Posted on April 13th, 2010
An elderly woman in western Pennsylvania was killed by a car on her way to Easter Sunday church service.
According to Washington County Deputy Coroner Tim Warco, 81 year-old Shirly Howarth walked between two parked cars onto the street, in front of Canonsburg United Presbyterian Church Sunday when the accident occurred. Authorities say she was struck shortly before 8:00 a.m. by a car driven by a 75 year-old man, who was also on his way to the church.
Howarth was transported to Canonsburg Hospital following the accident. She was pronounced dead on arrival.
Coroner Warco ruled Howarth’s death an accident. Cannonsburg police Sergeant Don Cross called the incident “an unfortunate accident” and says he does not anticipate filing charges.
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Posted on April 13th, 2010
A man is in critical condition following an overnight accident between a car and two tractor trailers in South Philadelphia.
According to officials with the Philadelphia Police Department, the accident occurred in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 between the Girard Point Bridge and the Walt whitman Bridge shortly before 3:00 a.m. Police say one of the tractor trailers, owned by the United States Postal Service, collided with another semi-truck owned by Rite-Aid. The impact of the crash, forced one of the big rigs into a passenger car, causing it to flip over, and trapping the driver inside.
Firefighters worked to free the 40 year-old driver of the car. The injured man was transported by fire-rescue to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in critical condition.
Neither of the drivers of the tractor trailers were injured in the wreck.
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Posted on February 4th, 2010
A jury in Jefferson County Alabama has awarded a former exotic dancer $100,000 in a lawsuit in which she claimed the club where she was employed failed to stop her from driving home after her on-the-job drinking.
Patsy Hamaker of Bessemer was injured in a car crash after leaving work at the Birmingham strip club The Furnace on October 17, 2007. Hamaker claims she can no longer dance because of her injuries.
Attorneys for Hamaker said that the club disregarded its own safety rules when it let her drive home. The $100,000 was awarded for compensatory damages. No punitive damages were awarded.
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Posted on November 10th, 2009
Three people were injured in a serious accident that closed the Pennsylvania Turnpike for nearly five hours on Tuesday.
The accident occurred shortly before 12:30 a.m. near mile marker 237 of the Turnpike in Cumberland County. According to police, a tractor trailer was traveling east when a flatbed wrecker, that was picking up a broken-down car, pulled out in front of him. The turnpike was flooded with spilled diesel fuel and oil.
Three people were injured in the accident. Two people were transported by helicopter to Hershey Medical, a third victim was taken by ambulance.
Cumberland County work crews have been working to clean up the site of the accident and re-open the road. Workers had to spread a substance across the pavement to help dry the spilled fuel. The Turnpike was closed for close to five hours.
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Posted on November 5th, 2009
A former cheerleader and graduate of Canon-McMillan High School in Washington County was killed in a car accident on Sunday evening.
Nichole Chauvet was killed in a crash on Sunday in Altoona. She was a passenger in the backseat of a car that was broadsided by an oncoming car. Three other passengers were injured in the accident.
The Canon-McMillan school district is morning the death of Chauvet. Dr. Helen McCracken of the school district said “In both high school and college, Chauvet was involved in a variety of school activities and was a friend to many. And although no words of solace will do justice to this sadness, we are keeping the Chauvet family in our prayers.”
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