Car Rams Apartment Building.

Date: 07/28/2007
Time: Unknown
Location: Elyria, Ohio
Vehicle(s) Involved: Mazda 3

By TMC News

"One neighbor described the noise of the car hitting the building as a “bomb going off.” A man returning home to his apartment building on 6th Street believes he blacked out just before his car rammed the building.

Elyria Fire Department Captain Joe Pronesti said the car struck directly below an apartment window breaking through the façade and the interior masonry. “It’s not in any danger of collapsing, not totally, we just need to shore it up. Right now we’re waiting on the Building Department and the property manager to show up.”

Capt. Pronesti said that LifeCare Paramedics checked out the driver but the man signed off at the scene.

The driver, Theron Burnett, said that he was coming home and was parking his car when he all of a sudden blacked out. “It was my fault but I just blacked out. I don’t really remember it.”"

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Name released in fatal Monday morning crash.

Date: 07/16/2012
Time: Around 2:50 A.M.
Location: Near Sutherlin, Oregon
Vehicle(s) Involved: Mazda 3, log truck

By KPIC.com Staff

"NEAR SUTHERLIN, Ore. -- A Roseburg woman is dead after an early morning crash near Sutherlin on Monday.
Oregon State Police say that at around 2:50 a.m., an unloaded log truck being driven by Kelly Kremer, 59, of Myrtle Creek, was heading westbound on Highway 138 West, about eight miles west of Sutherlin,
That's when officials say (censored), 28, of Roseburg, driving a Mazda 4-door sedan, crossed the center line and struck the log truck nearly head-on.
Troopers don't know at this point why she crossed the line, but the investigation is continuing.
Officials say Clift was not wearing a seat belt, and was driving with a suspended operator's license.
Kremer was transported by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, where he was treated and released for minor injuries.
OSP officials say that he was using safety restraints.
Senior Trooper Robert Gorman from the Oregon State Police told KPIC News that there was alcohol found in Clift's vehicle, but do not know at this point if alcohol was a factor in the crash.

OSP troopers from the Roseburg Area Command office are continuing the investigation. Douglas County Sheriff's Office, Sutherlin Police Department and Kellogg Rural Fire District assisted at the scene.

The highway was closed for about four hours."

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Two killed in crash that sent SUV into resort fountain.

Date: 09/30/2011
Time: Around 8:45 P.M.
Location: St. Pete Beach, Florida
Vehicle(s) Involved: Mazda 3, Chevy SUV

By Tampa Bay Online

"Two people were killed Friday night when an SUV slammed into a car before overturning and landing in a fountain outside a resort on St. Pete Beach.

The crash happened at about 8:45 p.m. in front of the Alden Beach Resort, 5900 Gulf Blvd., said Robert Weil, a traffic homicide investigator with the St. Pete Beach Police Department.
The two people in the car were dead at the scene, Weil said. They were identified as (Name) 32, of Tampa, and (Name) 33, of the Chicago area, St. Pete Beach police said.
The driver of the SUV, identified as (Name), of Gulfport, was taken to Bayfront Medical Center in serious condition, he said.
Witnesses said a motorcycle officer with lights flashing was behind the SUV when the crash happened. Police said the officer just had turned on his lights and was not chasing the SUV when the wreck occurred.
Police, rescuers and on-lookers moved among flashing emergency lights in the aftermath of the dramatic crash; an eerie Friday night spectacle on the normally sedate strip of beach road lined with hotels, fast-food restaurants and meandering tourists."

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