Preventable Tragedies
Rescue Video: People walking in a dry creek bed find crashed vehicle with woman inside
MARIPOSA, Calif. (FOX26) — A woman who crashed down an embankment is lucky to be alive after people stumbled upon her wrecked vehicle Thursday morning. The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office says the woman crashed near the Merced River near the town of Bagby in Merced County. Her vehicle went down the embankment between 200 and 250 feet around 2:00 a.m. Later Thursday morning, a group doing research in a creek that runs into the Merced River came across a vehicle that had gone over the embankment with someone still inside.
Read MoreWoman fatally struck by car after ride breaks down in NYC
A woman was struck by at least one car and killed after her own ride broke down on a Bronx expressway early Wednesday, cops said. Shannon Campbell, 27, was riding as a passenger inside a vehicle when it became disabled and stopped within the painted median which separates the left lane from the center and right lanes of the eastbound Bruckner Expressway just before 3 a.m., authorities said. She got out of the broken-down car and walked into the right lane of the expressway, near Barretto Street, when she was struck by a 2019 Toyota Camry driven by a 61-year-old man, cops said.
Read MoreSUV driver in fatal I-95 crash was trying to pass another motorist, slammed into car on shoulder, police say
A 49-year-old Mechanicsville woman died Tuesday when her car that was stopped on the shoulder of Interstate 95 near the Lewistown Road exit was hit by a sport utility vehicle. Virginia State Police said in a statement the driver of a 2015 GMC Terrain SUV, Levi E. Braxton III, 70, of Saluda, was traveling northbound “at a high rate of speed” and drove onto the right shoulder to pass another motorist.
Read More1 dead when SUV rear-ends semi on I-469
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – One person was killed when a SUV rear-ended a semi on Interstate 469 early Monday morning. The crash happened at 1:21 a.m. in the southbound lanes at mile-marker 14.6, near the Tillman Road interchange. A semi-tractor trailer was broken down on the shoulder of the road and being worked on when an SUV veered onto the shoulder for unknown reasons, Allen County Sheriff’s spokesman Cpl. Adam Griffith said.
Read MoreHighway 16 crash sends one to hospital
Police responded to a pair of crashes Monday afternoon on Highway 16 near Reptile Gardens. This one was on the hill just north of Reptile Gardens on Highway 16. The South Dakota Highway Patrol says a Hyundai Santa Fe that had run out of gas was stopped in the driving lane when it was rear ended by a Suzuki motorcycle. The motorcycle ended up partially underneath the car.. The Patrol says the 20-year old man riding the motorcycle was taken to the hospital with serious non-life threatening injuries.
Read MoreMan dies after vehicle crashes into broken-down car on motorway near Rugby
A MOTORIST died on the M1 near Rugby this morning (Monday July 18) when he was hit by a car after his vehicle broke down. At around 3.20am, a silver Toyota Previa collided with the rear of a stationary grey Mercedes in lane one of the M1 southbound, between Junction 17 and Watford Gap Services. The driver of the Mercedes – a man in his 40s from Bedfordshire – was standing at the rear of the vehicle.
Read MoreThree killed on I-94 when their SUV is rear ended by a semi
(Moorhead, MN) – Authorities are identifying three Anoka County residents killed in a crash involving an S-U-V and two semis in Moorhead. The Minnesota State Patrol says on Friday afternoon the first semi stopped near a construction zone, the S-U-V stopped behind it and a second semi crashed into the rear of S-U-V, forcing it into the first semi-trailer. All three occupants of the S-U-V died in the crash. Troopers say 65-year-old Robert Correll of Ham Lake was driving and his passengers were 63-year-old Linda Correll and 89-year-old Shirley Gatzke from Blaine.
Read More1 taken to hospital after multi-vehicle crash involving stopped semi in Butler Twp.
BUTLER TOWNSHIP — One person was taken to the hospital after a multi-vehicle crash involving a semi on I-75 early Sunday morning in Butler Township. Vandalia Police dispatch confirmed the crash happened on I-75 southbound at Benchwood Road shortly before 2:30 a.m. Vandalia crews responded to assist Butler Fire and Harrison Twp. Fire/EMS crews on what turned out to be a multi-vehicle accident, according to a social media post from the Vandalia Division of Fire.
Read MoreMan struck, killed by oncoming car while refueling disabled vehicle on Chef Menteur
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A man is dead and a woman is in the hospital after a crash in New Orleans East Friday afternoon, according to the New Orleans Police Department. The accident happened in the 5400 block of Chef Menteur Hwy. The NOPD says just after 2:30, the man’s vehicle became disabled in the middle of the roadway. As he attempted to refuel, a woman driving in his direction, swerved trying to avoid a collision but instead hit both the man and his vehicle.
Read MoreWoman dies after La. deputy crashes into car stopped on highway
DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (WAFB) - Troopers with Louisiana State Police say they responded to a deadly two-vehicle crash on Friday, July 15 around 1 a.m. that claimed the life of a 33-year-old woman. According to LSP, they responded to a crash on LA 16 southbound, south of LA 64 in Livingston Parish. Louisiana State Police stated that during their investigation it was revealed that a fully marked Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy was responding to a call, traveling in the left lane heading southbound on LA 16 when the deputy hit the rear end of a 2004 Saturn Ion.
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