never made it, according to police. Shauna Brown, a nurse who worked at Prisma Baptist Health in Columbia, South Carolina, was last seen July 10 after she had left home to go to Samford University to do clinical work.
Read MoreJose Mayolo Hernandez, 1 Injured in Car Accident in Dallas, TX
Dallas, TX – July 3, 2022, Jose Mayolo Hernandez and another person were injured due to an accident where a car hit a disabled vehicle. Investigators reported that the crash took place at around 1:44 p.m. along Brookgreen Drive near Esperanza Road. In reports, authorities said that a pickup and a disabled car were stopped along eastbound Brookgreen. A man was outside the car changing its tire. While there, reports say a Ford F-250 driven by 56-year-old Jose Mayolo Hernandez somehow hit the parked pickup, also hitting the man next to the car.
Read MoreTruck crash closes interstate
Accident scene on I-269 near Malone Road on Wednesday, Aug. 3. (MDOTTraffic.com photo) A portion of I-269 in DeSoto County was shut down or restricted to one lane early Wednesday as a result of a crash between the semi-trailer truck and a disabled vehicle. According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the crash took place about 12:10 a.m. near the Malone Road exit. A 2009 Peterbilt truck driven by Christopher L. Terry, age 51 of Vega, Texas, collided with a disabled 2007 Buick vehicle driven by Savannah D.
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