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Stranded driver on roadside struck in hit-and-run: CHP
(KRON) — The California Highway Patrol is asking for the public’s help to locate a driver who fled after hitting a stranded motorist on the roadside. The incident occurred Sunday at 11:30 p.m. in Hayward on southbound I-880 near the I-238 southbound exit. According to CHP, the victim was standing on the right shoulder outside their disabled vehicle when an unknown vehicle struck them. The driver did not stop and left the scene.
Read MoreOvernight rear-end crash on Kansas Highway involves 3 cars, 8 people
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - On Sunday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office reported a three-car crash on Kansas Highway 10 that involved eight people. According to Douglas County, the crash happened around 1:53 a.m. on Aug. 18 on westbound K-10 Highway, near mile marker 20. The incident started when a 20-year-old Shawnee man in a Chrysler 300 rear-ended a Lexus IS, driven by a 37-year-old man with a 19-year-old passenger.
Read MoreCrash in Martin County kills 3 people from Lubbock
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Three people from Lubbock are dead after a Friday morning crash in Martin County. DPS says the crash happened around 4:40 a.m. on State Highway 349 and mile marker 300. DPS tells us the driver of a Kenworth truck with trailer had a blowout on the road. The driver of truck pulled onto the shoulder of the highway to get the tire repaired. Due to the shoulder sloping down and the risk of the vehicle rolling, the driver could not move entirely off the roadway.
Read More4 dead, including two 9-year-old girls, after semi hits stopped vehicles in northern Minnesota construction zone
FLOODWOOD, Minn. — Four people, including two 9-year-old girls, are dead after a semi hit three cars and another semi in a construction zone in northern Minnesota Wednesday afternoon. According to the state patrol, a semi was going at “highway speeds” and hit the other vehicles, which were stopped due to construction. The crash happened around 3 p.m. on Highway 2 near Nelson Road in Floodwood. Four people in a Honda Pilot were killed — 9-year-olds Hope Mae Oakgrove and Charlotte White, 66-year-old Bonnie Mae Dow and 65-year-old Vincent Louis Dow.
Read MoreCar causes chain-reaction crash involving 6 vehicles near Warsaw
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – A chain-reaction crash involving six vehicles on State Road 15 sent two of the drivers to the hospital Tuesday afternoon. A 28-year-old was driving a car on SR 15 south of Warsaw when for an unknown reason he crossed the center line, hitting two trucks, according to a release from the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department. The driver of an oncoming semi tried to avoid the crash but hit one of the trucks.
Read MoreOne man is dead after being hit while entering a parked vehicle on the shoulder of Highway 101
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – An adult man has died after being sideswiped by a passing vehicle while he was trying to get into a vehicle parked on the shoulder of Highway 101 east of Gaviota Thursday. Despite the best efforts by bystanders, including a cardiologist and two electrical linemen with an automated external defibrillator (AED) device, the man was pronounced dead at the scene shared the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
Read MoreRoadside assistance reminder in wake of motorist’s death on I-44
ST. LOUIS – The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s investigation continues after a man was struck and killed after changing a tire along the shoulder of westbound Interstate 44 in downtown St. Louis near the Dome at America’s Center. A spokesperson for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said the man had just finished changing the tire on his gray Chevrolet HHR around 7 p.m. Wednesday. A white GMC Terrain was parked behind the victim’s HHR.
Read MorePerson working on disabled car on side of highway hit, killed in Allegan County
ALLEGAN COUNTY, Mich. — A person is dead and another is seriously injured after a crash in Allegan County early Wednesday morning, the Sheriff’s Office says. It happened around 6:11 a.m. on southbound US-131 near the 48 mile marker in Gun Plain Township. Police say a pickup truck heading southbound hit an SUV that was disabled on the shoulder of the road. Two people were outside the car working on it when the truck hit them.
Read MoreUpdate | Tri-Cities woman hit by car while changing a tire along I-182 in Richland
A Kennewick woman was seriously injured after being hit by a car while trying to change a tire along the side of a Tri-Cities highway on Wednesday. Washington State Patrol Trooper Chris Thorson told the Tri-City Herald that two cars were pulled over along the Pasco-bound lanes of Interstate 182 in Richland near the Columbia River bridge when a third car smashed into them. The first car, a Hyundai passenger car, pulled over with a flat tire and the driver of a Kia SUV had stopped to help just before 1 p.
Read MoreDetroit man killed after striking unrelated crash, rolling over and getting trapped inside car on Lodge Freeway
(CBS DETROIT) - A 33-year-old Detroit man was killed in a rollover crash on the Lodge Freeway Monday night after striking a vehicle that was partially stopped in the left lane of traffic due to an unrelated crash, state police said. At 9:55 p.m., the Detroit Regional Communications Center was alerted of a rollover crash on the northbound Lodge Freeway near Glendale Avenue. When troopers arrived, they found the 33-year-old man trapped inside the rolled-over vehicle.
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