Wyoming is up to 73 fatalities for the year after six fatal accidents in the last week of July. And of those six accidents, four of them occurred between Friday, July 29 and Sunday, July 31. In comparison, the number of fatalities at the same time last year was 71, and the total for 2010… read more
A woman in Scranton, PA, is in prison after going on a hit-and-run spree that endangered not only the lives of the people she hit, it endangered the lives of the children in the car with her. On July 30, 2011 Mary Lukaitis, 32, of Scranton packed her kids into her blue Buick Rendezvous SUV… read more
Two people are now dead in another instance where a rider has decided that it’s better to lead police on a high-speed chase than pull over for a traffic stop. The events leading up to the crash started in Wellington, Utah around 11:00 p.m. on July 28, 2011 when Carbon County police tried to stop… read more
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
