Preventable Tragedies
NJ Turnpike, Parkway crashes Saturday night leave two men dead
It was a deadly Saturday night on two New Jersey highways as two men were killed in separate crashes, one of them involving a hit and run driver, according to police. On the New Jersey Turnpike in Secaucus, 33-year-old Jose Peralta was found lying in the highway around 11:50 p.m., according to State Police spokesman Trooper Alejandro Goez. Goez said the East Newark man had been changing a tire on his car when he was struck by another vehicle that did not stop.
Read MoreWoman, child killed in crash involving tractor-trailer on I-95
A Pennsylvania woman and child are dead after a crash in Sussex County early Wednesday morning. State police were called to the crash on Interstate 95 at mile marker 25 around 4:20 a.m. Troopers on scene determined a sedan and a tractor-trailer were involved. Investigators say the driver of the sedan experienced mechanical problems and stopped in the right lane of travel without turning on the hazards. While stopped, a tractor-trailer hit the vehicle from behind, pushing it onto the shoulder.
Read MoreGood Samaritan killed while helping teen in broken-down car
A 57-year-old man died after stopping in Suffolk County to help a teen in a broken-down SUV, police said Sunday. Cops said the 18-year-old man was driving his 1998 Nissan Pathfinder west on Motor Parkway, between Hoffman Lane and Veterans Memorial Highway, around 6 p.m. Saturday when the vehicle broke down in the road. The 57-year-old Bay Shore man, who police identified as Federico Oviedo, pulled up behind the SUV in his 2003 Toyota minivan to help the teen, according to cops.
Read MoreGood Samaritans critically injured by suspected drunk driver
CYPRESS, Texas — Three Good Samaritans who stopped to help at a crash scene were badly injured when a suspected drunk driver plowed right into them. “He has injuries in his stomach, his intestines,” said Ramirez. “He has a broken arm” Harris County Sheriff’s deputies said Ramirez and others stopped to help after spotting a car that had been in a wreck near Barker Cypress and Keith Harrow Roads in Cypress.
Read More2 critically injured when pickup plows into good Samaritans helping stranded driver
HOUSTON – One woman was critically injured early Monday when a pickup plowed into a group of good Samaritans who had stopped to try and help a what they thought was a stranded driver in northwest Harris County. The crash was reported about 12:45 a.m. on Barker Cypress Road near Coventry Park Drive. According to Harris County deputies, three drivers stopped on the side of the road when they saw a damaged car on the side of the road.
Read More4-Year-Old Boy Killed When Stalled Minivan Struck
4-year-old boy was killed Friday night when his family’s stalled vehicle was hit from behind, Euless police say. Police said a mother and her four children were in a Chrysler Pacifica in the left express lane of the 800 block of West Airport Freeway when an SUV struck them. Police think the family was hit when traffic, which had slowed, started up again while their vehicle stalled.
Read MoreAfter crash, man leaves car and gets hit while walking
Delaware State Police are investigating a fatal collision that happened after another crash early this morning, Jan. 26, on Route 1 between Townsend and Odessa. Esteban Pantoja-Gordillo, 34, of Marydel, was traveling south on Route 1 north of Fieldsboro Road when his car left the road and struck a guardrail in the center median. The car traveled back across southbound Route 1 to the right shoulder. Pantoja-Gordillo exited his car and began walking south on Route 1 in the right lane, police said.
Read MoreMan who stopped to help motorist killed by another driver on Long Island
ISLANDIA, N.Y. (AP) — A man who had stopped to help another driver was killed when they were hit by another oncoming car, Suffolk County police said. Authorities said the first vehicle, driven by an 18-year-old man, had become disabled on Motor Parkway near Veterans Memorial Highway around 6:20 p.m. Saturday. A 57-year-old man from Bay Shore, New York, stopped to help the driver, pulling up behind him. Suffolk County police said the men were walking behind the second man’s car to get some tools when they were hit by another car driven by a 22-year-old woman.
Read MoreOff-duty Martin County deputy hit in secondary crash in serious, stable condition
The off-duty Martin County sheriff’s deputy seriously injured in a secondary crash early Saturday morning has been identified as Shawn Green. Green was assisting the victim of a rollover crash around 1:20 a.m. Saturday — along the Martin Grade Scenic Highway (County Road 714) west of Southwest Allapatah Road (County Road 609) — when he was struck by another vehicle. Green had notified dispatch of the initial crash and a responding deputy found him laying in the roadway.
Read MoreElderly man reported missing from Fircrest found inside crashed car in ravine
A 75-year-old man reported missing from Fircrest was found Thursday morning after crashing his car into a ravine in Silverdale. A Silver Alert was put out Wednesday for James Boyle, who suffers from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. He was last seem about 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Fircrest Golf Club.
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