September 23, 2011
The Indiana Department of Transportation will install new caution lights at a southern Indiana intersection where three teenagers were killed under a legal settlement with the families of two of the teens. The settlement Wednesday halted the third day of …
September 22, 2011
Two police patrol cars collided during a driving demonstration at Houston’s police academy, injuring seven people. Among those injured in the Tuesday morning accident were five Chinese law enforcement dignitaries. The seven were taken to neighborhood hospitals. Police did not …
September 22, 2011
A passenger in the car that fatally struck a Pennsylvania woman pushing a stroller says the victim was able to push her two young children out of the path of the sport-utility vehicle that killed her. Carl Denig says he …
September 22, 2011
A Yellowstone County jury has determined that Ford Motor Co. and a rental car business were not negligent in a 2002 crash that killed an Idaho man. The Billings Gazette reports a jury on Monday rejected claims of negligence and …
September 21, 2011
Police say nearly 50 people were injured when a regional train hit a car in eastern Germany. Federal police spokesman Torsten Henkel said the train crashed into the car that was hit by another vehicle and pushed onto the tracks …
September 21, 2011
A Massachusetts man who crashed his newly-purchased minivan into six cars at the Portsmouth, N.H., car dealership lot because he couldn’t get his money back says he knows what he did was wrong. Forty-two-year-old David Cross of Salisbury, Mass., was …
September 20, 2011
Amid the horrific aftermath of the nation’s deadliest air racing disaster, a crash that killed nine and sent about 70 people to Reno-area hospitals, a sort of calm pervaded. Witnesses were spattered with blood and pieces of flesh, yet video …
September 16, 2011
South Padre Island Mayor Robert Pinkerton Jr. admits he does a double take when he sees barges and tugboats traveling near the Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge. It is not that the vessels fascinate him. He just remembers that it was …
September 15, 2011
An investigation into a train crash that killed 10 people in southern India has so far found that one of the trains sped up at a signal where it should have stopped, the railways minister said Wednesday. An additional 52 …
September 15, 2011
Last month, an astute observer was driving in Mountain View, Calif., when he came across a multiple car fender-bender. According to later reports, a Toyota Prius had hit a Prius, and that Prius hit an Accord, which hit an Accord, …