CHAMPAIGN (DDN) – This weekend, three persons were admitted to regional hospitals following separate early-morning shootings. At 1:19 a.m. on Saturday, police working a downtown assignment responded to gunfire near Main and Fremont streets. In a vehicle, they discovered a 42-year-old Rantoul lady with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg. She is still in stable...
URBANA, Ill. (DDN) – An early-morning accident kills one woman, and authorities are looking for the driver. Urbana Police were dispatched to the intersection of University Ave. and Coler Ave. shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday. According to police, the 20-year-old lady was one of five individuals in a Honda Civic that was rear-ended by a Mitsubishi...
DDN – The Chattanooga Police Department responded to a call at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, January 18, reporting a body in the center of Highway 153 in front of Northgate Mall. According to Sergeant Thomas Seiter, a person wearing dark clothing was struck by northbound cars while attempting to cross the street, resulting in death....
CRESTVIEW, Fla (DDN) – According to the Crestview Fire Department, a collision involving two semi-trucks that occurred on eastbound Interstate 10 is causing substantial delays on Friday into the afternoon. A statement on Facebook by the Chicago Fire Department stated that the accident took place close to the Holt Exit and featured an entrapment. According...
DDN – According to officials with the Burlington Police Department, one individual died in a major crash in the Piedmont Triad. Around 10:30 a.m. on Friday, police responded to a two-vehicle accident at the junction of NC-87 and South Mebane Street. Two of the drivers involved in the collision suffered serious injuries. A Chevrolet SUV...
DDN – A van containing numerous children flipped multiple times during a crash on I-75 on Friday. Around 11:40 a.m., Montgomery County deputies were dispatched to I-75 southbound near Needmore Road for an injury crash. A box truck driven by an 82-year-old man attempted to merge into the contraflow lane from the center lane when...
DETROIT (DDN) – On Friday evening, a crash occurred on the east side of Detroit, and a baby was left behind at the scene of the accident. The infant was sent to a local hospital for treatment of injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening, as reported by the Detroit police. In the vicinity of...
DDN – A New York City bus driver misjudged a curve and smashed into a low stone wall near an overpass on Friday morning, bringing the vehicle to a halt with its front end hanging over the road below, according to authorities. There were no injuries. A Fire Department spokesman stated that the driver was...
HYDE COUNTY, N.C(DDN) – The North Carolina Department of Public Safety reports that two men lost their lives in the early hours of Friday morning when their truck flipped over and were buried in water. Troopers from the state reacted to the crash that occurred on state game properties in Hyde County shortly after two...
DDN – A dump truck plowed into the side of a Target store in New Jersey on Friday afternoon, shattering part of the building’s wall and creating a massive hole. According to authorities, the incident occurred near the North Bergen Target store on Tonnelle Avenue, blocking the road in both directions between 70th and 76th...