#traffic-fatality

#traffic-fatality

Just after 4 p.m. Saturday, the motorcyclist was riding a 2019 KTM Duke at a high rate of speed on southbound Highway 29, authorities said. He approached the intersection as the Tesla's driver crossed the southbound lanes while turning left from Hoffman onto northbound Highway 29.

A motorcyclist died Thursday after colliding with a sedan in what police said was a DUI-related wreck involving another driver. The crash happened about 4:45 p.m. in the area of Buchanan Road and Woodborough Place. Officers arrived to find the 46-year-old Concord resident down. He died despite rescue efforts by police and medical personnel.

Prosecutors say the crash happened at about 3:21 a.m. on August 18, 2023, as Croswell headed south on Court Street at roughly 60 miles per hour. They allege he ran three consecutive steady red lights before entering the intersection of Court Street and Atlantic Avenue at an estimated 62 miles per hour and T-boning a westbound car that had the right of way, killing front-seat passenger 21-year-old Shanti Joyner.

A pedestrian was killed on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Monday night, authorities said. The person was struck by a vehicle near Winding Way about 7:30 p.m., Lt. Aaron Jacob of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. The driver was cooperative and stayed at the scene, Jacob said. Investigators do not suspect drugs, alcohol or speeding played a role in the collision, he said. The incident is still under investigation.

The crash happened around 10:39 a.m. Dec. 14 in the southbound lanes just south of Vine Hill Road, near the north edge of Scotts Valley, according to the California Highway Patrol's Santa Cruz office. CHP investigators said the 49-year-old man was driving a 2025 Toyota Tacoma when, for reasons still under investigation, the truck left the roadway and struck a tree near the right shoulder.

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The driver of a minivan hit and killed a philanthropist who was cycling north up Riverside Drive in Washington Heights late on Sunday, according to friends and cops. Cops say the wreck unfolded a little after 9 p.m. on Sunday at Riverside Drive and 158th Street when a 37-year-old driver of a white Toyota minivan struck the 78-year-old biker from behind. The driver remained at the scene and has not been charged. The investigation is ongoing, the NYPD said.

Around 7:21 a.m. that morning, Hopkinton, Rhode Island, police received a report of a single-car crash near 42 Spring St. (Route 138) in Hope Valley. Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered that a pedestrian walking his dogs had been struck. Following a preliminary investigation, police believe the vehicle was traveling eastbound on Spring Street when it left its lane and stuck several objects, including two telephone poles, as well as MacLeod, who was walking on the shoulder of the roadway.

Carlos Chavez Martinez, 28, of Providence, died from his injuries after the white Audi sedan he was driving collided with a parked tractor-trailer around 2:30 a.m. on Interstate 95 Southbound near mile marker 9.2. Massachusetts State Police received several 911 calls reporting the crash. Investigators said the Audi had exited the roadway to the right and collided with the tractor-trailer, which was parked in a rest area.

An 18-year-old Watertown man was killed while riding a moped Tuesday morning after authorities said he failed to stop for police in Belmont and ultimately collided with an SUV. The deadly crash occurred at the intersection of Stults Road and Fairview Avenue, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan and Belmont Interim Police Chief Mark Hurley said in a statement. Belmont police saw the moped driving erratically and on the wrong side of Trapelo Road shortly before 9 a.m.

A man is dead after he was struck by a vehicle in Ajax on Friday night, Durham Regional Police say. The fatal collision happened on Taunton Road E. near the intersection with Warner Drive. Police were called to the area for a pedestrian collision shortly before 7 p.m. When officers arrived, they found an injured man and a vehicle that had sustained damage, according to Acting Duty Insp. Andre Wyatt.

The crash was reported at 5:35 p.m. after a woman driving a silver 2007 Ford sedan heading west on Rancho Drive took a left turn onto southbound Monterey Road, according to the San Jose Police Department. That put her in the path of a northbound blue 2013 BMW coupe, and the two vehicles collided, causing the BMW to hit the center divider and cross into southbound lanes.

As Laoranda Murati of Great Kills grieved the loss of her 19-year-old son, Albion Hysenaj, in a fatal crash on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, authorities allege the driver's mother was desperately trying to sneak him out of the United States. Vilma Vneshta, 42, allegedly helped her son, Alvi Limani, 20, both of Commodore Drive in Prince's Bay, flee from authorities after the crash in Woodbridge claimed the life of Hysenaj, and seriously injured another passenger, Joseph Donzella, 21, of Bay Terrace.

A single-car crash in Rehoboth left the driver dead and three juvenile passengers injured on Monday morning. Massachusetts State Police received a report of the crash on I-195 east at mile marker 4.2 around 9:15 a.m. State Police believe the driver suffered a medical emergency, according to a press release shared with Boston.com. First responders transported the driver and three juveniles to a nearby hospital in Rhode Island via ambulance.

The 33-year-old driver was identified by the coroner's bureau Friday as Anthony Andres Reynoza Monchez, of Hayward. The passenger was identified by the coroner's bureau as Luis Alberto Deras, 31, of Union City. The fatal crash happened about 5:28 p.m. Thursday on westbound Thornton Avenue near Hickory Street, police said. Upon arrival at the scene, police and Alameda County firefighters located a Toyota Prius that had crashed into a tree, causing the passenger to be ejected.

A 16-year-old boy died after falling 75 feet off an Interstate 80 on-ramp during a sideshow in Crockett, according to a Facebook post by the California Highway Patrol. Authorities at CHP's Contra Costa office received a call around 3:26 a.m. Saturday of a sideshow involving over 100 vehicles blocking the intersection of Pomona Street and Merchant Street near the entrance and exit ramp for I-80 westbound on Pomona Street.

The fatal crash happened around 4:25 a.m. on October 17, 2021, when Nolasco sped southbound in a white Mercedes on Third Avenue. NYPD officers attempted to pull him over, but he refused to stop, running multiple red lights as police chased him at speeds up to 80 miles per hour. At the intersection of 60th Street, Nolasco blew through another red light and T-boned a Nissan Altima driven by 42-year-old James Lopez, who was driving lawfully through the intersection.

An 8-year-old girl was killed Wednesday when she was struck by an ambulance in Van Buren, a town in northern Maine, according to Maine State Police. Just after 4 p.m., state police responded to a crash near Kennedy Terrace and Main Street in Van Buren, where an ambulance traveling north fatally struck Emma Cormier. The girl was attempting to cross the street when she was hit, state police said in a statement.