Dump truck jumps median, crushes two cars on I-635.

Date: 09/10/2013
Time: Around 10:30 A.M.
Location: Dallas, Texas
Vehicle(s) Involved: Dump truck, Toyota Camry, Lexus ES350

By CBSDFW
 
"DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Both directions of the LBJ Freeway were shut down early Tuesday afternoon due to a dump truck crash between Webb Chapel Road and Marsh Lane. The incident happened at about 10:30 a.m. when the truck appeared to have jumped over the center concrete median.
Chopper 11 was live over the scene and spotted at least two other vehicles involved in the crash, one on each side of the highway. Both of those cars were pinned underneath each end of the dump truck.
According to Jason Evans with Dallas Fire-Rescue, there has been one confirmed death as a result of this incident. Another individual had to be transported away from the scene after being extricated from their car, but did not have life threatening injuries. Authorities have not yet said what may have caused the dump truck to jump over the median and into oncoming traffic.
The area where the crash took place is part of the LBJ Express Project, where road construction has already been impacting the regular flow of traffic heading east and west through north Dallas."

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Princeton Rabbi Dead, 2 Seriously Injured in Crash Outside of Riverside Elementary School.

Date: 03/28/2013
Time: Around 9:30 A.M.
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Vehicle(s) Involved: BMW 3-Series, Toyota Camry, Toyota Prius

By Princeton Patch

"A 74-year-old Princeton Rabbi was killed and two people seriously injured after a BMW careened down Riverside Drive on Thursday morning without braking, crossed to the other side of the road and struck two parked cars.
Rabbi James Diamond of Princeton, who was getting into a parked Toyota Prius at the time of the crash, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred around 9:40 a.m.
Diamond is the former director of Princeton University's Center of Jewish Life, and moved to Princeton from St. Louis. According to a 1995 article posted on the Princeton University website, he is married with three children.
The driver of the BMW, Eric Maltz, 20, of Princeton, was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center. Rabbi Robert Freedman, 63, of Princeton, who was in the Prius was also taken to the trauma center. Both of their conditions are classified as serious but not life-threatening, according to Princeton Police.
Freedman is a former cantor at the Jewish Center of Princeton. Both Freedman and Diamond were reportedly leaving a weekly Talmud study group when the accident occurred.
Maltz was driving a 2003 green BMW sedan was driving south down Riverside (away from Route 27) when it crossed into the southbound lane and struck a parked Toyota Camry, pushing it into a parked Toyota Prius parked behind it, police said.
The BMW pushed both cars about 500 feet, and the Prius ended up even further away, across the street and onto private property.
"There are two obvious things," Princeton Police Capt. Sutter said at the scene Thursday morning. "The BMW was traveling at a high rate of speed and didn't appear to attempt to brake."
There was no immediate indication that Maltz suffered any type of medical condition that may have led to the crash, Police Sgt. Mike Cifelli said.
The speed limit on the street, which is in a school zone, is 25 mph.
The crash remains under investigation by Princeton Police, with the assistance of the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office. "

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Jersey City limo driver, 24, dies in crash with tractor trailer on Tonnelle Avenue.

Date: 03/27/2012
Time: Around 3:45 A.M.
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Camry

By The Jersey Journal

"On what one family member said was going to be his last day on the job, a 24-year-old limousine driver died yesterday morning in a horrific crash on Tonnelle Avenue in Jersey City, The Jersey Journal reports.
Usman Chaudhry, of Storms Avenue in Jersey City, was declared dead at the scene at 3:43 a.m. after crashing a 2009 Toyota Camry into the back of a tractor trailer in the right southbound lane just south of Secaucus Road, police said."

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Car veers into guardrail; driver seriously injured.

