On July 31, 2011 a Kansas woman was run over by a beach patrol truck while sunbathing on a beach in Volusia County, FL. By “run over” I mean the vehicle literally drove on top of her. And by “her” I mean her head. The lifeguard who was driving the truck had been travelling in… read more
A Colusa woman is dead after the motorcycle on which she was a passenger collided with an SUV. Naome “Lynn” Sevigny and her husband, Dale, were travelling west on Highway 70 towards the intersection at Pentz Road. Dale was driving and Lynn was riding behind him. At the Pentz Road intersection, a Jeep Liberty driven… read more
On July 26, 2009 Diane Schuler drove the wrong way for 1.7 miles on the Taconic State Parkway before she collided head-on with another vehicle killing herself, four of the children in the car with her, and all three occupants of the other vehicle. Later toxicology reports indicated that she had the equivalent of 10… read more
Something must be in the air west of Topeka, Kansas. Twice in as many days two individuals stopped traffic on the same 25-mile stretch of Highway I-70 for several hours at a time. This time around, a man barricaded himself in a mobile home on the highway and closed it down for seven hours. The… read more
It sounds like something from one of those prime time crime procedurals: A man dies in a motorcycle crash, the police show up on the scene and find the crashed bike, but nobody finds his body until a family member discovers it the following morning. But this isn’t the plot to a CSI episode, it… read more
A 25-mile stretch of Interstate 70 near Topeka, KS was closed on Monday, July 25, 2011 after the police received reports of hazardous materials located inside a truck travelling on the highway. The incident actually started earlier in the day when 911 received a call reporting hazardous materials left in a room at the Ramada… read more
A routine traffic stop turned into a police chase and ended in a bus crash when the rider slammed into the back of a tour bus. The incident occurred in Frankly County, PA around 7:00 p.m. on Monday, August 1, 2011 when a trooper on State Route 997 noticed a rider who wasn’t wearing eye… read more
Authorities in Kansas City have ruled the death of 19-month-old Jermane Johnson Jr. an accident even though someone has admitted to holding his head underwater with intent to kill. This is because the someone in question is a 5-year-old girl. The 5-year-old told detectives that she pulled Jermane into the tub to drown him “because… read more
Over 2,000 motorcyclists got together at Mormon Lake on Friday, July 22, 2011 for the “Too Broke for Sturgis” rally sponsored by ABATE, a non-profit motorcycle rights organization. Before the night was out three were dead and one seriously injured in what police suspect was a murder-suicide… over food. It is believed that the people… read more
When Sandy Eversole of Colorado Springs visited the memorial near the intersection where her son David Mueller was killed by a drunk driver two years ago, she was met with an unpleasant surprise. Nearly all of the items that had been left at the memorial were gone save for the cross and a picture of… read more
