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Mom, son killed hours apart in separate car accidents

A Wisconsin woman and her adult son were killed in separate traffic crashes just hours apart in a Milwaukee suburb, police say.

 

Van plunges into NY's Bronx Zoo, killing seven

Van Plunged into Bronx

Seven people, including three children, were killed on Sunday when a van crashed through a highway guardrail and plunged more than 100 feet into New York's Bronx Zoo, police said.

 

43 killed in Mexican bus-truck collision

Forty-three people were killed and 18 injured Friday morning in a roadway crash involving a bus in the state of Veracruz, the governor's office said.

 

Millionaire guilty of DUI manslaughter

Florida millionaire John Goodman was found guilty Friday after being accused of driving drunk, hitting another vehicle and running it off the road into a canal, where its driver was later found dead in his submerged car.

Senh: John Goodman sounds like he was lying his ass off. Not only did he not admit that he was drunk, but he also lied about not calling the police. He could have helped the victim and save his life. Instead, he was just thinking about covering it all up.

 

Parents of teen who died texting and driving: 'Kids think they're invincible'

Texting and Driving

Bright, outgoing college teen Taylor Sauer proved in the last minutes of her life she knew right from wrong — but still committed a fatal mistake. Sauer was making a late-night, four-hour drive from the Utah State University campus in Logan to visit her folks in Caldwell, Idaho. She passed the time along I-84 messaging a pal on Facebook about the Denver Broncos football team. But she stopped short, writing in her final missive, "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha."

 

Worst train tragedy in Poland in years kills 16

Train Accident

Two trains running on the same track collided head-on in southern Poland in a shower of sparks, killing 16 people and injuring 58 in the country's worst train disaster in more than 20 years....

 

Car wrecks killed 32,885 in U.S. last year

Car Accident

Some 32,885 people died on the nation's roadways in 2010 -- a number that, while slightly higher than preliminary figures released in April, shows the downward trend in traffic deaths is continuing, now reaching low levels not seen since 1949, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Thursday.

 

1 dead, 2 injured in Harvard-Yale tailgate crash

1 dead, 2 injured in Harvard-Yale tailgate crash

A U-Haul truck sped through a parking lot into a crowd of tailgaters Saturday before the Yale-Harvard football game, killing a woman and injuring two others, authorities said.

 

Family of 4 is killed in Virginia; driver of other car is charged with DUI

They were a family of four — a mom and dad and their two young sons — apparently headed to a relative’s house Sunday morning for a cookout. They were halted at a red light near Winchester, Va., when their vehicle was hit from behind, in a crash that might have been alcohol-related, state police said. The fuel tank of their Jeep Cherokee ruptured and the vehicle burst into flames, according to police.

 

'Macho Man' Randy Savage dies in car accident

'Macho Man' Randy Savage dies in car accident

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Savage, 58, was driving his Jeep Wrangler when veered across a concrete median, through oncoming traffic, and "collided head-on with a tree."

 

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