An man in Philadelphia was killed and two others injured in an early morning car accident Monday.

According to officials with the Philadelphia Police Department, 18 year-old Francis Moll, of the 4900 block of Cottage Street in Frankford, was driving a car traveling on Torresdale Avenue when the fatal crash occurred. Shortly before 5:30 a.m. on the 4200 block of Torresdale Moll lost control of his vehicle and slammed into the back of a parked tow truck.

Moll was transported by Emergency Medical Services to St. Christopher's hospital for Children after the accident. He was pronounced dead about two-hours later. 

The two passengers in the vehicle, a 24 year-old woman and a 17 year-old boy, were injured in the accident. The two were also transported to St. Christopher's where they were treated and released.

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A man in Pennsylvania was killed Friday while filling his car at a gas station.

According to Todd Eckenrode, the Cumberland County Coroner, 19 year-old L. David Byers was pumping gas into his Toyota Yaris at a BP station in Lower Allen, Pennsylvania shortly before 3:00 a.m. Friday, when gasoline vapor fumes caught fire. Byers was killed after inhaling superheated gases from the flash fire. State police say Byers fell victim to a rare phenomenon where static electric discharge sparked the gasoline vapor.

Bill Renkes, a spokesman with the Petroleum Equipment Institute in Oklahoma, blames Byers' youth for the tragic incident. Renkes said younger people are unaware of the dangerous of static electricity at gas stations. Older people know to touch the car door before pumping gas, Renkes says, which acts as a ground to discharge static electricity.

"There are 11 billion fill-ups a year," Renkes said. "This is the second fatality we know of. That makes the chances of dying this way, what, two in tens of billions..."

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A woman sustained serious injuries to her spine and lungs in a Pennsylvania car accident early Tuesday morning.

The 39 year-old woman from Newton was driving a black Vauxhall Tigra on the A380 shortly after 12:00 a.m. Tuesday when the crash occurred. The Tigra left the road and smashed into a tree near the Buckland over-bridge. 

Firefighters arrived at the scene of the crash and used hydraulic cutting equipment to free the woman, who was trapped in her vehicle.

The driver was treated for injuries on the scene before being transported to Torbay Hospital. Her condition is not known.

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Three people were injured in a four-vehicle crash in Carbon County Tuesday.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, 81 year-old Ruh Witherow, of New Oxford, Pennsylvania, was driving a Ford Taurus the wrong way down the eastbound lane of Route 248 near the intersection of Club Road when she collided head-on with a Chrysler van driven by 59 year-old Shirley Phillips, of Slatington. Two cars behind the van, driven by 56 year-old Nadine Harbove and 32 year-old Brian Ellis, struck the Chrysler. 

Police sources say Witherow, Phillips and Harbove were transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest for treatment. Police did not disclose the extent or nature of their injuries. 

Ellis was uninjured in the crash and was able to drive away from the scene.

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A man from Illinois was killed in a 25-vehicle pileup on a snowy Pennsylvania interstate.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, 57 year-old STeven Samuelson of Orangeville, Illinois died in an accident on Interstate 80 in Clearfiled County, Pennsylvania. Police say the pile up was one of two that involved twenty-five vehicles total. Samuelson crashed his vehicle into 14 other vehicles after two semi-trucks jackknifed on the interstate.

Authorities say Samuelson was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. There is no word on how many other people were injured in the snowy crash.

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A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the Toyota Motor Corporation on behalf of a University of Pittsburgh student that died in a single car crash in 2007.

The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, alleges that the 2007 Yaris hatchback that 21 year-old Tyrene Livingston was driving two years ago had a defect in its electronic acceleration system. Livingston reportedly told the dealership, four days before the fatal accident, that she believed her brakes were not working properly. Mechanics checked her vehicle and claimed there were no problems.

As Livingston was driving the car on October 26, 2007, the vehicle careened across three lanes of highway traffic, crashing through a concrete barrier into the woods. Livingston was pronounced dead at the scene. The lawsuit, filed by Livingston's mother, contends, "The troubled carmaker should have provided a mechanical linkage between the accelerator and the engine or a way for the brake to override the system"

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