Struck By Incidents
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Paralyzed Florida Man Uses PVC Pipe to Drive ATV, Crashes with Children in Vehicle
A 30-year-old paralyzed man has charges pending against him after he was involved in a wreck that injured two young children. Shannon R. Majors of Panama City was driving a 2010 Carbide 150cc ATV along the clearing beneath a series of power lines. Majors is paralyzed so he used a PVC pipe to operate the gas and brake pedals of the vehicle.
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New Hampshire Officer Struck By Car, Flown To Hospital
A Jaffrey police officer was flown to a Massachusetts hospital after being struck by a car Wednesday morning.
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Bond Set At $50,000 In Colorado Tow Truck Driver Hit & Run Case
Prosecutors call the man accused in the hit-and-run death of a tow truck driver an “extreme threat to society.” Bond for Zachariah Dobler was set at $50,000 after a video appearance in Jefferson County court on Monday. Investigators say Dobler was driving the SUV that hit and killed a tow truck driver early Sunday morning.
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Charges Filed Against Driver in Wisconsin Rt 201 Crash into Police Car
Excessive speed, poor brakes, and failure to obey the new "move over" law. Police say that's what caused a driver to smash into the rear of a cruiser on route 201 southbound Monday. Charged in the accident is Joshua Dygurt of Marcy, New York.
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Medford, NJ Firefighter Struck by Truck While Directing Traffic
A member of the township's fire police unit was taken to Cooper University Hospital in Camden on Friday night after being hit by a pickup truck, police said Tuesday. David Angelotti, 28, of Atsion Road, was directing traffic at Routes 70 and 541 when he was struck at 11:19 p.m. by an eastbound Dodge Dakota driven by John E. Macarthur Jr., 61, of Eayrestown Road.
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NJ Man Charged with DWI After Crashing into Parked DOT Truck
A Wrightstown man was charged with driving while intoxicated Friday after his vehicle crashed into an unoccupied Burlington County highway truck, police said Monday.
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Philadelphia, PA Police Search For Driver In Officer Involved Hit And Run
The overnight duty captain of the 39th police district was on patrol just before 4:00 a.m. Sunday morning in Hunting Park when his marked police cruiser was struck from behind by a hit and run driver. The police officer suffered minor injuries while the driver remains at large.