Mazda is issuing arecall that will affect more than 759,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. and Canada. The recall is due to a defect in the rear hatch supports that can potentially cause the hatch to fall on people and injure them. The recall includes certain 2012 through 2015 Mazda 5 vans, 2010…
A dangerous St. Louisschool bus stop location has parents upset. The desolate stretch of road surrounded by vacant buildings is a school bus stop for KIPP-Wisdom Academy. A parent says she is upset a dangerous and unsafe location has been chosen for her son to wait for a school bus. The bus stop is…
Chicago cab driver was charged withdrunk driving early Sunday in Riverside. A Riverside police observed the 60-year-old cab driver allegedly urinating on his car and appeared to be intoxicated, all while a passenger waited inside the vehicle. The incident happened in the 900 block of South Ferdinand Avenue. The cab driver was charged with…
Almost a dozen people were injured in a three-car crash in Chicago’s South Side early Tuesday. According to authorities, the multiple-vehicle crash occurred on the Dan Ryan Expressway around 12:35 a.m. The Illinois State Police report the cars collided in the northbound lanes of Interstate 94 near 93rd Street, causing a fiery scene. State…
A Missouri man is dead after a distracted drivingauto accident in Franklin County on Monday evening. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, the 32-year-old man was killed when a car hit the driver side of his vehicle. The force of the crashed caused the man to be ejected from his vehicle. The man was…
A Missouri mother of two was struck and killed in apedestrian accident in Richmond Heights on Friday. According to police, the 43-year-old woman was crossing Clayton Road from Highland Terrace at approximately 9 p.m. when she was struck and killed. The crash was heard by residents of a nearby apartment, and many people ran…
A five-vehiclecrash just outside of Kansas City has left two children dead and several others injured. According to police, the pileup occurred on Labor Day near Blue Springs, Missouri in Jackson County. The report says an SUV rear-ended a vehicle and struck a second car that was then pushed into two other vehicles. The…
A drunk driver struck and killed a 15-month-old boy in a horrificpedestrian accident last week in Los Angeles. According to officials, a 72-year-old woman struck a 15-year-old girl who was pushing a baby in a stroller near the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and 133th Street on Saturday afternoon. The Hawthorne Police Department said emergency…
A longtime employee with the Missouri Department of Transportation was killed in Franklin County during an April work-zoneaccident, and his killer has been charged. According to officials, a Hermann man is charged with second-degree felony assault on a highway worker as well as driving without insurance. The 55-year-old MoDot worker, of Rosebud, was struck…
Three people died Thursday night in two separatetraffic accidents in the Greater St. Louis area. The first accident occurred near O’Fallon Park on Interstate 70 in north St. Louis at approximately 10:30 p.m. According to the St. Louis Police Department, a GMC Yukon struck a center concrete median and overturned as it was attempting…