SEATTLE — The Bellevue man accused of driving high on marijuana and killing a motorcyclist will be allowed out of jail, for now. But before that happened, Caleb Floyd had to hear from the victim’s mother. Floyd no longer has a $100,000 bail. It was vacated Thursday morning. Floyd is accused of smoking marijuana and…
OAK HARBOR, Ohio — The Ohio Highway Patrol has identified the third teenager killed Thursday morning in a two-vehicle crash in Salem Township. Joshua Coy, 19, of Oak Harbor died shortly after the 11 a.m. crash at Magruder Hospital in Port Clinton. Officials initially withheld Mr. Coy’s name because his family had not yet been…
HAYWARD, California — A California Highway Patrol officer died late Sunday night, and another was injured, when a speeding car drifted off the road and slammed into their stopped patrol car on the shoulder of southbound I-880. Police say the 22-year-old man was drunk when he plowed his red Cadillac into the officers, and may have…
DAYTON, Ohio — A coroner’s office says a driver killed when he drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 and crashed into a tanker truck full of gasoline had alcohol and marijuana in his system. The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office says 30-year-old Andrew T. Brunsman, of Centerville, died from multiple blunt force injuries in the April…
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A Scripps Ranch woman who was stoned when she drove into a vintage Porsche, killing a woman, received the maximum prison sentence Friday, three years after the fatal collision. Hyun Jeong Choi will serve 11 years, 8 months for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and DUI causing injury. Choi’s defense was that she had un9knowingly…
ALLEGAN, Mich. – A former Grand Rapids resident who now lives in North Carolina has been charged with Operating While Intoxicated by Drugs Causing Death in a fatal crash in Wayland in March. Read the full article here.
A woman who said she vaped with a cannabinoid oil, drank a beer and was still feeling the effects of a sleep aid and muscle relaxant is accused of plowing into two families with her SUV in Revere Sunday, killing a 5-year-old girl and critically injuring the tot’s baby sister, prosecutors said. Autumn L. Harris, 42,…
CALUMET CITY, Ill. (WLS) — Two people were killed, including an 18-year-old on his way home from an after-prom party, after a crash in south suburban Calumet City, police said. Aaron Dunigan was in a car with two other teens when their car slammed head-on into another car early Saturday morning, police said. Dunigan and the…
A Strongsville man was sentenced to 18-months in prison for causing an accident that killed a Brunswick man in June of last year. Timothy Bene, 27, received the sentence from Judge Nancy McDonnell on Monday morning. Bene pleaded guilty to one count each of vehicular homicide and tampering with evidence on February 7, 2012, related…
A man charged in a Shawano County for killing three teens in a vehicle crash in 2014 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with 30 years extended supervision. Ryan Swadner, 20, entered a plea to three counts of homicide while under the influence of a controlled substance and one count of causing injury while…
LAKE STEVENS — A Mill Creek man was killed and two other people were seriously injured Friday night in a four-vehicle crash on Highway 9. The head-on wreck happened about 10:45 p.m. just north of Highway 204. A man in a Subaru Impreza was northbound on Highway 9 when he reportedly began passing a 1990…