Preventable Tragedies
2 men killed in crash on I-71 in Medina County: What we know
MEDINA COUNTY, Ohio — Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that happened on Thursday in Medina County. According to OSHP, the crash happened at around 10:12 p.m. on I-71 in Westfield Township. Officials believe that a Volvo commercial vehicle driving south on I-71 became disabled in the right lane. Moments later, a 2018 Chevrolet Trax traveling south on I-71 struck the Volvo. OSHP also noted that an unknown third vehicle, believed to be a maroon or red commercial vehicle, also struck the Volvo, but fled the scene.
Read More3 people dead after multi-vehicle crash on US 75 in Richardson
RICHARDSON – At least three people were killed in a major wreck on US 75 in Richardson, which left the highway shut down for hours Friday morning. The crash happened at 11:55 p.m. Thursday, according to Richardson police. As a result, all southbound lanes of US 75, also known as Central Expressway, were shut down near President George Bush Turnpike during the morning rush hour. The highway reopened just before 9 a.
Read MoreTwo killed after crashing into parked tractor-trailer on 101 Freeway
Two people died and two others were hospitalized after their sedan collided with a parked tractor-trailer on the 101 Freeway Thursday morning. The crash happened just before 5:25 a.m. on the southbound side of the highway near Wendy Drive. When the California Highway Patrol and Ventura County Fire Department arrived, they found the big rig parked on the right shoulder. Officers located the other wrecked vehicle, a 2016 Honda Accord, overturned on its roof about 500 feet from the semi.
Read MorePedestrian killed after being struck by semi near Route 7 off-ramp on I-95 in Newport, Delaware
NEWPORT, Del. (WPVI) – A pedestrian was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Delaware on Tuesday night. It happened near the off-ramp from I-95 northbound to Route 7 in Newport around 9 p.m. Police say a white Freightliner tractor-trailer was traveling in the right northbound lane of I-95, north of Churchmans Road. At the same time, a 49-year-old man from Newark was crossing the northound lanes of the interstate as he attempted to get to the east side of the roadway from his disabled vehicle that was on the left shoulder.
Read More2 Dead, Motorcycle Crashes into a Person Standing on Highway 118 in Simi Valley
SIMI VALLEY, CA (October 29, 2024) — Two people died after a motorcycle hit a person standing on Highway 118 near Rocky Peak Road. The California Highway Patrol responded to reports of an accident around 6:05 a.m. Sunday. Upon dispatch, CHP officers found a 33-year-old Canoga Park woman and a 54-year-old Simi Valley man with fatal injuries. According to a preliminary investigation, the woman crashed her vehicle into a guardrail for unknown reasons.
Read More70-year-old woman dead after being struck twice by cars in Westlake district
WESTLAKE DISTRICT, LOS ANGELES (KABC) – A 70-year-old woman is dead and an 83-year-old man hospitalized after two successive pedestrian crashes at the same spot in the Westlake district. The incident happened just before 6 a.m. Tuesday at Virgil Avenue and 3rd Street. Police say the woman was walking in the area when she was struck by a vehicle driven by an 83-year-old man that had just turned north on Virgil.
Read MoreDeer causes truck to hit sound barrier on Route 287
EDISON TOWNSHIP — Some scary moments in the early hours of Tuesday on Route 287 after a car hit a deer. State Police Sgt. Jeffrey Lebron said a Nissan Sentra was headed north near Exit 3 (New Durham Road) around 12:50 a.m. when the car hit a deer and became disabled in the center lane. Lebron said a tractor-trailer driven by Guido Appelgren Rodriguez, 69, of Byram, rear-ended the Nissan, sending the tractor-trailer into the right side of the highway and into a sound barrier.
Read MoreDriver airlifted after SUV slams into parked truck on I-80
A woman was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries after her SUV struck the rear of a truck parked on the shoulder of Interstate 80 in Morris County early Monday, police said. The 28-year-old woman was driving westbound around milepost 33.1 in Rockaway Township when her vehicle entered the right shoulder and hit the rear of the stopped and unoccupied box truck, according to a New Jersey State Police spokesman.
Read MoreI-5 South reopens after 45-car pileup caused miles-long backup in Kent, WA
SEATTLE - I-5 was fully shut down for hours in the Kent area Sunday when a 45-car pileup caused a miles-long backup. There were 18 tow trucks called in to help clear the crash sites on I-5 South just south of SR-516 in Kent on October 27. By mid-afternoon, the backup was five miles long and growing. Road crews had to bring in sand to clean up oil and gas spills from the many cars involved.
Read MoreWoman dies after collision with deer leads to rear-end crash in Dayton
DAYTON, Minn. (FOX 9) - A woman has died after she hit a deer and was rear-ended by another vehicle while stopped in the center lane of Interstate 94 in Dayton, Minnesota. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, around 5:30 a.m., a 60-year-old South Haven woman driving a Ford Escape was stopped in the center lane of I-94 in Dayton after hitting a deer. Then a 32-year-old Becker man driving a Mazda CX-5 rear-ended the woman’s stopped vehicle, law enforcement said.
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