Date: 03/30/2010
Time: Around 12:00 P.M.
Location: Burien, Washington
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Camry

By Cathy McLain, Mark Rahner

"A Tukwila man was seriously injured in a crash that embedded a guardrail inside the passenger compartment of the car he was driving.
Haybe Ahmed was driving a Toyota Camry northbound on Highway 509 in Burien at 12:11 p.m. Tuesday when he drove across a lane and struck a guardrail separating northbound and southbound traffic near Southeast 128th Street, according to the State Patrol.
Ahmed, 46, was trapped in the car until medics extracted him. He was listed in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Tuesday evening.
Police investigating the crash haven't determined whether drugs or alcohol played a role.
The State Patrol says the guardrail prevented Ahmed's vehicle from crossing into oncoming traffic"

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Lorain Fatal Crash.

Date: 09/21/2006
Time: Around 11:45 P.M.
Location: Lorain, Ohio
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Camry

By TMCNews

"“I think he’s dead, I think he’s dead.” Those were the words from one of the first witnesses on the scene of a fatal crash late Thursday night in Lorain. A car traveling east on East 42nd Street at a very high rate of speed first struck a truck then the curb at the corner of East 42nd and Seneca Ave before crashing into a tree.

Lorain Police, LifeCare Ambulance Paramedics and Lorain Fire Department all responded to the scene around 11:45pmm Thursday night but there was nothing that could be done for the driver who was trapped in the car. Approximately and hour later the driver was removed from the car and transported from the scene as Lorain Police continued with their investigation.

Harold Martin said he was sleeping at the time of the crash but his wife was sitting at the kitchen table playing cards. “She was just playing a game of solitaire when she heard the crash and she looked out and saw that it was right there in our yard.” Martin said that he has lived in that house for 13 years and although speeding and running stop signs is a constant problem in his neighborhood, nothing like this has ever happened before. “This is just something else; I guess it was only a matter of time.”"

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Driver Killed On The N2 Near Amanzimtoti.

Date: 05/31/2012
Time: Morning
Location: Amanzimtoti, South Africa, Africa
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Camry, truck

By Jonckie Accidents.Co.Za

"A driver has been killed after a light motor vehicle and a articulated truck collided on the N2 near to the Kingsway off ramp this morning.
ER24 paramedics, who were on route to another medical emergency, came across the accidents which happen on the N2 south bound. The articulated truck that was carrying sugar cane was across the three lanes of the freeway and half way down the embankment. The light motor vehicle was found in the centre medium with extensive damage to the whole vehicle.
The driver of the light motor vehicle was found inside the car entrapped. ER24 paramedics assessed him and found that he had already succumbed to his injuries as he had suffered severe traumatic injuries. The driver of the truck was unharmed in the accident.
It is believed that the accident occurred on the N2 north bound and came across the centre medium and onto the oncoming traffic. The freeway was closed to motorist until the necessary authorities had investigated the scene.
Derrick Banks, ER24"

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Truro head-on crash injures one.

Date: 11/20/2007
Time: Around 11:30 A.M.
Location: Truro, Massachusetts
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Camry, dump truck

By Cape Cod Times

"The head-on collision of a car and a dump truck closed Route 6 in Truro today near the turn-off for Route 6A.

The driver of the car, who was not identified by the police, was transported by ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital with unknown injuries.

The accident, the town’s second head-on crash on Route 6 in two weeks, happened about 11:30 a.m. when a northbound Toyota Camry apparently crossed into the southbound lane and collided with a heavy-duty dump truck owned by Noons Construction Co. of North Truro, said Truro Police Chief John Thomas.

The driver of the truck, who Thomas would not yet identify, was not hurt, he said.

Truro rescue personnel initially called for a helicopter to transport the driver of the car to Boston, but the helicopter was grounded due to inclement weather, Thomas said.

More than a dozen fire fighters, paramedics and police officers from Truro, Wellfleet, Orleans and Harwich have been at the scene. Some of the officers are members of the Cape Cod Regional Law Enforcement Council’s accident reconstruction team.

Sand from the dump truck was strewn across the highway and the car’s front passenger side was crushed and pinned beneath the truck’s front-end."

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Pileup crash at Vancouver middle school.

