All posts tagged "Transportationaccidents"

A 16-year-old Taylor Swift fan was killed in a car crash on Thursday while she was on her way to Swift’s concert in Melbourne, Australia. Mieka Pokarier was traveling with her mother, Kim, and 10-year-old sister Freya when their SUV was struck by a semitruck, TMZ reported Saturday. All three passengers were injured in the collision, in addition to the driver of the semitruck, but only Mieka’s injuries proved fatal. She was pronounced dead by emergency responders who arrived on the scene, while Freya was airlifted to Sydney’s Westmead Hospital in critical condition and placed in a medically ind......

The adult son of a U.S. senator is in custody after a reported mental health episode led him to steal a car involved in a collision that killed a deputy Wednesday in North Dakota. Police were pursuing Ian Cramer, the 42-year-old son of Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), as he drove a stolen 2017 Chevrolet Tahoe, the North Dakota Highway Patrol said in a news release, according to local outlets. He drove off after authorities approached and ultimately collided head-on with an occupied Mercer County Sheriff’s Office patrol car, behind which a deputy was standing. The collision fatally pushed the vehicle ......

A teenager killed attempting to cross a six-lane highway on foot was coming home from a party in Queens, according to a family friend. Carlos Criollo, 18, was on his way home from a birthday party when he attempted to ford the Long Island Expressway near 98th St. in Corona around 3:20 a.m. Saturday, where pedestrian traffic is strictly forbidden, cops said. He was struck by the driver of a 2019 Lexus RX 350 SUV heading east in the right lane, police said. Medics took Criollo to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens, but he couldn’t be saved. Criollo had been hanging out with family at Flushing......

New questions have emerged about the fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry in North Philadelphia this week after the Police Department changed its narrative of the events leading up to his death. At the scene of the shooting Monday, police first said Irizarry emerged from his car after a traffic stop with a knife in his hand and “lunged” at police, before an officer shot him multiple times, killing him. But on Tuesday night, the department offered a new and different account of the shooting, saying Irizarry did not flee the traffic stop, never lunged at officers with a weapon, an......

NEW YORK — Evening commutes from New York City to Long Island faced delays Thursday following a late-morning Long Island Rail Road derailment in Queens that injured 13 people, MTA officials said. The delays could continue to Friday as the LIRR works to repair the damage around the Hall Interlocking, about a half-mile east of Jamaica station, said MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber. All eight cars of the 10:43 a.m. train out of Grand Central ran off the track near the interlocking at around 11:15 a.m., Lieber told reporters. The train was bound for Hempstead, with an arrival time of 11;37 a.m. FDNY......

A small plane crashed into a home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Tuesday morning, setting the house on fire and killing the pilot, authorities said. The residence was unoccupied, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The pilot was the only person on board the twin-engine Cessna. The aircraft departed from Santa Fe Regional Airport just 2 miles north of the crash site, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The pilot reported left engine trouble almost immediately. The pilot has not been publicly identified. The plane’s scheduled flight path went from Santa Fe’s main airport to Santa Monica, Calif., accordi......