Traffic-Related Deaths

A 17-year-old is under home confinement facing charges in the crash that killed six family members in North Texas last year. Watch the video here.

BUCKHANNON, W.Va (WDTV) – One man is dead and one woman was seriously injured after a crash in Buckhannon on April 7. Police say Matthew Whitehead was driving while high on medical marijuana before crashing into a sedan at the intersection of Highway 33 and Kesling Mill Road. When officers arrived, they say Whitehead had…

Officials identified the driver of a U-Haul truck accused of killing a University of Delaware student and injuring seven other people in a chain-reaction crash in Newark, Delaware, on Tuesday. Gordon Turner, 22, of New Castle, Delaware, was arrested and charged with murder – death caused during commission of a felony, murder – reckless conduct showing indifference…

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With an increase in cannabis-impaired driving fatalities, the story of Howard and Polli Small remains prevalent. Howard and Polli Small’s son, Ethan, was a 28-year-old go-getter finding his way in the world. He had recently launched his own social media consulting business and drove for a rideshare company on the side. January 19, 2019, Ethan…

A driver involved in the fatal Florida bus crash has told police he smoked cannabis oil the night before the collision, according to an arrest report. Police say Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, sideswiped a bus carrying dozens of farm workers with his vehicle. The Tuesday morning accident killed at least eight people and injured dozens….

OCALA, Fla. − A man told investigators that he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before his pickup truck sideswiped a bus, killing eight farmworkers, in Florida, according to an arrest affidavit.  Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, was charged with eight counts of DUI manslaughter after the collision Tuesday killed eight people and injured dozens more. The…

REVERE (CBS) — A two-month-old baby has died days after a crash in Revere that already killed her sister. On Sunday evening, two adult women, a five-year-old girl, a two-year-old child, and a two-month-old girl were “on a sidewalk inside the median strip that divides both sides of Route 145” when an SUV driven by…

The three high-school students killed in an early morning crash in Lynnwood on Wednesday have been identified by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office. The victims are Landon M. Staley, 16, of Everett; Travin K. Nelson-Phongphiou, 16, of Everett; and Mikayla Sorenson, 15, of Bothell. The cause of death for each was listed as multiple blunt-force injuries,…

TACOMA,Wash. — The 23-year-old man arrested in an Interstate 5 crash in Lakewood that killed three people smoked marijuana and took the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in the hours before the fatalities and was looking at his phone just before the incident, court documents say. Court documents say the man, identified as Montrell Red, routinely uses both drugs…

Before sentencing the 27-year-old driver who was high on medical marijuana when he struck and killed a Portland bicyclist, Judge Michael Greenlick talked to him about the dangers of driving under the influence of pot — medicinal or not. “One of the things that greatly concerned me when marijuana was legalized … was that we’d see…

Families of three teenagers who were killed in a Jan. 11 car crash expressed anguished sorrow about the loss of their children during sentencing of the driver. Around 90 people packed the Kitsap juvenile courtroom on Feb. 19 to listen as the families broke down in tears as they spoke about their lost children, Kassidy…