Preventable Tragedies
High school football player has leg amputated after being hit by car while rescuing mother
ATLANTA (WXIA) – A high school football player in Georgia sacrificed his dreams to protect the one he loves the most – his mom. De’Lon Jackson long dreamed of taking his football talents to the NFL, but that changed forever in June when the 15-year-old offensive lineman got a call from his mom as he wrapped up football practice in metro Atlanta. His mother was turning into the school to pick him up when she was involved in a crash.
Read MoreWinston-Salem woman struck by car, killed in Kannapolis
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — A deadly crash involving a Winston-Salem woman shut down part of a highway in Kannapolis on Friday morning. According to our Charlotte sister station, WCNC, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said the accident happened when the driver, 27-year-old Arlexia Taylor of Winston Salem, stopped her 2014 Kia Optima on the side of the road. When she got out of the car she was hit by a 2017 Chevrolet truck.
Read More18-year-old injured while changing tire in Meridian Township
MERIDIAN TWP. — A teenager was seriously injured Monday night when he attempted to change a tire on a disabled vehicle that was then struck by another vehicle on Marsh Road, according to township police. Police said in a release they were dispatched to a “vehicle vs pedestrian crash” on Marsh Road, north of Towner Road, at 11:16 p.m. An 18-year-old boy had been “changing a tire on a disabled vehicle in the roadway when his vehicle was struck by a motorist traveling north.
Read MorePileup snags Tri-State Tollway in southwest Chicago suburbs
ALSIP, Ill. (CBS) – The Tri-State Tollway in Alsip was snagged by a multi-vehicle pileup resulting from three different crashes Monday evening. Illinois State Police said at 5:43 p.m., three separate crashes happened near the same area and time on the northbound Tri-State (I-294) just northwest of the Cicero Avenue exit in Alsip. More than a dozen vehicles were involved—including nine that state police described as “commercial motor vehicles.” At least several of these were semi-trailer trucks, including a FedEx truck and an Amazon truck.
Read More82-Year-Old Charles Nelson Hit, Killed by Semi-Truck on 80 Freeway Berkeley, CA
BERKELEY, CA (August 5, 2024) — Charles Nelson was hit and killed by a semi-truck on the 80 Freeway near University Avenue. Berkeley Police and firefighters responded to reports of an accident around 3:40 a.m. Thursday. Upon responding, authorities learned that a semi-truck driver believed he had struck a pedestrian on the westbound Interstate 80. Traffic investigators later identified the pedestrian as Nelson, who had pulled over possibly to flag down help.
Read MorePedestrian fatally struck by vehicle in Eden Prairie
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Eden Prairie police are “actively investigating” the circumstances of an accident Saturday evening on a busy stretch of road that left a pedestrian dead. Officers were dispatched just before 8:45 p.m. to the intersection of Flying Cloud Drive and Anderson Lakes Parkway on reports of a motor vehicle accident. They arrived to find a woman, identified as 25-year-old Holly Chunmei Bergstrom, on the ground critically injured.
Read MoreCrash on 10 Freeway involving at least 5 vehicles hospitalizes 2 people
A multi-vehicle pileup on the 10 Freeway sent two people to the hospital early Saturday morning. Initial reports indicate that the collision occurred just after 3:15 a.m. on the eastbound span of the 10 near the Crenshaw Avenue exit in L.A.’s West Adams neighborhood. Video posted to the Citizen App shows one vehicle on its roof; two other mangled vehicles were seen on the other side of the road while first responders blocked off the area in the immediate aftermath of the collision.
Read MoreDriver struck and killed by motorcycle while trying to cross I-95 in Hollywood
A stranded driver was struck and killed by a motorcyclist while trying to cross Interstate 95 in Broward early Saturday in an incident that also left the motorcyclist in intensive care, officials said. The incident happened around 3 a.m. on southbound I-95 near Hollywood Boulevard. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 44-year-old man had his SUV stuck in the center lane because of a crash. The man tried to cross from the center to the shoulder when suddenly he was hit by a motorcycle.
Read MoreFamily left in shock after being hit by 2 semitrucks on way home from softball game
RADFORD, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) - A family of four in Virginia says they are lucky to be alive after they were involved in a crash with two semitrucks. Heather Ratcliffe and her three daughters were on the way home from a softball tournament in Connecticut last Saturday afternoon. When they got to the Abingdon area while traveling on Interstate 81, Ratcliffe says their lives flashed before their eyes. “I noticed a tractor-trailer coming southbound had lost control and was starting to come over into the median.
Read MoreMan crashes into concrete barrier, struck by SUV on Indiana Toll Road, state police say
HAMMOND, Ind. (WLS) – A deadly crash shut down the westbound lanes of I-90 in northwest Indiana on Thursday. The crash happened around 2:26 a.m. on the Indiana Toll Road between Clen Avenue and Kennedy Avenue. The driver of a grey 2004 Honda was driving westbound when it crashed into the center concrete barrier, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. After the crash the car ended up in the westbound lane, facing north and the driver got out of the car.
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