Information sought in fatal crash.

Date: 04/20/2013
Time: Around 5:30 A.M.
Location: Marinette, Wisconsin
Vehicle(s) Involved: Chevy Tahoe

By FOX11

"MARINETTE - Marinette County authorities are looking for more information about a weekend crash in which a victim was later found dead at a home.
A damaged SUV sits empty inside the Marinette County Sheriff's Department, and a few days ago, that's exactly the way deputies found it.
"Our officer got there, there was no one around the vehicle," explained Marinette County Sheriff Jerry Sauve.
Sheriff's officials say they were called to a ditch along County W, just west of Crivitz, around 5:40 a.m. Saturday. A vehicle was found rolled over, but no people were in the area.
Officers say their investigation led them to the town of Stephenson home of the registered owner. The first time they stopped there, no one answered the door.
They returned around noon and met with the vehicle's owner. He told officers his roommate was also in the vehicle when it crashed the previous night.
When officers asked to speak with this man, the vehicle owner took them to an upstairs bedroom, where the roommate was found unconscious and presumed dead. The county coroner was then called. He pronounced the victim dead at the scene.
"We had an autopsy done on the victim Monday morning and it's been determined that he died of internal injuries sustained in the crash," Sauve said.
The dead man has been identified as 52-year-old Steven J. Hirth. Investigators believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.
Officials say there are still a lot of unanswered questions, but they ultimately feel the outcome could have been different.
"It's not uncommon for us to get people who crash their car and take off on us because they've been drinking or just want to avoid law enforcement," Sauve explained. "In this case, had they stayed at the scene and received proper medical attention, there's a good chance that perhaps he could have survived."
Emergency Room doctors agree.
"It's very important after a serious accident that you be evaluated, especially if you have alcohol in your system, because that can cloud some of the symptoms of serious injuries," explained Dr. Michael DeFrank with St. Mary's Hospital.
Because of the on-going investigation, authorities are not releasing the name of the vehicle's registered owner."

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Head-On Collision Kills Three Tulsans In Rogers County.

Date: 10/04/2012
Time: Around 4:00 P.M.
Location: Near Owasso, Oklahoma
Vehicle(s) Involved: Chevy Malibu, Chevy Tahoe

By Newson6.com

"ROGERS COUNTY, Oklahoma -

Three Tulsa men are dead after a car was struck head-on by a sport utility vehicle at 46th Street North and 145th East Avenue in Rogers County.

According to authorities on the scene, a man in a Chevrolet Tahoe attempted to pass a semi in a no-passing zone, striking and killing two men in a Chevrolet Malibu, about 4 p.m. on Thursday.
The man driving the SUV was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol identified the driver of the Tahoe as Owen McCool, 29, from Tulsa.
OHP identified the driver of the Malibu as Clifford Colyer, 21, and his passenger as Garold Benner, 23. Both men were from Tulsa.
All three men were pinned in their vehicles and had to be extracted by the Tulsa Fire Department, using the Jaws of Life."

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SUV Rolls Over on 57.

Date: 10/09/2007
Time: Around 3:30 A.M.
Location: Elyria, Ohio
Vehicle(s) Involved: Chevy Tahoe

By TMC News

"Miraculously the five occupants of this Tacoma walked away from this crash with no injuries.

Elyria Firefighters and LifeCare Paramedics responded to Route 57 (northbound) in front of the Elyria Holiday Inn for a reported roll over crash. The white Tahoe was traveling north on Route 57 around 3:30 a.m. when the truck went off the side of the road, rolling over and coming to rest in the ditch. All five, 2 females and 3 males, refused treatment or transport from the scene.

Elyria Police is investigating the crash."

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Driver killed in head-on crash named.

Date: 07/27/2012
Time: Around 3:00 P.M.
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Vehicle(s) Involved: Hyundai Sonata, Chevy Tahoe, Ford Mustang

By Alex Tomlin

"ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - One person is dead and another is recovering at UNM Hospital after a head-on crash that shut down a major Albuquerque street Friday afternoon.
Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies reported (censored), 74, was driving north in his Hyundai Sonata when he clipped the rear of a Mustang in front of him on Broadway Boulevard SE at Murray Road.
Garcia then spun out of control and into oncoming traffic hitting a southbound Chevrolet Tahoe headed south.
Garcia died at the scene, and the other driver, whose name has not been released, suffered what deputies called severe injuries.
The driver of the Mustang was not injured.
The crash happened about 3 p.m., and at 8 p.m. the Tahoe driver was reported to be in surgery at UNMH.
Broadway south of Rio Bravo Boulevard was closed for about three hours.
Deputies said there was no sign of drug or alcohol use by Garcia although their investigation is not yet closed."

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Head-on collision kills one.

Date: 05/14/2004
Time: Around 7:20 A.M.
Location: Rosalia, Washington
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford Focus, Chevy Tahoe

By John Craig The Spokesman-Review

"A Spokane woman who turned 21 earlier this month was killed Friday morning in a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 195 at Rosalia.
Stephanie Calvert’s compact Ford Focus was crushed when it collided at 7:25 a.m. with a Chevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle driven by Shelley R. Solberg, 52, of Colbert.
Calvert died at the scene, 35 miles south of Spokane. Solberg and two 14-year-old boys in her vehicle were taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane with injuries that police said appeared to include broken bones and cuts.
Solberg was in satisfactory condition Friday afternoon, but the boys — including her son and a friend of his — were in serious condition in the pediatric intensive-care unit.
The Washington State Patrol did not identify the boys because they are minors.
Trooper Bruce Blood said Calvert was northbound when her car drifted into the southbound lane, almost to the fog line.
The southbound Solberg attempted to avoid the collision by steering toward the northbound lane, but Calvert made a sharp correction and the vehicles collided in the southbound lane, near the center of the road, Blood said.
He said both vehicles had been going about 60 mph, which is the speed limit, although a witness in a car behind Solberg’s said Solberg was braking when the vehicles hit almost squarely head-on.
There was no immediate indication that alcohol was involved, Blood said.
“It could have been a momentary lapse, and she just drifted over,” he said."

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Woman killed in Galloway Twp. crash ID'd.

Date: 06/21/2012
Time: Around 9:00 A.M.
Location: Galloway Township, New Jersey
Vehicle(s) Involved: Pontiac Sunfire, Chevy Tahoe

By ABC6 Action News

"GALLOWAY TWP., N.J. - June 21, 2012 (WPVI) -- The woman killed in a crash with an SUV from the Atlantic County prosecutor's office has been identified.

Police say 25-year-old (censored), of Aloe Street in Galloway Township, died in the crash on Thursday morning.
The crash happened around 9:00 a.m. at the intersection of Route 30 (White Horse Pike) and Avenue A.
Galloway Police said, in the moments before the crash, they received several calls about an erratic driver in the eastbound lanes of Route 30.
That vehicle, a 2003 Pontiac Sunfire, crossed into the westbound lanes and struck the SUV, a 2011 Chevy Tahoe, which then overturned.
That Tahoe was owned by Atlantic County and was being driven by a member of the Atlantic County prosecutor's office.
English, the driver of the Sunfire, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Tahoe, Chief Darren Dooley of the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, was taken to the hospital. His family told police he is in stable condition with no life-threatening injuries.
Galloway Township Police and the New Jersey State Police are investigating this crash.
The roadway was shut down in the area as an investigation into this crash continues."

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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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