#traffic-collision

#traffic-collision

PACIFICA A 75-year-old motorist who rear-ended a SamTrans bus earlier this month in Pacifica died Tuesday, authorities said. It was not immediately known if the injuries the motorist suffered in the crash played a role in her death, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The collision happened around 4 p.m. on Jan. 8 at Fassler Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway. The motorist suffered injuries that were believed to be minor at the time, the sheriff's office said.

This is the first picture of a much-loved five-year-old boy killed after being struck by a family friend's electric vehicle that allegedly accelerated on its own accord. A court heard motorist Ashenafei Demissie claims he was sitting in his parked Volkswagen ID.4 when it suddenly sped into Fareed Amir and his own son Raphael, 12, in November 2022. Demissie, 52, denies causing death and serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving in a car park outside his flat near London Bridge Station, The Times reports.

"We only have one car," the victim's tearful wife, a public school teacher, said. "He didn't want a second car. He loved that scooter. He went to work on it. The only thing he didn't use it for was to transport the kids." "He had it for a while," she added. "He loved it. I was like, 'We need a second car. We have two kids now.' And he's like, 'We don't need it.'"

Ontario Provincial Police say one person is dead after a two-vehicle collision in Kawartha Lakes Saturday. In a post to social media, police said a cargo van and a car crashed on Highway 35. The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The driver of the cargo van was transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

A major motorway ground to a halt after a serious collision near a busy airport. The M11 in Essex was closed northbound between J6 (M25) and J7 (Harlow) earlier this afternoon as Essex Police and National Highways officers attended the scene. Three vehicles, two cars and a van, were reportedly involved in the collision. It remains unclear if anyone was seriously injured.

A bicyclist killed last week in a Tahoe-area crash has been identified as a Lafayette man. James Booth, 42, died Friday, Nov. 28, after a collision with a car on Mount Rose Highway, the Washoe County medical examiner's office said. The crash was reported around 12:25 p.m. near milepost 17, in the Galena Creek area, the Nevada Highway Patrol said. Both lanes of the highway, which runs between Reno and Incline Village, were closed in the aftermath of the crash.

A motorist fatally struck a cyclist riding through the Southside neighborhood Saturday afternoon. John Edward Muller, 65, of Richmond had been riding southbound on Telegraph Avenue near Haste Street when the driver, headed north, struck him, according to police and the county coroner. Emergency workers took Muller to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The police department's Fatal Accident Investigation Team is looking into the collision, Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Byron White said in an email.

A 26-year-old Brampton man is dead after a crash on Highway 401 involving two commercial vehicles east of Woodstock, Ont., police say. Emergency crews were called to the two-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes of the highway at Oxford Road 29 in Drumbo at around 7 a.m., according to Ontario Provincial Police. When emergency crews arrived, they discovered that one commercial vehicle had rear-ended another commercial vehicle.

At around 7:44 p.m., police officers were notified of a stolen vehicle, according to a spokesperson from the police department. Soon after, they attempted to make a traffic stop at 24th and Capp streets. The car then fled and crashed into another car in front of the Napper Tandy bar, just one block away. The two suspects fled from the collision site and the police officers pursued them by foot.

A 25-year-old police officer was struck and killed after she stopped to help a motorist in an overturned vehicle on a San Diego freeway on Monday night, authorities said. La Mesa Police Officer Lauren Craven was on her way back to La Mesa from a jail around 10:30 p.m. when she came across the vehicle on Interstate 8 and stopped to assist, according to a statement from police. After exiting her vehicle to help, she was hit by another driver.

CHELSEA, Manhattan (PIX11) - Multiple pedestrians were hit by a vehicle on 8th Avenue on Monday afternoon, according to the NYPD. The incident happened around 4 p.m. in front of 400 8th Avenue. Police say a box truck heading north on 8th Avenue hit a parked van, causing it to go onto the sidewalk. The vehicle struck a building as a result, according to the FDNY. At least 9 individuals were transported to a local hospital in stable condition.

A 46-year-old BMW driver died early Sunday after he slammed into a support pillar underneath elevated subway tracks in the Bronx, police said. The driver was zipping south on Jerome Ave. in Fordham Heights when he sideswiped an I-beam supporting the overhead No. 4 train tracks near E. 181st St. just before 4:30 a.m., cops said. He then veered away, over-corrected and crashed his 2022 BMW 330i into another I-beam head-on, cops said.

An 89-year-old woman died after being struck by a car in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred near West 22nd Street and Neptune Avenue when a driver, believed to have suffered a medical episode, backed into three women on the sidewalk. The elderly woman was taken to NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn, where she succumbed to her injuries.

In the video, the officer's car had a minor collision with a car driven by Wilks. As soon as both cars came to a stop so the drivers could assess the damage, Wilks got out and immediately walked toward the driver's side of the officer's car. Wilks was seen yelling at the officer. When the officer got out of his car, he walked in front of it to look at the spot where the collision had occurred. As he walked, Wilks trailed behind him and continued berating him. Then, Wilks suddenly brandished a handgun and hit the officer in the head with it. The officer pulled out his own firearm and shot Wilks multiple times.