Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A tanker truck hauling gasoline crashed and exploded Thursday afternoon on Interstate 35E in Lake Dallas, killing the driver and shutting down the highway in both directions between Lewisville and Denton.
Two men inside the truck were burned in the accident, and one of them later died.
Texas state troopers said the truck was northbound shortly before 2 p.m. when the driver abruptly hit the brakes and lost control, clipping a car and striking a median barrier. The truck overturned across the median and burst into flames.
A witness said the driver was engulfed in flames when he jumped out of the truck.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A roadside bomb exploded Sunday near a gas station in northern Baghdad, wounding three civilians, police said.
The blast went off, as people were lining up to buy fuel at the start of the work week here.
About half an hour earlier, another roadside bomb struck an American military patrol in a northeastern section of the Iraqi capital, police said. A US humvee caught fire, but there was no word on any casualties, police said.
Iraqi police also said US helicopter gunships bombed a truck in eastern Baghdad around 8 a.m. The truck had apparently been carrying a rocket launcher, they said.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Police have named a Mid-Canterbury woman who was killed when her car collided with a milk tanker this morning.
Margaret Anne Taylor, 50, of Mayfield, died at the scene of the crash at an intersection 17km west of Ashburton about 6.55am.
Senior Sergeant Arnold Kelly of Ashburton police said Ms Taylor, known as Anne, was the only occupant of her Nissan Primera car.
Mr Kelly said the police commercial vehicle investigation unit was investigating.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A tractor trailer leaves the Broome County Landfill heads north on Knapp Road, when all of a sudden, the driver loses control at the sharp turn.
“It appears to have rolled over one time, at this time the cause can be due to high speed, unsafe speed,” said Sgt. John Lynch of the NY State Police in Kirkwood.
Moments later, crews arrive on scene, working fast to free the driver trapped inside.
“Because the roof was crushed down on the cab of the truck, we wound up cutting the post on the top of the roof and then we folded the roof on down of the road and used that to basically extricate the patient. He was pinned between the floor and the roof of the truck,” said Gary Smith, the Glen Aubrey Fire Chief.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Police in Biddeford are on the lookout for the culprit who stole a heating oil truck and removed more than 500 gallons of the pricey fuel.
Deputy Police Chief JoAnne Fisk said the truck was filled with 2,800 gallons of oil when it was reported stolen Monday morning from a Dead River County parking lot.
The truck was recovered that afternoon in a residential neighborhood several miles away. But by that time, 530 gallons were gone.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
For some Black Friday shoppers at the Mall of Georgia, crowded stores were not their only complaint.
Gwinnett County Police Corporal Illana Spellman said shoppers called police to complain about a man driving a truck displaying gory images outside of the mall.
“A man was driving a paneled truck that had some graphic photos of aborted fetuses,” said Spellman.
She said a Gwinnett County officer gave the driver of the truck the option to display other anti-abortion banners without the photos.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Hundreds of workers were late to the office early Tuesday after a tanker truck carrying gasoline took a sharp turn and rolled over.
The crash happened at 27th Avenue between McDowell and Thomas roads overnight, shutting down 27th Avenue for nearly 8 hours while fire crews mopped up the hazardous spill.
The truck was carrying 7,500 gallons of diesel fuel.
Five hundred gallons spilled onto the roadway and some made its way into the city’s storm drains.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
At least two Tulare County supervisors disapprove of a business-license ordinance that would restrict the operating hours and location of taco trucks and other mobile food vendors in unincorporated areas.
he proposed restrictions could be crippling, Supervisor Steve Worthley said Tuesday.
“We’re not trying to drive people out of business,” he said. “We’re trying to regulate business.”
Other supervisors also expressed concern about the ordinance and opted not to vote on the matter at Tuesday’s meeting of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A Roseburg man was injured early this morning after he lost control of the chip truck he was driving and crashed on Highway 42.
Jacob A. Young, 23, was driving the 1999 truck loaded with chips and hauling a full pup trailer west when he lost control in a curve near Milepost 42, according to a report from the Oregon State Police Coos Bay office.
The truck tipped over and slid off the road into an embankment and tree. Young, who was not wearing a seat belt, became trapped and had to be extricated, according to the report.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Northbound Interstate 5 was closed for 10 hours Monday after a truck hauling flammable corrosives hit a guardrail and flipped onto its side, blocking both lanes.
The truck’s contents did not spill, but efforts to stabilize and remove them took much of the day, state Department of Transportation spokesman Joe Harwood said.
At one point, northbound traffic was backed up two miles while drivers skirted the mess by exiting I-5 at Highway 58 and immediately getting back on.
Oregon State Police cited commercial truck driver Dathon Branch, 30, of La Crosse, Wis., for failing to drive within a traffic lane.
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