Preventable Tragedies
Disabled Pickup Ends In Interstate Inferno
Having your truck break down on the interstate is never a good situation. Even if you’re able to get over onto the shoulder, there are plenty of incidents where vehicles parked off the actual road are still hit. But having your ride give up the ghost in a lane of traffic as people are coming up at 65-plus mph is far worse. Just such a situation unfolded on Interstate 35 near Forest Lake, Minnesota.
Read MoreGood Samaritan’s Car Hit Over And Over Again On 101 Freeway: Video
LOS ANGELES, CA — Authorities are investigating a hit-and-run pile-up that happened when a Good Samaritan came to the aid of a woman who had been thrown from her overturned vehicle on the Ventura (101) Freeway Friday morning. The harrowing series of crashes was caught on tape. It all started shortly after midnight on the southbound 101 near Hayvenhurst in Encino where a woman slammed into a center divider, causing her vehicle to overturn, said California Highway Patrol Officer Cody Sturges.
Read MoreNewtown police seek hit-and-run pickup truck driver who sideswiped Amazon delivery vehicle
NEWTOWN — Police are looking for the driver of a blue Chevrolet Silverado involved in a Wednesday evening hit-and-run on Route 302. The incident happened on Sugar Street around 7:05 p.m. July 24, when police say the pickup truck sideswiped an Amazon delivery truck that was parked on the shoulder of the roadway and fled the scene. The blue Chevrolet Silverado was traveling eastbound on Sugar Street at the time and likely sustained minor damage to its right side view mirror, according to Newtown police, who said there was no information provided about the operator or the vehicle’s license plates.
Read MoreMan killed after 2 semi-trucks collide on Highway 99 in Madera County
MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) – A man has died after two semi-trucks collided on a highway in Madera County on Thursday afternoon. It happened just after noon on Highway 99 North between Avenue 9 and 12 when traffic was heavy on the roadway. The force of the impact sent a blue pickup truck crashing down from the hauler. The CHP says the semi with the hauler attached had pulled over to the right shoulder of the 99 and got out of his vehicle.
Read MoreOne dead following hit-and-run crash on I-69 in northeast Fort Wayne
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - The Allen County Sheriff’s Department (ACSD) shares that a hit-and-run crash on northbound I-69 at Union Chapel Road left one person dead early Thursday morning. Around 3:20 a.m. Thursday, a public safety alert was sent out in reference to the crash investigation. Police confirmed that they were dispatched to northbound I-69 near the 319-mile marker around 2:30 a.m. after receiving reports of a body in the roadway.
Read MoreMan, 19, seriously injured in rear-end crash Wednesday on I-70 in Dickinson County
ABILENE, Kan. (WIBW) - One person was seriously injured in a rear-end crash early Wednesday on Intersate 70 in Dickinson County, authorities said. The crash was reported at 5:16 a.m. Wednesday on westbound I-70 about a mile and a half west of Fair Road. The location was about 4 miles west of Abilene. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze was stopped in the right lane when it was rear-ended by a 2023 International semitrailer.
Read More1 dead in Bishop Ford crash, Illinois State Police say; SB lanes closed
SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. (WLS) – A 44-year-old woman was struck and killed on the Bishop Ford Freeway Monday morning, Illinois State Police said. Police responded to the scene in the southbound lanes of the Bishop Ford at 159th Street at 2:23 a.m. Police said a driver from a disabled vehicle in the middle lane got out and was attempting to cross active traffic and was struck by a passing vehicle that remained on the scene.
Read MoreBronx hit-and-run driver strikes and kills man on Bruckner Expressway: cops
A hit-and-run driver in the Bronx struck and killed a 51-year-old man on the Bruckner Expressway early Sunday morning. Police say the unidentified man was found at about 5:20 a.m. on July 21 with severe traumatic injuries lying on the expressway’s northbound lanes, near Exit 8B into Pelham Bay Park, and was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS. Video posted on Citizen appears to show the man’s body, covered in a white sheet, in the highway’s shoulder lane.
Read MoreWoman with flat tire killed on highway after ambulance crashes into her car
HOOD RIVER COUNTY Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - An Oregon woman has died after an ambulance crashed into her car while she was on the side of the road. According to Oregon State Police, a 55-year-old woman was killed after the ambulance hit her vehicle on Interstate 84 near milepost 54 just after 1 a.m. Thursday. Investigators say an American Medical Response ambulance driven by 42-year-old Amanda Hancock was heading west on I-84 when it drifted out of the travel lane and hit a Chevrolet Camaro.
Read More‘Good Samaritan’ struck and killed helping stranded driver in Bartholomew County
BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY, Ind. — The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department is investigating after a good Samaritan was struck and killed Thursday afternoon south of Edinburgh. According to the BCSO, a car broke down on the side of U.S. 31, near West 800 North, around 1 p.m. July 18 when what police are calling a good Samaritan stopped to help the stranded driver. Deputies said another driver hit and killed the good Samaritan.
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