Montgomery Police officer injured in crash this morning near police station.

Date: 11/06/2012
Time: Around 10:45 A.M.
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford Crown Victoria, Ford Econoline

 By Erin Edgemon - AL.com

" MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- A Montgomery Police officer was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries after his unmarked car flipped in a traffic accident this morning at the intersection near the Montgomery Police Station.
The accident occurred at the intersection of North Ripley Street and Columbus Street around 10:45 a.m.
Update: The officer is being released from the hospital this afternoon, Montgomery Police Lt. Regina Duckett said. His name isn't being released.
Duckett said the crash involved an MPD unit and a van. The occupants of the van received minor injuries when it overturned.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. Details of what happened will not be released until the crash report is completed."

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Fiery crash near Philomath results in serious injuries, charges.

Date: 08/04/2012
Time: Around 4:45 P.M.
Location: Near Philomath, Oregon
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Tacoma, Ford Econoline

By CANDA FUQUA, Corvallis Gazette-Times

"A Portland man who was seriously injured in a fiery crash two miles west of Philomath on Saturday was reportedly in stable condition on Sunday afternoon, but faces charges related to the crash.
Biet Nguyen, 69, of Portland was cited with third-degree assault, driving under the influence of intoxicants and reckless driving after his pickup rolled and then slid on its roof down Highway 20. An oncoming van struck it and caught fire.
Driving east on Highway 20 toward Philomath on Saturday evening, Nan Perigo was the first witness on the scene at 4:44 p.m. She slowed when she saw a cloud of dust in front of her.
“The next thing I knew,” she said, “there was an upside-down car in front of me and a van on fire across the way.”
The driver of the van, Stephen Sever, 63, of Corvallis, seemed dazed by the impact, Perigo said. He hadn’t realized that his 1999 Ford Econoline had caught fire. Perigo and another bystander alerted him.
“We both hollered for him to get out,” she said. “… He was slow to react but once he realized what we were saying, he got out.”
He escaped out of the passenger side window. Emergency responders transported him to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, where he was treated for minor injuries.
Nguyen, upside down in a 2003 Toyota Tacoma pickup, was unconscious after the crash, Perigo said. She hadn’t noticed at first, but he was the driver who had passed her just minutes earlier.
Multiple people had called 911 prior to the crash, reporting that the pickup was weaving and might be driven by an intoxicated driver, according to Benton County sheriff deputies.
Investigators believe that Nguyen’s vehicle drifted off the highway and when it hit gravel, he jerked the wheel to get back onto the road. It caused the vehicle to flip and begin to slide on its roof.
Sever’s van crashed head-on into the front driver’s side of the upside-down pickup and came to rest in the ditch on the westbound side of the road.
After Sever escaped the burning van, Perigo and another bystander gathered fire extinguishers from the rows of cars that began to gather at the scene.
“We were concerned that the van was going to blow up and cause even more problems,” Perigo said. “We emptied four fire extinguishers on it and it was still going. It would slow it down but none of them would put it out.”
Philomath Fire Department put out the blaze and cut open the other vehicle to get to Nguyen.
“The roof was crushed,” Perigo said. “He (Nguyen) obviously rolled it hard.”
The crash resulted in the closure of Highway 20 for roughly three hours.
The Benton County Multi-Agency Crash Investigation Team assisted at the scene. Firefighters and EMTs from the Philomath Fire Department and the Corvallis Fire Department assisted, as well as the Oregon Department of Transportation.
The sheriff’s office is asking anyone who witnessed the crash or has any information to contact Sgt. David Peterson at 541-766-6820."

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Two dead in separate crashes on roads outside Calgary.

Date: 05/01/2012
Time: Around 04:00 P.M.
Location: Calgary, Canada
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Corolla, Ford Econoline

 *Pictures are of only one of the crashes mentioned in the article.*

By Clara Ho and Deborah Tetley, Calgary Herald

"CALGARY - A young boy was killed in a two-vehicle crash and a man from Calgary is dead following a fiery wreck after two separate collisions outside city limits Tuesday afternoon.
The collision east of Calgary that killed the boy and sent two young children to hospital with critical injuries was a “tough scene” to witness, emergency responders said.
Belongings, a child’s car seat and vehicle debris were strewn across the Trans-Canada Highway. A girl was ejected from the vehicle.
All three children are between five and eight years old.
Four people in total sustained “massive, traumatic injuries,” according to EMS.
Paramedics arrived at Highway 1 and Paradise Road east of Calgary shortly after 4 p.m. following reports of a crash between a small four-door car carrying two women and three children and a utility van driven by a lone male, said an EMS spokesman, Adam Loria.
RCMP say the van was heading east on Highway 1 and the car northbound on Paradise Road when it entered the intersection and was struck.
The boy was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, Loria said.
A girl, who was ejected from a rear seat, was flown by STARS air ambulance to Alberta Children’s Hospital in critical condition.
Another boy, who was also in critical condition, and the two women who sustained serious and potentially life-threatening injuries, were taken to hospitals in Calgary by ground ambulances.
Loria said he didn’t have details on the ages of the injured women or whether the five occupants were related.
The driver of the van was not hurt but shaken up and assessed by paramedics at the scene.
Eastbound Highway 1 heading was closed, and reduced to one lane westbound for several hours following the collision so RCMP could investigate.
Loria said EMS will determine whether attending crews need debriefing or time off to cope after responding to the scene.
“We do have young ones at home or families of our own,” he said.
Airdrie RCMP and EMS were also busy responding to a fatal crash northwest of Calgary, which closed Highway 567, one kilometre west of Symons Valley Road.
RCMP say just after 3:30 p.m., an eastbound car veered into the westbound lanes along Highway 567, colliding head on with a westbound semi truck.
The driver, a 50-year-old man from Calgary, was pronounced dead at the scene, said Sgt. Patricia Neely.
“The car broke out in flames shortly after the collision, burning the car,” she said.
The driver of the semi was not injured."

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