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One person died and dozens of elementary school children were taken to hospitals Friday after a school bus crash in northern Illinois that left two cars mangled and the bus on its side, authorities said. All 35 people aboard the bus survived the crash in Wadsworth, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran Jr. said.

A 9-year-old girl who walked about a mile in Southern California to find help after surviving a crash says she was sad to hear that her father did not survive....

A baby delivered after his parents were killed in a Brooklyn hit-and-run accident died early Monday, a community spokesman said.Click to Continue »

Police say the car carrying four Pennsylvania high school football players was going at least 80 mph when it crashed in January, killing all of them.

A 22-year-old man crashed his car into his girlfriend's Boyle Heights home, killing her and a newborn baby, authorities said Monday.

A great-grandchild of former South African President Nelson Mandela died early Friday morning while returning from the World Cup soccer tournament's kick-off concert, officials with the Mandela foundation said.

A truck crossed a Kentucky interstate median and slammed head-on into a Mennonite church van headed to a wedding, killing 11 people, state police said Friday.

More than 5,800 people were killed and 515,000 injured in U.S. car crashes last year tied to distracted driving, according to data released on Wednesday.

The prime minister’s party on Saturday called for an investigation into the car crash that injured Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife.