Preventable Tragedies
Car rear-ended early Monday after running out of gas on I-70
BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (WIBW) - A car was rear-ended late Sunday after it ran out of gas on Interstate 70 in Wyandotte County, officials said. The incident was reported at 11:10 p.m. Sunday on westbound Interstate 70 on the north edge of Bonner Springs. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2018 Chevrolet Trax was stopped on the roadway after it ran out of fuel and was struck from behind by
Read MoreMan charged with homicide after Thruway crash killed Central NY man on side of highway
Canajoharie, N.Y. – An Albany man was charged this week with criminally negligent homicide and lying to police after a fatal crash that killed a Central New York man on the Thruway last weekend. At around 11:50 a.m. on Jan. 4, David Bonaparte, 61, stopped on the shoulder of the Thruway near Canajoharie due to a brake issue and got out of his vehicle. Canajoharie is a small village between Utica and Albany.
Read MoreThree killed in multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 84 in Oregon
UNION COUNTY, Ore — A three-vehicle collision on Interstate 84 claimed the lives of two drivers and left another injured late Wednesday night, the Oregon State Police report. The crash occurred near milepost 279 in Union County, prompting a response from Oregon State Police. Authorities said the incident began when Robert Fred Kenyon, 60, of Nampa, Idaho, stopped his Mack commercial vehicle and trailer at a chain-up area to install chains due to adverse roadway conditions.
Read MoreTwo pedestrians hit in Somerset County while standing beside disabled vehicle
JEFFERSON TWP. ― A woman was driving her car west on Glades Pike at 5:20 p.m. Dec. 21 when she saw a disabled truck alongside the road. She slowed down, only to be slammed from behind and pushed into pedestrians 428 feet east of Kimmel Road, according to state police. Behind her, Reginia Bailey, 36, Somerset, driving a truck with two male teenage passengers, 15 and 17, had not slowed down and hit the back of her vehicle pushing it into the two pedestrians and the disabled truck, police said.
Read MoreDriver dies after being hit while standing by broken-down truck along Brigham City I-15 exit
BRIGHAM CITY — A driver died after being struck by a vehicle while standing outside his vehicle that had broken down near an I-15 exit Wednesday night. Emergency crews responded to a report of a crash along the 1100 South (U.S. 91) exit in Brigham City shortly after 7:30 p.m., according to Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Cam Roden. He said that a male driving a Dodge pickup truck had parked in a spot that partially blocked the right side of the exit lane after some sort of issue with his vehicle.
Read MoreUHP: Man killed in Brigham City; struck by passing car while standing outside disabled vehicle
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah, Jan. 8, 2025 (Gephardt Daily) — The Utah Highway Patrol says a man standing outside his disabled vehicle near I-15 in Brigham City was fatally injured Wednesday night after being struck by a passing car. UHP Lt. Cameron Roden told Gephardt Daily, the deadly incident happened about 8 p.m. “near the merge” onto I-15 from 1100 South. According to Roden, the lights on the motorist’s vehicle may not have been on when he was hit.
Read MoreDriver jumped from Southwest Freeway in chain-reaction crash that left 1 dead and several hurt
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – All southbound lanes of IH-69 Southwest Freeway at Kirby Drive were closed due to a deadly crash that reportedly involved a driver who jumped off the freeway on Wednesday morning. According to Houston TranStar, the crash was first reported at about 2:30 a.m. The freeway reopened three hours later at 5:40 a.m. Houston police are calling it a chain-reaction crash that started with a single vehicle.
Read MoreMan killed after stepping out of car on NYS Thruway, troopers say
Canajoharie, N.Y. — A pedestrian was killed by a passing car Friday morning on the New York State Thruway. David Bonaparte, of Rome, was driving west on Interstate 90 around 11:50 a.m. Friday when he pulled over and onto the northern shoulder of the highway in Canajoharie, the New York State Police said in a news release. Canajoharie is a small village in the Capital Region between Utica and Albany.
Read MoreOklahoma troopers share ‘graphic’ video of semi sideswiping disabled big rig while driver grabs water bottle
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) shared dash cam video of a semi truck sideswiping a disabled truck along the shoulder of the interstate as a reminder of what happens when you fail to pay attention to the road. The video was captured around 2:15 p.m. on January 6 on I-40 near Country Club Road in El Reno. OHP Trooper Kelby Peoples was driving right behind as a semi collided with a second truck disabled on the shoulder of I-40.
Read MorePedestrian dead after being hit by car near Spokane Valley
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — A man died after being hit by a car near the Spokane Valley on North Tschirley Road north of East Dalton Avenue on Sunday evening. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) says sheriff’s office deputies responded to the scene around 5:30 p.m. along with officers from the Spokane Valley Police Department and crews from the Spokane Valley Fire Department. SCSO says initial information indicates that the car was traveling north on Tschirley Road and was avoiding a separate car that was stopped on the east side of the roadway and protruding into the northbound lane.
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