Preventable Tragedies
Police: Woman killed in I-83 crash after losing control of car
BALTIMORE (WBFF) Baltimore City police say a woman was killed in a crash along I-83 Sunday after losing control of her vehicle. Police were called to the scene near Cold Spring Lane around 8:30 am. Detectives believe the 32-year-old woman was driving southbound when she lost control of her vehicle and struck another vehicle that was resting on the shoulder. Police say that vehicle was unoccupied and was there as a result of an earlier crash.
Read More30-year-old woman killed after running in front of tractor-trailer
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A 30-year-old woman is dead after troopers said she was hit by a tractor-trailer truck. Troopers said the tractor-trailer was driving east on I-4 when the woman ran out in front of the truck.Authorities said the woman from Kissimmee was pronounced dead at the scene. According to officials, the woman had previously stabbed a man in a car on the shoulder of I-4.Orange County Sheriff’s deputies said the woman and a 27-year-old man were driving east on I-4 when the two go into an argument.
Read More4-Car Pile Up in Macoupin, Leaves 1 Dead, 2 Hospitalized From Thursday
A series of three crashes were related in a multiple vehicle pileup in Macoupin County early Thursday morning resulted in a fatality and two men critically injured. Initial Illinois State Police reports only included information on the second crash Thursday, but all details were released today. The first crash occurred at 4:37AM Thursday near the intersection of Illinois Route 267 and Illinois Route 111 just north of Medora. Preliminary ISP reports indicate that a Red 2005 GMC truck driven by 39 year old Benjamin P.
Read MoreHenry Young sadly dies after being hit by two vehicles
Young was struck by semi-truck and SUV on Interstate 90; Crash under investigation BLANDFORD, MA, (September 25, 2020) - Henry Young was tragically struck and killed by an SUV on Route 90 in Blandford. Young, 49, was traveling in a 2008 Lexus driven by a 36-year-old Becket woman that broke down. When the car pulled over, Young exited the vehicle and was hit by a 2013 Ford Explorer driven by a 26-year-old Brockton woman.
Read MoreMan Jumps Out Of Car On Mass Pike, Hit And Killed By SUV And Truck
BLANDFORD (CBS) – A man was killed in a horrific incident on the Massachusetts Turnpike in western Massachusetts late Friday night. A Lexus pulled over in the breakdown lane on the eastbound side of the Pike in Blandford around 10 p.m. and a passenger jumped out of the car and ran onto the highway, State Police said.The man, later identified as 49-year-old Harry Young of Pittsfield, was hit by a Ford Explorer SUV and then a Kenworth tractor trailer truck.
Read MoreCeilo Romero Rojas sadly dies after being hit by vehicle
Rojas, 19, struck outside of disabled Toyota on the San Diego (405) Freeway LOS ANGELES, CA, (September 24, 2020) - Ceilo Romero Rojas was tragically struck and killed by a vehicle on the southbound Ceilo Romero Rojas in southwest Los Angeles on Thursday, September 24th. According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), Rojas was riding in a 2005 Toyota at about 3:35 a.m. that became disabled in the Nos. 1 and 2 lanes following a crash.
Read MoreVermont man hit by two motorists, killed on Rt. 7 after leaving disabled vehicle
Vermont State Police said a 20-year-old Manchester man was killed late Wednesday in Shaftsbury after he left his his car in an embankment, walked onto Route 7 and was hit twice by passing motorists. Responding troopers found Frederic Wu in the middle of the road around 9:40 p.m. His car, a 2001 Saab, was about 100 feet down an embankment. Police said the car was totaled.Troopers spoke to two people who said they had apparently hit Wu after he walked out into Route 7 traffic.
Read MoreMan Killed In Holmdel On Garden State Parkway
A Belmar man was struck and killed by a car that entered the right shoulder of the parkway, police said. HOLMDEL, NJ - A Belmar man standing outside a car stopped on the shoulder of the Garden State Parkway was struck and killed by a vehicle near mile marker 115.9, authorities said. John Carroll, 60, was parked on the right shoulder of the southbound lanes near Holmdel Township at approximately 10 p.
Read MoreCar rear-ends parked semi on I-70; 2 killed
HANCOCK COUNTY — A Virginia man and his mother were killed Saturday morning when the car he was driving struck a semi-trailer truck illegally parked on the shoulder of an Interstate 70 exit ramp. The crash occurred shortly after 7 a.m. Sept. 19 near the westbound rest stop off the interstate east of Greenfield. Captain Robert Harris with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department told the Daily Reporter in an email that a Freightliner semi driven by Abdirisak Rashid Dekow, 35, Logan, Utah, was parked on the north side shoulder of the exit ramp to the rest park to rest.
Read MoreOne dead following fatal collision near Sahuarita
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - On September 19, 2020, at approximately 8:36 a.m., officers with the Sahuarita Police Department responded to a report of vehicle collision on Nogales Highway just south of Sahuarita Road. Investigators say a black Mercedes was traveling northbound on Nogales Highway when it left the roadway and rear-ended a Jeep that was parked on the shoulder of Nogales Highway. The driver of the Mercedes, 67-year-old Gary Mark, passed away from his injuries sustained in the collision on September 21, 2020 at a hospital in Tucson.
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