A small plane fell to the ground and exploded in flames shortly after takeoff on Wednesday from Hawaii’s Lanai Island. The crash killed three people and left three others injured. A Maui County spokesman reported that the incident occurred at approximately 9:30 p.m. Wednesday evening about one mile from Lanai…
One side of the ice-coated Pennsylvania Turnpike outside Philadelphia was completely blocked last week due to two major pileups and a number of smaller fender-benders that involved both tractor-trailers and other cars. At least thirty people were injured and traffic was backed up for hours. It was just after 8:30…
An allegedly stolen box truck collided with a city bus at a Manhattan intersection early Wednesday morning, which caused both vehicles to land on the sidewalk and crash into scaffolding. Police received a 911 call at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday reporting a stolen delivery truck. Just moments later, the delivery…
Interstate 94 in northern Indiana was a scene of mangled, burned cars despite the snow that blanketed the ground and blew through the air Thursday evening. Some of the vehicles that lay among the wreckage were crushed between folded semi-tractors, so entangled that responders found it difficult to tell them…
As Dellon Smith discovered the wreckage of his older brother’s airplane resting on the side of a central Idaho mountain, he started running. Smith sprinted in his snowshoes to the pile of snow-covered rubble located on a steep slope and ended the six week search for the missing plane and…
Icy roads mixed with quickly moving, heavy fog created the perfect recipe for disaster on a busy highway near Boise, Idaho during Thursday morning’s commute. The weather led to a pileup of more than forty vehicles, including a logging truck, and at least ten people were injured. According to authorities,…
Greyhound Lines, Inc. is facing a federal civil lawsuit brought by three passengers aboard a company bus that flipped over and crashed in Ohio in September. The three passengers who brought the lawsuit are Winston-Salem, NC resident Tyrone Allen, Detroit resident Rayvar Williams, and Halladay, TN resident Lorianne Stevens. The…
Two men were hit by a bus at the Omni Station in Miami earlier this month. A forty-four-year-old man and a seventy-four-year-old man, accompanied by his twelve-year-old grandson, were on their way to a Miami Heat basketball game when the two men were hit by a bus at the driveway…
A New Mexico judge awarded close to $80 million to the family of a New Mexico woman who was killed in 2002 when she was buried alive in sand that fell from a tractor-trailer after it struck her car. Laura Miera, an Albuquerque resident, was suffocated as teachers and students…
An accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike last Sunday resulted in one death and a fifty-car pileup. It was just before 12:30 p.m. in southeastern Pennsylvania when the first wreck occurred. One of the individuals involved in that wreck exited his car to check on the other people involved in the…