A tractor-trailer driver from Pennsylvania (PA) was injured Monday, January 17th, when his vehicle was struck by a freight train that afternoon. The driver, who has not yet been identified, was hit at the Cedar Avenue crossing just south of Lincoln Boulevard in Middlesex Township. Traveling south on Cedar, he collided with a 107 year-old…
The City of Virginia Beach has been dismissed from a $25 million lawsuit filed by the family of a homeless man killed on the beach by a city garbage truck, WAVY.com has reported. On June 28, Michael Knockett, 52, was run over by a city owned truck while sleeping on a beach chair. Knockett’s family…
An Iowa Interstate Railroad employee suffered serious abdominal injuries when a freight train backing up in the rail yard for a Council Bluffs, IA, power plant crashed through a closed gate, bent a guardrail and pinned him in place so tightly rescuers needed to use heavy cutting tools to free him. News reports noted that…
On January 8th, 2011, a boy crossing Piney Forest Road as a pedestrian with his mother in Danville , Virginia (VA), was struck by a car. The accident occurred just before noon, when the pair was near the intersection of Woodside Drive . The boy was traveling east, crossing the southbound side of the road,…
A head-on collision in northwest Washington D.C. has killed two people, reports police. The accident occurred on Canal Road near Clark Place early Friday morning. The at-fault driver lost control of his Jaguar. The vehicle slid across the road and into oncoming traffic, police said. The Jaguar collided with a 2007 Ford pickup and both…