Cops: Child thrown to death on freeway
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A man wearing hospital scrubs threw a toddler 30 feet from a pedestrian overpass onto a major highway Thursday, and the boy was later pronounced dead, authorities said.
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At least 12 tons of concrete collapsed onto a car in a Big Dig tunnel, fatally crushing a passenger and prompting renewed scrutiny Tuesday of a troubled highway project that is already the costliest in U.S. history. The state attorney general said he plans to treat the site as a crime scene that could lead to negligent homicide charges.
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Police will ask prosecutors to press unspecified charges against the teen driver in last month's car crash that killed two 18-year-old passengers in Gary, Indiana, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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A man was arrested in the beating death of a passenger riding in a car that struck and injured a toddler, and more arrests were likely, police said.
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The increasing number of young people being killed on the roads is to be discussed by police and motoring groups.
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One man is arrested after a 14-year-old girl dies after being hit by a car in south Belfast, police say.
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At least six people were killed and 29 injured on Friday when a bus carrying a U.S. university baseball team fell off an overpass onto a freeway, a police spokesman in Atlanta said.
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A head-on collision between a pickup truck going the wrong way on an interstate and a minivan killed five people in the minivan, including an infant, a fire department spokesman said Monday.
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A teenager is killed and three others are seriously hurt in a crash between a car and a police vehicle.
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HERKIMER, NY -- State police said Friday they may never know what pushed a former NFL player to lead them on a dramatic highway chase ending with a fiery head-on crash that took his life.
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Texas police seek witnesses to the fatal beating of a passenger in a car, the driver of which apparently hit a child.
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Police shot and killed a woman on a busy roadway Tuesday after she walked into traffic with a child and threatened passing drivers with a knife, authorities said.
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SEATTLE - After eight days, Laura Hatch's family had almost given the 17-year-old up for dead, and sheriff's deputies had all but written her off as a runaway. Then she was found, badly hurt and severely dehydrated, but alive and conscious, in the back seat of a crumpled car, 200 feet down a ravine...
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 14--WHAT WE KNEW: A 16-year-old Holmen, Wis., boy stood mute to a charge of second-degree reckless homicide in juvenile court Sept. 6 stemming from an April car crash that killed a Holmen High School sophomore.
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Police are investigation the case of a baby who died after being sent home from hospital with Calpol.
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PLEASANTON, Calif. - The perils of parenting apparently can be discovered through a classroom project.  A startled 17-year-old girl swerved her car into a freeway guardrail and slammed into a pickup truck after the realistic-sounding baby doll in her care suddenly began to cry.
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One worker was killed and three critically injured on Friday when a platform fell as they attempted to repair a highway overpass, police said.