Date: 06/03/2010
Time: Around 10:00 A.M.
Location: Vancouver, Washington
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Camry, Volkswagen Beetle, Toyota 4x4, Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight

by David Krough

"VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A speeding pickup up ended up in a Vancouver school parking lot after hitting three other cars Thursday.
The crash happened around 10 a.m. at Shalala Middle School on SE 6th and 192nd Avenue.


Fire officials said the 18-year-old driver of the Toyota pickup had minor injuries after the vehicle plowed into the cars. Witnesses said he was speeding when the crash happened.
A mother and two children in one of the cars were unhurt.
The 18-year-old man was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries."

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Estevan priest dies after train hits car.

Date: 06/10/2012
Time: Around 10:30 A.M.
Location: Macoun, Saskatchewan, Canada
Vehicle(s) Involved: Train, Toyota Camry

By CTV Regina

"A Roman Catholic priest from Estevan has died in hospital after the car he was driving was hit by a train.

RCMP have identified the victim as 43-year-old (censored).
Emergency crews responded to the collision in the community of Macoun, about 30 kilometres northwest of Estevan, Sunday morning.
The driver of the vehicle was taken to hospital in Weyburn and was later transported by STARS air ambulance to Regina, where he died from his injuries Thursday morning.
Mounties say the railroad crossing was marked with signs and the lights and whistles on the train were working at this time of the collision.
The crash remains under investigation, but police say no charges are expected."

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Head-on crash in Falls sends three to hospital.

Date: 09/21/2011
Time: Around 11:30 A.M.
Location: Falls, Pennsylvania
Vehicle(s) Involved: GMC Jimmy, Toyota Camry

By Ben Finley/phillyburbs

"FALLS — Three people, including an 18-month-old, were rushed to a hospital Wednesday morning after two cars collided on Oxford Valley Road near Andover Road, police said. The accident occurred about 11:30 a.m.

One vehicle was traveling northbound while the other vehicle was traveling southbound, police said. The road was shut down while police investigated.
Police said the southbound vehicle, a GMC Jimmy, driven by Wendy L. Barnes, 34, of Levittown, crossed the double yellow line for an unknown reason and collided head-on into a northbound Toyota.
The Toyota was driven by Tina Conturso, 38, of Middletown, who was with her daughter, Gianna Conturso, police said.
All three were taken to St. Mary Medical Center in Middletown. Gianna, who was properly secured in a safety seat, was treated and released.
Conturso and Barnes were to remain at the hospital for observation, police said.

Ben Finley: 215-949-4203; email: bfinley@phillyBurbs.com; Twitter: Ben_Finley"

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Bayonne Police identify 20-year-old victim of fatal Route 440 crash.

Date: 10/05/2011
Time: Around 10:40 A.M.
Location: Bayonne, New Jersey
Vehicle(s) Involved: Pontiac Grand Am, Toyota Camry

By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal  

"Bayonne Police have identified the 20-year-old Jersey City woman who died in a fatal two-car accident this morning that also seriously injured three other people.
The woman, Tynesia Brown, of Rutgers Avenue in Jersey City, was the passenger in a Pontiac Grand Am that police say made an illegal U-turn on Rt. 440 at the intersection with Pulaski Street near the border of Jersey City and Bayonne at around 10:40 a.m.
Brown was declared dead at the scene.
Deputy Police Chief Ralph Scianni said that the roads that had been closed after the accident were reopened as of 3 p.m. The victim's mother and father have been notified of their daughter's death, police said. Brown would have turned 21 in November, police said.
Three other people have been taken to Jersey City Medical Center trauma center and are being treated for possible internal injuries, police said.
Bayonne Police, who arrived on the scene at 10:41 a.m., said a Toyota Camry was heading southbound on Rt. 440, when the motorist of the Pontiac Grand Am committed an "illegal U-turn onto the southbound lane of Rt. 440," causing the collision.
Firefighters worked along with McCabe Ambulance Service to tend to victims, who were reportedly transported by ambulance to Jersey City Medical Center for further medical attention.
Fire Department members also worked to clean up leaking vehicle fluids."

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