Posted on February 25th, 2010
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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Posted on February 25th, 2010
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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Posted on February 18th, 2010
Two people were injured when a school bus collided with a car in Pennsylvania.
According to police, the crash occurred on Route 73 in Zieglerville outside the Perkiomen Middle School in Montgomery County. At least two people were injured in the crash and transported to a nearby hospital where they are listed in serious condition.
Students onboard the bus at the time of the accident are being assessed for injuries. The two confirmed injured people were passengers in the car with which the bus collided.
Even a relatively minor accident is not always a simple matter to deal with. Insurance companies are often reluctant to pay the full amount that policy holders are entitled to. Even worse, there are many drivers on the road without adequate coverage at all.
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Posted on February 18th, 2010
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced for driving under the influence in relation to a crash that killed a police officer.
Levittown-resident Frank Budka Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to 4 1/2 to 17 years in state prison for driving under the influence and causing the death of Middletown Township police officer Chris Jones. Jones, a married 37 year-old father of three and 10-year veteran of the police force, was struck by his own patrol car after Budka's vehicle crashed into it. Jones' police cruiser was stopped on the side of the road during a routine traffic detail on January 29, 2009, when Budka slammed into the vehicle pushing it forward into the police officer.
At the time of the crash, Budka had marijuana, cocaine, metabolites, and methadone in his system.
According to police, an accident reconstruction estimates Budka was driving 63 miles per hour when the crash occurred.
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Posted on February 11th, 2010
A Pennsylvania woman was seriously injured Friday afternoon after her car struck a pickup truck that lost control on Pa. 655 north of McConnellsburg.
According to a nursing supervisor at Altoona Hospital, 41-year-old Christina M. Musser, of Broad Top, Pennsylvania, was listed in serious condition Saturday night.
Musser was traveling north on Pa. 655 in Taylor Township, Pa., in a 2005 Pontiac Sunfire when a Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by 67-year-old Victor R. Black, of Hustontown, spun into the oncoming lane while navigating a steep hill. Pennsylvania State Troopers say the two vehicles struck at their front left corners.
Black was not injured in the crash, but two of his passengers both suffered minor injuries.
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Posted on February 11th, 2010
One man was killed and eighteen others injured in two separate pileups on Interstate 80 in central Pennsylvania.
About twenty-five vehicles were involved in the pileups, police say. According to Clearfield County Police, the first wreck occurred shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday when two tractor-trailers jackknifed. At least twelve other trucks and three cars were involved in that crash.
The second wreck happened about two miles south on the same interstate about thirty minutes after the first. As traffic slowed for the pileup, seven trucks crashed into one another and collided with a car driven by 57-year-old Steven Samuelson, of Orangeville, Ill. He was killed instantly.
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Posted on February 4th, 2010
Three high school seniors were killed on Wednesday after theSUV they were riding in slid off the road into an icy lake.
18 year-old Suam Bucci, of Zelienople; 18 year-old ElijahLunsford, or Marion Township in Beaver County; and 17 year-old Trevor Barkleyof Lancaster Township, Butler County, were killed in the crash. According to a statement released by ButlerCounty Coroner William Young, on Wednesday, all three teens drowned andautopsies will not be conducted.
“There was nothing fishy,” Young said. “They were all threegood boys, there were no signs of drugs or alcohol. There were no [visibleinjuries]. They probably just couldn’t get out of the water.”
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Posted on February 4th, 2010
A student at Penn State died Monday night after sufferingcomplications from injuries sustained in a car accident earlier this month.
According to Pennsylvania State police at Phillipsburg, 19year-old Rachel Petkac was taken to Geisinger Medical Center on January 8 aftershe lost control of her mini-van on Route 550. Police say the vehicle crashedinto a telephone pole on the side of the road.
“She hit [the telephone pole] on the driver side door.”State Trooper Walter Butler said. “The vehicle as a ‘V’. The telephone polecame into the vehicle almost halfway.”
Officials for the Pennsylvania Highway Patrol say Petkac wastraveling at about 55 mph when she crashed, ten miles over the speed limit.
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