A southwest Missouri firefighter has died when the vehicle he was a passenger in struck a tree. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the 19-year-old boy was killed when a driver of a pickup truck lost control and ran off a road, struck a tree and overturned. The single-vehiclecrash happened Friday evening in Christian…
The four people killed in a horrifictruck accident in Chicano Park have been identified by the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. Officials say the victims were killed when a truck drove off the Coronado Bridge Saturday crashing into a festival crowd. Two of the victims were a Chandler, Arizona couple, a 52-year-old male…
The family of a 21-year-old California woman who was struck and killed by a suspecteddrunk driver heard his not-guilty plea to charges in court this week. The accused has been charged with several counts including Gross Vehicular Manslaughter, DUI Causing great bodily injury, as well as two counts of Felony Child Endangerment. According to…
A dangerous productrecall has been issued for almost 2.8 million units of craft paints due to the risk of exposure to harmful bacteria. The company, Sargent Art, issued the recall on October 4, 2016, for 13 types of arts and crafts tempera and finger paints. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the…
Chicago has had its seventh victim killed in abicycle accident this year. Authorities say a Chicago Fire Department lieutenant has become the seventh person to die in a bicycle accident on September 20. According to a fire department spokesman, the 56-year-old man was struck by a vehicle as he was biking home from his…
A construction worker was killed in a tragicwork zone accident this week in northwest Indiana. Authorities say the worker was struck and killed when an SUV drove into a construction area Wednesday morning on I-65. According to Indiana State Police, a 23-year-old female driver of a 2013 GMC was traveling northbound on I-65 when…
An Illinois woman was killed in a horrific hit-and-runtractor-trailer crash in northwest Indiana. According to the police report, at 10:45 a.m, a 30-year-old woman pulled her 2014 Chevrolet Suburban over on the shoulder of southbound I-65 near the Fair Oaks exit in Jasper County. Family members inside the car said she was checking a…
A Chicago man clung to the roof of a moving vehicle that was attempting to flee atraffic accident in Riverside on Tuesday. Witnesses say it looked like a scene straight out of an action movie. According to police, a southbound vehicle struck another vehicle driven by a 44-year-old man on the 3400 block of…
A fatalplane crash in East Hartford, Connecticut that killed a student pilot and injured the instructor has been deemed a result of an intentional act. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, it now appears the plane crash on Tuesday afternoon was caused by the student pilot after an argument with the instructor. An…
According to an AAA report, speeding was a major cause offatal crashes across the nation by teenage drivers in the past five years. On Wednesday, a report was released showing that teen drivers were involved in approximately 14,000 fatal crashes in the last five years. Out of those 14,000 fatal crashes, 4,200 were speeding-related….