Car Crash ArticlesCar Accident Victim Awarded $1.4 Million SettlementMedford, OR: It was anything but a Merry Christmas in 2010 for William Geary, as he lay in the hospital recovering from a horrific car crash that left him trapped in his vehicle for 90 minutes, severely injured, with the remains of a heavy transport-truck trailer on top of his flattened pickup truck.
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New Jersey Man Awarded $10 Million in Car Accident Compensation May 30, 2011. By Charles Benson.Middlesex County, NJ: A Middlesex County, New Jersey jury recently awarded $10 million to a construction worker and his wife after the man was allegedly injured in a 2008 car accident, reports MyCentralJersey.com.
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Thirteen People Dead in Bus CrashNew York, NY: At least thirteen people died in a bus crash when the bus they were traveling in rolled onto its side and was sliced in half by a support pole for a large sign. In addition to the thirteen killed in the bus accident, another eight were in critical condition. The bus crashed on March 12 on a busy highway in the Bronx.
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Toyota SUA Deaths: Electronics not at FaultWashington, DC: Transportation officials with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and NASA engineers released their findings from a 10-month joint study on safety problems with Toyota vehicles, and report that there are no electronic flaws associated with sudden unintentional acceleration or SUA in Toyotas.
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Serious Injuries in Bus CrashGunnison, CO: A bus crash in Colorado has resulted in serious, but not life-threatening, injuries to eight passengers. Several other passengers suffered minor injuries in the bus crash, which occurred when a tour bus veered off a mountain highway. The driver of the bus was not hurt when the bus crashed, but more than 35 passengers were taken to hospital with minor injuries. One of the seriously injured was an 11-year-old girl.
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Vermont Bus Accident Injures 37 December 4, 2010. By Lucy Campbell.Putney, VT: A bus accident on Interstate 91 has injured 37 people, six critically, MSNBC.com is reporting. The bus was carrying students from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst to Quebec, Canada for a skiing holiday. It was one of three buses transporting students on the ski trip.
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Accident Kills 5, Police Looking for DriverSan Diego, CA: Five people were killed Saturday in an accident involving two cars and 12 motorcycles. According to news reports, the driver of one of the cars fled the scene, after causing the accident.
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New York Bus Crash Kills FourSalina, NY: A bus crash involving a double-decker bus occurred in central New York, killing four people and injuring others. The bus had left Philadelphia on September 10 and was destined for Toronto, with stops in Syracuse and Buffalo. According to The Associated Press (09/11/10), the bus, which was off-route at the time of the accident, was too high to make it under a low clearance bridge.
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Eight Dead at California 200Lucerne Valley, CA: Eight people are dead and another dozen injured after an off-road truck lost control and drove into the crowd at a race known as the California 200. According to The Associated Press (08/15/10), the truck crash came shortly after the race began, in the Mojave Desert. Officials said it took rescue workers more than 30 minutes to reach the location.
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Car Accident Kills Family of Four in IdahoGlenns Ferry, ID: A family of four died in a car accident on the interstate highway in Idaho Thursday night. According to a report on CNN.com Amado Herrera, 48, of California, and three passengers were heading west on Interstate 84 near Glenns Ferry, in their Nissan four-door vehicle, when they were struck by a pickup truck. They died instantly, according to police reports.
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