Randal Staggs, 52, Colorado Springs, died when his motorcycle collided with a car shortly before 9:00 p.m. on Friday, June 18, 2011. The accident occurred at the intersection of 31st Street and West Colorado Avenue in Colorado Springs, CO. Staggs was driving a 1983 Honda motorcycle, heading west on Colorado Avenue when he collided with… read more
A Colorado mother was arrested on Friday, June 17, 2011 on suspicion of child abuse following the death of her 22-month-old on May 28, 2011. Karen Pena, 30, was surfing Facebook when the toddler, Laniece Fletcher, was struck by a van in her apartment complex. The van, which transports children with disabilities to a local… read more
An anonymous donated pledged $4 million dollars to the University of Kansas to fund spinal cord injury research. The school will divide the money between two groups in the Medical Centers Research Facility, the Institute for Neurological Disorders. The first team, Led by Dr. Peter Smith of the Spinal Cord Injuries Repair Programs, is responsible… read more
Greg Beene, 34, of Joliet, also known as “One Leg Greg,” is seeking to represent the United States as a cyclist in the London Paralympic Games in 2012. Beene, who is currently in training, lost his leg in a motorcycle accident on August 12, 2003. At the time of the accident, Beene was riding a… read more
Irvil West, 73, of Marysville, KS, is dead after a single-vehicle motorcycle accident on June 16, 2011. The accident occurred on U.S. 71 three miles north of Sheldon, in Vernon County at 1:40 p.m. West was driving south when he went off the east side of the road, crossed the median and overturned. Emergency personnel… read more
Ryan Dunn, 34, star of “Jackass” was killed in an automobile accident early on Monday, June 20, 2011. The crash occurred on route 322 in West Goshen, PA when Dunn’s Porche flew over a guardrail and flew through about 40 feet of trees before hitting another tree head-on. The vehicle exploded on impact. Dunn’s passenger… read more
A bus transporting a youth marching band crashed on Monday, June 6, 2011. The bus was travelling on Interstate 80, near Minden, Iowa, from Wyoming to Indiana when it blew a tire around 7:45 a.m., skidded off the interstate and landed on its side in a field. Most of the passengers were asleep when the… read more
Drug charges against former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison, from an arrest on February 17, 2011 have been dropped because the arresting officer died in a motorcycle accident. Morrison was arrested at the Kansas Turnpike service area four miles north of Emporia and charged with possession of hallucinogenic drugs with two prior convictions, a felony,… read more
An unidentified Fort Carson man, 25, is dead after a rollover crash on Monarch Pass, Sunday, June 12, 2011. Two other passengers in the car sustained minor injuries. The accident occurred at 2:35 a.m. on U.S. 50, 23 miles west of Salida. Cody Katcher, 19, of Fort Carson was driving a 2010 Toyota Camry when… read more
An unidentified South Lyon man, 44, suffered “severe trauma” from a motorcycle crash on the evening of Tuesday, June 14, 2011. The accident occurred at about 6:40 p.m. when the man lost control of his 1999 Honda Shadow VT 750 as he tried to negotiate a curve in the 13000 block of Nine Mile Road,… read more
