Showing posts with label Car Accident. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Car Accident. Show all posts

Three badly hurt in crash outside Wiltshire golf club



Two teenage boys and a woman have been gravely injured in a car crash near Box in Wiltshire.



The accident involving a Range Rover and a saloon car happened exterior the Kingsdown Golf Club at about 0820 BST.



Paramedic Ross Culligan, who was first on the scene, said he had never seen such destruction.



Police said the road would remain closed while the council cleared away the debris and advised drivers to find option routes.



The offended, who were all in the saloon car, are being treated at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.



The woman driver and one of the teenagers are said to have life-threatening injuries. The other teenage passenger's condition is described as grave.



The driver of the Range Rover was not injured despite the vehicle rolling numerous times and landing on its roof.




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Driver of school bus in fatal crash may have fallen asleep


CALGARY — the driver of a private school bus told a police official she may have fallen asleep at the wheel before an Oct. 17, 2007, crash in which Kathelynn Occena, a nine-year-old passenger, died.

City police Const. Robert Pughe testified at the start of a fatal accident inquiry on Monday that Louise Rogers told him shortly after the crash on Crowchild Trail, a major Calgary artery, that she actually didn't know what happened.

She admitted she could have fallen asleep. That was about it. She was very distress, Pughe told Alberta Solicitor General counsel Christine Nugent.

When she was told of the death of the child, she became very distressed . Almost suicidal. She told us to take her and bring back the child.

The police officer said Rogers also admitted to have been using her iPod that morning.

He made a decision to transport Rogers to Foothills Hospital, where she spent two weeks in a psychiatric ward with desperate thoughts.

Rogers, 42, was driving a school bus for Third Academy global when it careered off the road and struck the rear left corner of a broken-down gravel truck, then veered off and struck a glow standard.

Under cross-examination by Frank Tosto, legal representative for Third Academy and Rogers, Pughe said mechanical tests showed the truck was in very poor automatic condition at the time. However, it was more than a half-metre on to the shoulder lane, courtyard was told.

Kathelynn Occena succumbed to her injuries and her younger sister Julia, then seven, was one of three children gravely hurt in the crash.

Pughe said although two of the children on the bus testified that Rogers was using a cellphone at the time of the crash, there was no evidence that either of the phones in her cab were being used in the moments earlier.

Const. Kenneth Reed, a city police crash analyst, told court there was no evidence of any pre-collision braking by the bus and no clarification of its cause.

The Occena family, along with the family of a boy who was injured in the collide, have sued Third Academy.


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Two hurt in early-morning crash in Town of Clay


Town of Clay, NY - (WSYR-TV) - At least two people were injure Tuesday morning in a two-vehicle collide along a busy road in the Town of Clay.

The collide happened just before 7:30am at the corner of Soule Road and Burningtree Road. There was no instant word on the seriousness of the victim's injuries.


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Track accident involves local team


INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A fatal accident involved a local racing team at the NHRA Arizona Nationals.

A woman in the crowd died later than she was hit by debris that flew off a crashing dragster.

Antron Brown was in a race against Troy Buff in the top fuel class Sunday when Brown’s left rear wheel came off. The tire flew into a viewer area where it startled fans and hit a woman.

It all happened moderately quick. The car could have went in any route, said witness Jesus Espinoza. It caught on flames right in front of us and it was something else.

The woman was airlifted to a neighboring hospital where she died.

The NHRA said Brown was not harm. He drives for Brownsburg-based Don Schumacher race.

Racing continued after the mishap but was later postponed due to rain.


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4 hurt as car veers off road 99 in Sodo, crashes on tracks


Four people were taken to the hospital Tuesday night after a crash on Highway 99 South sent one car off the highway and onto the adjacent railroad tracks. Another car was upside down on the street.

Each of the four suffered minor injuries and was taken to Harborview Medical Center, said Seattle flames Department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick, who did not recognize details about the injuries.

Officials closed the southbound lanes of the highway near South Stacy Street, south of Safeco Field and the part of the road known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct. The highway reopened around midnight Wednesday.

The crash occurred at about 10:40 p.m. Both vehicles were totaled after flipping numerous times.

A male driver was alone in the car that left the street. Three men were in the car that remained on the highway, a white Sedan. The driver of that car may have suffered a busted arm.

None of those involved was drinking, police said. Police are investigating the accident's origin.


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St. Pete driver blames humid gas pedal for Toyota crash



ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- A four car collide Monday night on U.S. 19 sent four people to the hospital.



The female driver of one of the vehicles, a belatedly model Toyota Camry, said the gas pedal stuck previous to the car flipped and wound up on its roof.



She just said it would not prevent. That was it, said observer Paul Jackson.



The car has been impounded by St. Petersburg police as part of the accident inquiry.



The injuries to those involved in the collide are said to not be serious.



Last night's crash comes on the heels of an statement by Toyota that a fix for potentially humid gas pedals on millions of cars.



Toyota's fix for the problem that led to the remember of millions of cars has not come soon enough to stop a consumer backlash in the U.S. and elsewhere that is battering its sales.



One of the automaker's pinnacle executives on Tuesday said the damage from the global recall of almost 4.6 million vehicles may be greater than previous quality problems because of the massive scale.



This is unprecedented in having caused this enormous problem for customers,said Shinichi Sasaki, who oversees excellence control at the world's No. 1 automaker.



He said it was too soon to put a number on the definitive cost of the recall. But Tatsuo Yoshida, an auto forecaster at UBS in Tokyo, estimated the recalls are likely to cost about $900 million, and missing sales are already costing Toyota another $155 million a week.



The recall to fix a gas pedal that can stick when miserable covers some 2.3 million vehicles in the United States alone, including a few of Toyota's best-selling models, such as the Camry and Corolla. The company has recalled millions extra because of floor mats that can catch the gas pedal.






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Vacation Turns fatal After Car Flips Into Pond


ORLANDO -- A fatal car accident devastates a Jacksonville family on vacation in Orlando.
Dana King was killed and her fiancé and his children were hospitalized when the car they were driving flipped over into a retention pool.

It happened Saturday afternoon behind a Benihana eating place on the 12000 block of Floridays Resort Drive.

The vehicle crashed through a fence and into a retention pool between the resort and the eating place. Because the retention pool had a steep embankment, the car flipped over.

The father, Brandon Nesmith, and his 14-year-old daughter, Ariel King, were capable to get out of the car.

But bystanders and crisis personnel had to jump into the water to help get the 33-year-old's two other daughters, Taylor and Brealyn, out.

While Nesmith and his children were transported to region hospitals, the Orange County Dive group continued to search for the 35-year-old woman.

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