Preventable Tragedies
20-year-old with suspended learner’s permit responsible for deadly hit and run, police say
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A man driving with a suspended learner’s permit was arrested after a year-long investigation into a hit-and-run on Interstate 95. The victim, an Uber driver, was a good Samaritan who had stopped to help a disabled vehicle. According to Florida Highway Patrol investigators, it was Sebastian Michel Jean-Baptiste, now 21, who was behind the wheel of a 2019 Toyota Camry when Pierre Michel Fortin was struck at approximately 2:06 a.
Read MoreKSP investigating a crash where man was hit and killed on I-75
GRANT COUNTY, Ky. (FOX19) - Kentucky State Police say they are investigating a fatal crash that happened Friday night. Robert Fugate, 50, was identified by KSP as having been struck and killed by a car on the interstate around 11:30 p.m. Police say Fugate had been involved in a single-vehicle crash and was standing in the left lane 156-mile marker of I-75 in Williamstown. Two other vehicles then stopped to help Fugate, police say.
Read MoreWoman killed in hit-and-run after stopping to help crash victim on Hwy. 190; multiple drivers fled area
PORT ALLEN - A good Samaritan was struck and killed after she pulled over to help out another person involved in a crash overnight. State police said Theresa Matherne, 57, of Baton Rouge was fatally struck after she stopped to help a driver involved in a crash on US 190 near LA 415 around 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Investigators said Matherne was walking in an eastbound lane when she was hit by multiple vehicles.
Read More2 pedestrians killed while helping driver after crash on Arkansas highway
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Two people, including a Bald Knob man, died Wednesday after a truck hit them as they tried to help another driver on the side of a highway, according to Arkansas State Police. The crash happened around 12:30 p.m. on I-40 near Mulberry in Franklin County. State police say 59-year-old William Burrow of Bald Knob was one of four people who had gotten out of their vehicles to help a woman who had been involved in a previous crash.
Read MoreGood Samaritan struck and killed while helping others on I-30
LITTLE ROCK, Ark- An England man was killed Tuesday night while trying to assist with a disabled vehicle on Interstate 30 in Little Rock. Anthony Brian King, 37, was crushed between the disabled vehicle and his own when a third vehicle rammed into the back of the disabled vehicle. The disabled vehicle was partially in the roadway at the time of impact. The driver and passenger of the vehicle that initiated the accident were both injured and taken to a local hospital.
Read MoreSemi collision claims one life on I-40 in Oklahoma, traffic stalled for hours
ROLAND, Okla. — Update: All lanes at the scene of the crash have reopened. I-40 westbound lanes in eastern Oklahoma were blocked Wednesday morning following a fatal semi collision. The crash happened at mile marker 328 on I-40 near the Venture Aerodrome Airpark Number 2 in Roland, Okla. Traffic was at a standstill for miles as emergency crews directed drivers to the Dora exit nearby. Some drivers had to wait over six hours before they could move again.
Read MoreWoman killed in tractor-trailer crash, WB I-44 closed in Eureka
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — The westbound lanes of Interstate 44 in Eureka are closed after a fatal crash Tuesday morning. At around 11 a.m., there were two crashes along westbound I-44 near Route 109. The first crash involved a pick-up truck and a tractor-trailer truck. There were no injuries in that crash, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol. Two women who saw the crash got out of their car to the check on the people involved.
Read More1 dead, 1 injured after tractor-trailer hits car on shoulder of I-69 near Flint
CLAYTON TOWNSHIP, MI - One person is dead and another injured after an early morning crash on Interstate 69, just west of Flint. Troopers from the Michigan State Police Flint post responded to the fatal crash involving a tractor-trailer on eastbound I-69 near M-13 in Clayton Township around 3:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26, MSP Lt. Liz Rich said. A pickup truck had stopped on the side of the freeway after running out of gas.
Read MoreMan fatally shot on I-20, is hit by another car whose driver is then killed when struck by truck, police say
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A bizarre shooting incident Sunday night along a busy interstate left two people dead after a crash where another driver was then hit by a truck. Just after 10 p.m., the DeKalb County Police Department was called to an accident on I-20 eastbound, just west of Panola Road. Officers found a male victim suffering from a gunshot wound inside his vehicle.Following an initial investigation, police believe that after the victim was shot, his vehicle came to a stop in the middle lane.
Read MorePolice: Stranded driver hit and killed by semi in Genesee County
GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - One person is dead and another was badly hurt following an early morning crash on I-69 in western Genesee County on Monday. Clayton Township Police first got a call around 3 a.m. about a vehicle stopped in the eastbound lanes of I-69 near M-13. Shortly after, they got another call saying an accident happened in the same area. Investigators believe a pickup truck had stopped on the freeway and one of the occupants was outside when it was hit by a semi-truck, which jack-knifed and ran off the road.
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