• WRIC

    VDOT holds vigil for workers killed by drivers at Workers Memorial on I-64

    The vigil took place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17 at the department's Workers Memorial, located on Afton Mountain on Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. The event was part of Work Zone Awareness Week, which has taken place every year since 1997.

    • WBRZ

    Driver killed after three-vehicle crash in Houma

    HOUMA - One person died in a three-vehicle crash in Houma Tuesday night, according to Louisiana State Police.Police say the driver, who remains unidentified pending notification of next of kin, crossed the centerline while traveling north on LA Highway 659 before crossing the centerline, side-swiping one vehicle heading south, and hitting another car head-on.The driver died on the scene, while one other person sustained minor injuries. The driver was unrestrained while driving.Permalink|...

    • WGNO

    Driver killed in three-vehicle crash in Terrebonne Parish

    The Louisiana State Police Troopers are investigating a three-vehicle fatality crash in Terrebonne Parish on Tuesday, April 16.

  • Driver, 18, charged after three teens killed in crash

    Harry Purcell, aged 17, Matilda Seccombe, 16, and Frank Wormald, 16, died in the two-vehicle crash in Campden Road, near Shipston-on-Stour

  • Driver flees scene after allegedly killing Osun poly student

    A hit-and-run driver allegedly fled the scene of an accident which claimed the life of Olanrewaju Olatona, a student of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State, late Monday. The accident was said to have occurred when the driver who was reportedly driving against traffic, collided with the motorcycle conveying Olatona, and another passenger along the Read More

  • Italy hydroelectric plant explosion kills at least three workers

    A search is continuing for the missing after parts of the structure collapsed and led to flooding at Enel’s power station near BolognaAn explosion at a hydroelectric plant in northern Italy has killed at least three workers and injured five others, a regional fire chief said. At least four other people are missing.The blast on Tuesday was at power company Enel’s decades-old Bergi plant, south of Bologna, and happened during maintenance work, according to authorities. Regional fire chief...

  • Police: Driver, passenger sought after fleeing officers, crashing in Provo

    PROVO, Utah, April 8, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Provo police are searching for a driver and passenger accused of leaving the scene of a crash after fleeing officers early Sunday. Officers attempted to make a traffic stop over driver’s license and moving violations just after midnight Sunday, Provo police said in a news release Monday. […] The post Police: Driver, passenger sought after fleeing officers, crashing in Provo first appeared on Gephardt Daily.

  • Speeding driver reverses wrong way at 60mph before he is caught by police officer

    A police officer swapped his high-speed patrol car for a bike to arrest a speeding driver in South Yorkshire. The Range Rover driver was seen reversing down 60mph roads, driving at speeds of 80mph in a 30mph area and driving the wrong way around a roundabout, before crashing and fleeing the scene in Dalton Lane, Rotherham. Running after the suspect, a member of the public who had witnessed the incident offered the officer his bicycle, saying “go get em!”. The officer was quickly on the bike and...

    • WFLA

    Three Memphis police officers shot, two suspects caught after shootout

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three Memphis police officers and two suspects were shot in an exchange of gunfire early Friday morning. The shooting happened on Hewlett Road and Horn Lake Road in Southwest Memph

  • Vermont driver is charged with aggravated murder in crash that killed a police officer

    A Vermont man accused of killing a 19-year-old police officer in a head-on crash during a pursuit in Rutland last summer has pleaded not guilty to a new elevated charge of aggravated murder

  • Police officer and sheriff's deputy killed in Syracuse shootout at runaway driver's home

    A police officer and a sheriff's deputy were shot and killed after confronting a driver who had failed to stop in upstate New York on Sunday, police said. The so-far unidentified suspect was also killed in the shootout outside his home, police said. Syracuse Police Department said in a statement that its officers spotted a "suspicious vehicle" shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday between Emerson Avenue and Hamilton Street on the west side of the city. Police tried to stop the car but the driver "refused...

    • KEYT

    Driver arrested after fleeing California crash that killed child, injured 4 other passengers

    CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday arrested the driver who fled the scene of a solo car crash on a San Francisco Bay Area highway that killed a 9-year-old girl and injured four other passengers over the weekend. The 22-year-old man faces charges including manslaughter, felony hit-and-run and child abuse, the San Francisco Chronicle