Woman Pulls Into Path of Truck.

Date: 09/21/2007
Time: Around 8:00 A.M.
Location: Columbia Station, Ohio
Vehicle(s) Involved: Chevy Lumina, truck

By TMC News

"An early morning crash in Columbia Station sent a mother and her baby to two different hospitals.

Lieutenant Glenn Peterson of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said that around 8 a.m. Friday morning a woman pulled out of her driveway on Root Road in Columbia Station into the path of a northbound truck. The collision carried the car approximately 100 + feet. The truck, from Timber Wolf Crane Services from Medina, went off the road and into a yard on the west side of Root Road taking out shrubs and tress before stopping next to a utility pole. The woman was trapped in the vehicle with her baby, fully restrained, in the back seat of the car.


Lieutenant Stacey Borling of Columbia Township Fire Department said that extrication took 20 to 25 minutes. “When we arrived we saw that she was trapped so we mutual aided with surrounding departments and launched LifeFlight right away. We received help extricating the victim from Eaton Township and Olmsted Falls Fire Departments.” Lt. Borling said that the baby was not trapped and was still fully restrained in the back seat."


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All lanes are reopened on westbound 10 Freeway in El Monte.

Date: 07/24/2012
Time: Around 4:00 A.M.
Location: El Monte, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford Windstar, truck

By Pasadena StarNews

"EL MONTE - All lanes of the westbound 10 Freeway were reopened late Tuesday morning at Peck Road, the site of an earlier fatal accident, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Three of the four lanes were closed for more than six hours Tuesday after a minivan driver was killed and two road construction workers were injured. The accident occured at 4:14 a.m. Tuesday, said the CHP.
Traffic lanes were reopened by around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to the CHP, but not before creating a major traffic slowdown from El Monte to West Covina that may have added more than an hour to commute time for motorists driving to Los Angeles.
CHP Officer Ed Jacobs says a Ford Aerostar rear-ended a road work truck as the crew picked up traffic cones on westbound 10.

Jacobs says the minivan's driver died. Two road workers were taken to the hospital with minor to moderate injuries.

Jacobs says he can't confirm TV reports that a dog in the minivan also was killed.

The crash follows a Sunday accident that killed two road workers on Interstate 405 in Torrance. Authorities say two suspected drunken drivers collided, and one car slammed into repaving equipment."

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Driver Critical After Bypass Wreck.

Date: 07/19/2012
Time: Around 2:00 P.M.
Location: Newtown, Pennsylvania
Vehicle(s) Involved: School bus, delivery truck

By Tom Sofield - Newtown Patch

"The 75-year-old driver of the school bus that slammed into the back of a furniture delivery truck on the Newtown Bypass Thursday afternoon remains in critical condition at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, according to a release from Newtown authorities.
The driver, Janet Callan, of Doylestown, was flown by PennStar medical helicopter to Philadelphia after a nearly 20-minute extrication by more than a dozen firefighters following the crash.
The only passenger on the bus was Eleanor Weaver, 68, of Warminster. She suffered injuries and was transported to St. Mary Medical Center by ground ambulance and was released shortly after, police said.
No students were on the bus, which was operated by First Student.
Witnesses to the wreck told investigating officers that the yellow bus traveled onto the shoulder of roadway for a several yards before it struck the back of the truck. A detective at the scene Thursday told Patch the bus had scraped the guard rail along the eastbound shoulder in the moments before the crash.
The delivery truck, which was being leased by Mealey’s Furniture in Falls Township and was owned by Freedom International Trucks, was pulled over on the side of the Bypass after a check engine light came on, police said. The 29-year-old delivery truck passenger said at the scene that the crash, which happened approximately three minutes after the box truck pulled over, made a loud “boom.”
The two men who were working for Mealey’s were not injured.
Officers conducted an inspection of the truck and found no mechanical problems that played a role in the crash. The inspection of the bus is on-going, police said.
Firefighters and EMTs from Northampton and Wrightstown assisted Newtown authorities with the rescue operation.
Police did not comment on whether medical issues contributed to Callan losing control of the bus right before the crash."

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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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Woman in Critical Condition Following Route 90 Crash.

Date: 06/22/2012
Time: Around 1:30 P.M.
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Vehicle(s) Involved: Truck, Toyota Echo

By ChrisD.ca News & Media

"A 19-year-old woman was sent to hospital in critical condition following a two-vehicle crash on Route 90 Friday.
RCMP say the accident happened north of Inkster Boulevard at around 1:30 p.m. when the woman’s southbound Toyota Echo collided with a truck turning west.
The male truck driver wasn’t injured in the crash.
Southbound traffic was reduced to one lane as police investigated."

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Driver in Sunrise crash allegedly high.

Date: 02/02/2012
Time: Around 9:00 A.M.
Location: West Islip, Rhode Island
Vehicle(s) Involved: Nissan Sentra, Truck

By PATRICIA KITCHEN  patricia.kitchen@newsday.com

"The operator of a black Nissan was arrested and charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs after an accident Thursday morning that briefly closed the westbound lanes of Sunrise Highway in West Islip, officials said.

The driver was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center with head and face lacerations and is still at the hospital, according to the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department. The driver of the second vehicle was also taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center and has been released.

The Suffolk County Sheriff's Department was investigating the accident, which occurred east of the Robert Moses Causeway at 9:09 a.m. The westbound Sunrise Highway lanes were re-opened at 10:32 a.m., the sheriff's office said.

Photo Credit: Photo by James Carbone"

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