Archive for December, 2007
Saturday, December 8th, 2007
A Costa Mesa woman was seriously injured when she was hit by a truck at Wakeham Place and Hallowbrook Lane in Costa Mesa, police said Friday.
Gertrude Powers, 74, suffered multiple fractures and a head injury after a Santa Ana man accidentally struck Powers with his 1991 Ford F350 while she was walking across the street, police said.
Powers was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana where she is in serious but stable condition.
Costa Mesa police are continuing to investigate the collision.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
A young Toronto-area man met a cold and lonely end beside the city’s busiest highway interchange , after a bizarre series of events that left police initially puzzled and motorists facing a daylong traffic nightmare.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
welve hours after one of his drivers lost control of a tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline, sparking a Wednesday morning fire in Everett, Mass., that burned homes and cars, Curtis Marston was hoarse from being “up all night.”
A partner in North Hampton’s P.S. Marston Associates with his brother, Paul, Curtis said nothing like this has happened since the company was founded by his father, Paul Sr., in 1973. A report later in the day from WCVB-TV of Boston cited past problems for the North Hampton company, also known as Abenaqui Carriers, as well as Dover resident Chad LaFrance, the employee driving the tanker.
Wednesday’s accident spilled 9,400 gallons of burning fuel into a sleeping community. Witnesses said a 10-foot wall of flame flowed through the neighborhood below a traffic circle where the tanker flipped, blowing up cars and destroying two triple-decker, multifamily homes. Nearby residents were hastily evacuated, including about 84 residents of an elderly housing complex and 10 to 12 families that lost their homes in the fire. No one was seriously injured.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
A Putnam County man has filed a suit against the nation’s largest retailer after his car was damaged when improper work was performed during an oil change.
Roger D. Null of Poca filed a suit in Kanawha Circuit Court against Wal-Mart.
According to the suit, Null took his 2005 Dodge Ram truck to the Nitro Wal-Mart to have an oil and filter change.
The work was performed on his truck, a new oil filter was found for the truck and sold to Null.
However, the oil filter selected and installed was defective in that it was not the proper filter for the truck.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
A collision between two semi-tractor-trailers on the Dalton Highway left a Fairbanks man dead Thursday evening.
Marvin Harris, 52, was killed when the trailer of an oncoming semi drifted into his lane and hit the driver’s side of his Peterbilt, Alaska State Troopers said.
Harris was heading north when the accident occurred around 6:30 p.m. at Mile 53. Jason Knight, 34, of Fairbanks was driving south in a Freightliner.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Two men shot one another yesterday in the 100 block of Spencer Street in South Toledo during an altercation over a tow truck, police said.
Eliseo Selvera III, who lives on Spencer, was taken to Toledo Hospital. Ronald Nigh of Parrakeet Avenue was taken to University of Toledo Medical Center, formerly Medical College of Ohio Hospital. Nursing supervisors at both hospitals said they had no information about patients by those names.
Two men went to Mr. Selvera’s house asked him to tow a car for them. He refused and told them to leave. He and Mr. Nigh were wounded during an exchange of gunfire, police said.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
A DRUNK lorry driver who drove the wrong way down the A14 carriageway into the path of an oncoming police officer has been jailed.
Former prison warden Ruszard Burek was almost four times over the legal drink drive limit after consuming a cocktail of whisky, beer and strong painkillers at the Orwell Truck Stop.
The 48-year-old then got into his articulated lorry and drove onto the slip road and onto the inside lane of the A14 facing the flow of traffic. Police received seven calls from distressed motorists who were forced to swerve to safety.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Nearly two dozen cows were killed when a tractor-trailer overturned on the State Route 840 on-ramp, entering Interstate 65, in Peytonsville Tuesday morning.
84 cows were aboard the trailer when the rig overturned at about 2 a.m.
Some escaped and officials had to round them up into a make-shirt corral, set up beside the overturned truck.
The cleanup extended until late Tuesday morning.
Traffic was slowed to a crawl for the morning commute, partly from drivers who couldn’t resist the urge to slow down and see the roadside rodeo.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Around Mars Hill, N.C., truckers keep up a steady chatter of warnings on the CB about the weather, traffic, and “bears” – police – looking for overweight loads.
Even with 200 state truck inspectors out on the roads, some local-run truckers in Florida routinely overload their trailers and dump trucks, to make up for hard-to-find manpower and the $3.20 they pay for each gallon of diesel. In Pennsylvania, citizens complain about roads sagging and bridges groaning under the pressure from overweight trucks dodging interstate weigh stations.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
The trial of a truck driver involved in a 2003 fatal tollway crash is in its second day.
Vincente Zepeda (vihn-SEHN’-tay zuh-PAY’-duh) of Chicago faces charges of reckless homicide in the deaths of 8 members of a women’s club.
The women were returning from an outing to a Japanese gardens when their small tour bus was struck from behind by Zepeda’s semi.
Survivors described the crash yesterday in McHenry County court. Bus driver Kenneth Lipski testified traffic had slowed to 15 miles per hour at an Interstate 90 toll plaza when Zepeda’s truck approached at perhaps 50 miles per hour.
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