A trip to a routine medical appointment in Palo Alto turned fatal for a 56-year-old Pittsburg woman, who died after suffering major injuries when her ambulance crashed on University Avenue last week, police said Monday.
Alba Perez was being transported from Concord when the ambulance carrying her hit a tree and flipped onto its side, Palo Alto police Agent Dan Ryan said Monday.
Perez was critically injured and died Christmas Eve at Stanford Hospital, Read the rest of this entry »

Crews are still trying to determine the cause of a bus rollover in northern Arizona as the first victim leaves a Valley hospital.
On Friday, the driver of a tour bus headed back to Las Vegas from the sky walk at the Grand Canyon lost control on Interstate 93 at mile marker 28. Arizona police said the bus veered to the right and crossed the median, rolling at least once.
“It was very loud, like a bomb,” witness Shelia Larsen said. “Then after that, Read the rest of this entry »

A local medical group, facing a lawsuit over a car crash into Brockton Hospital that killed two people, is seeking to have the case quashed by a special court-appointed tribunal.
Compass Medical and four of its doctors are accused of failing to warn the elderly driver in the crash, a patient of theirs, against driving while medicated.
In a Plymouth County Superior Court filing Monday, Compass Medical denied all accusations of negligence and fault Read the rest of this entry »

NEWARK, N.J. – A
couple remains hospitalized one
day after their single-engine plane crashed and burst into flames
following takeoff in Linden.
University Hospital spokeswoman Tiffany Smith says pilot Jason
Snyder is in stable condition. His 34-year-old wife, Jennifer, is
in critical, but stable condition.
Their Beech Sundowner experienced unspecified mechanical
trouble, slammed into some trees and crashed in an industrial area
Sunday.
Linden Read the rest of this entry »

man was taken to a hospital after a weekend traffic crash in Chicago that led to his arrest on a drunken driving charge, authorities said Monday.
But medical personnel at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago discovered Jeffrey Hersh, 37, had a prong fired from a Taser in his torso, police said.
The Taser had been discharged Sunday by Des Plaines police who were trying to arrest a suspect accused of stealing from a liquor store, Read the rest of this entry »

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A minivan swerved across a road and collided with a school bus carrying high school students, sending 10 students and three other people to hospitals, the State Highway Patrol said.
None of the injuries to the students was serious, said a patrol spokesman, Lt. John Altman. All were treated at a hospital and released. Injuries to the two occupants of the minivan were serious, Altman said.
Elmer Johnson Jr., 32, and Angela Read the rest of this entry »

Ellendale — A crash that had roadways closed for three hours early this morning on South Union Church Road and killed a 40 year-old woman may have been caused by an impaired driver, police said.
Laura Rosario, 40, of Ellendale, passenger in the wreck, was pronounced dead at the scene close to 4:30 a.m.
After investigation, police believe the driver Carlos Garcia-Ortiz, 24, of Ellendale, may have been under the influence of drugs when he lost Read the rest of this entry »

Cheektowaga police shut down two lanes of the outbound Kensington Expressway for about five hours Tuesday after a two-car crash near the Pine Ridge Road exit.
The crash happened at about 10:50 a. m., and an ambulance passing near the scene was flagged down, said Rural/ Metro Medical Services spokesman Jay Smith.
A 93-year-old man driving a 1993 Buick tried to make a lane change, causing the crash, and both vehicles spun out, Cheektowaga Police Read the rest of this entry »

TOWNSHIP 13, RANGE 5, Maine (AP) — Game wardens say poor visibility and high speed were possible contributing factors in the death of a 15-year-old Windham teenager who was killed when he crashed his snowmobile into a tree in northern Maine.
Wardens says 15-year-old Kyle Rogers was among a group of eight snowmobilers riding on a trail west of Portage at the time of the crash at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Lt. Doug Tibbetts says the riders were contending Read the rest of this entry »

Assault: PM’s backyard searched Victoria fires: Arson accused wanted a wife Victoria fires: Arson accused wanted a wife” title=”Victoria fires: Arson accused wanted a wife” /> THE man charged with starting a fire which killed 21 people in Victoria was a volunteer in a brigade whose members risked death fighting the blaze. Grief: Day of mourning declared Police search PM’s backyard after assault POLICE have swarmed on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Brisbane Read the rest of this entry »