Eastbound Interstate 90, which was closed after a collision Friday morning between a semi truck and a car, reopened at 2 p.m., according to the Washington State Patrol. The crash happened around 10:15 a.m. just past Issaquah. Witnesses reported that the driver of a Toyota Camry lost control of her vehicle, swerved across the freeway […]
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ROCKFORD — A Dixon woman has sued two Rock River Valley companies and a dump truck driver after her husband was killed at Winnebago Landfill when he was buried under several tons of construction materials. An attorney for Dixon resident Tina Trevino filed the wrongful death lawsuit on July 21 against Belvidere-based Landmark Excavating Inc.,
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Of the dozens of vehicles — small S.U.V.s and midsize cars — whose headlights the insurance institute has tested this year, only one has been rated “good.” That was a 2016 Toyota Prius V. The best any others could muster was merely “acceptable,’’ and many fared much worse. There’s at least one reason for the
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An SUV ended up on its nose between two other cars Tuesday in Puyallup after its driver flipped it into a Starbucks drive-thru, according to a Pierce County Sheriff’s Department Facebook post. No one was injured. A 42-year-old woman drove the SUV through an intersection in the South Hill neighborhood, hit the curb and multiple
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Red light camera programs in 79 large U.S. cities saved nearly 1,300 lives through 2014, researchers from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have found. Shutting down such programs costs lives, with the rate of fatal red-light-running crashes shooting up 30 percent in cities that have turned off cameras. Red-light-running crashes caused 709 deaths in
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Tesla Motors has told Senate investigators that its crash-prevention system failed to work properly in a fatal crash, but said its Autopilot technology was not at fault, according to a Senate staff member. Instead, Tesla told members of the Senate Commerce Committee staff on Thursday that the problem involved the car’s automatic braking system, said
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A jury has found the California Department of Transportation 90 percent responsible for the 2010 death of a 62-year-old man who was struck by a car in an El Camino Real crosswalk in Atherton. After a two-week trial in San Mateo County Superior Court, the jury on July 25 awarded the family of Chris Chandler
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The parents of late actor Anton Yelchin plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit after he was found pinned between a brick pillar and security fence and his SUV in June, a report revealed Monday. Investigators said the 27-year-old “Star Trek” actor was killed June 19 after his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled backward into
The city has agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Avonte Oquendo, the autistic student whose body was found in the East River several months after he fled from his Queens school, the Daily News has learned. The suit accused officials at the school and the
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When you are driving, how often do you see other drivers checking their phones while behind the wheel? And, be honest, how often do you do it yourself? The problem has gotten so big that highways across the country now regularly warn drivers “Don’t text and drive.” And 46 states and the District of Columbia
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