Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Queenstown Airport’s brand new fire truck R2 is ready for business.
After using the same old R1 fire truck for nearly 20 years, senior fire chief Bill Wrigley can’t wait to show off the nearly $1 million purchase imported from Austria.
“I started in 1988 at the same time we got the R1 truck, which will eventually be replaced by another new model,” Wrigley says.
“This new one is completely electric and can be operated just by touching the screen – no more pulling levers.”
The 23-tonne truck can go from 0-80kmh in under 30 seconds and handle all types of terrain.
It can pump out more than double the amount of water and foam of the old truck – 4000-5000 litres per minute, emptying the 6500-litre tank in a minute and a half.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
A 32-year-old Medina man was killed Saturday night when his truck rolled over off Erhart Road less than half a mile south of state Route 18 in York Township, the Medina post of the State Highway Patrol reported.
James E. Ventura was pronounced dead at the scene.
The highway patrol said Ventura, who was driving a 1994 Ford truck, drove off the left side of Erhart Road to avoid hitting a deer shortly after 8 p.m.
The truck hit a ditch and rolled onto its side.
Ventura was partially thrown from the vehicle and trapped underneath.
Two passengers, identified as Sabrina Ventura, 38, of Medina, and Jeffrey Flanik, 43, of Litchfield, were treated at the scene for minor injuries and released.
No one in the truck appeared to be wearing a seat belt, the highway patrol said.
Alcohol consumption before the crash is suspected, the highway patrol said in a release.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A man is crushed to death by a dump truck in southeast Travis County. Roger Wade with the Travis County Sheriff’s Department says the incident appears to be an accident. Wade says they are contacting OSHA since it happened at a work site. Wade says the name of the victim has not yet been released.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A four-vehicle accident tied up traffic for hours early Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Mesquite Boulevard and State Route 95.
Two of the four drivers involved were taken to Havasu Regional Medical Center for what is believed non life-threatening injuries, according to the Lake Havasu City Police Department.
The accident occurred at 10:45 a.m. when a 64-year-old man was speeding southbound on SR95 in an empty dump truck and attempted to stop at the Mesquite intersection and went into a spin, according to police. The truck crossed into the oncoming lane striking a 1994 Oldsmobile van driven by a 70-year-old woman, who had to be extricated from the vehicle and transported to the hospital. The driver of the dump truck also was injured.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A passenger bus collided with a pickup truck and a tractor-trailer rig in northeastern Arkansas, killing three people.
The Tornado Bus Co. bus was westbound on Interstate 40 about 10 p.m. Sunday when it veered across the median into eastbound lanes. State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said the bus slammed into the oncoming pickup, then the 18-wheeler slammed into the bus.
Arkansas authorities said the pickup’s driver Danny Okurily, 40, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was killed in the accident, as were two bus passengers. Their identities haven’t been released.
Bus driver Felix Tapia, 28, of Brownsville, Texas, and tractor-trailer driver David Rice, 45, of Mars Hill, North Carolina, suffered minor injuries.
State Police haven’t said how many others were injured, but Sadler says a Tornado Bus manifest listed 44 passengers and a driver aboard the bus headed from Chicago to Dallas. The accident happened 10 miles east of Forrest City.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A woman is dead after her car crossed the centre line of State Highway One and collided head-on with a truck and trailer unit last night.
Police said the accident happened just after midnight near the Bay of Plenty township of Atiamuri, about 25km south of Tokoroa.
The female driver, who was the sole occupant of the car, was killed instantly.
The truck driver was uninjured.
A section of SH1 was closed for nearly six hours overnight as a result of the crash,
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A 55-year-old woman died after a loose flatbed trailer slammed into her car Wednesday.
The crash happened on Highway 99W. Police said the trailer came loose from a truck and crossed the center line.
The truck driver, 23-year-old of Eugene and his two passengers were not hurt.
State police were investigating.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A Lindale woman escaped serious injury Sunday afternoon after her Chevy truck overturned on Short Horn Road.
Floyd County police said Kristie Packer, 29, of a Lindale address was driving east on Short Horn Road when she lost control of the truck and it overturned.
Police had to remove the windshield to get her out. She was not seriously hurt and did not require an ambulance.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
The Peoria police officer injured in a two-vehicle accident over the weekend has been released from a local hospital and likely will return to duty next week.
The truck’s driver, Mitchell E. Slock, 43, of 1811 W. Kingsway Drive, Apt. E1 was heading east on Willow Knolls when he failed to yield to the emergency vehicle, witnesses told police.
Slock and his passenger, his wife, Leanne F. Slock, 43, were taken to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center for treatment. Mitchell Slock was listed in fair condition Monday; Leanne Slock was released the same day of the accident.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A semitrailer carrying a load of logs overturned and collided with western Indiana couple’s pickup truck, killing both of them, authorities said.
man,59, and his 58-year-old wife, Joyce, died in Friday’s accident along Indiana 63. The Prairie Creek couple’s bodies were not identified by the Vigo County coroner until Saturday.
Vigo County police said a semitrailer carrying a load of logs failed to negotiate a curve on Indiana 63 and overturned near New Harmony Cemetery, colliding with the Strains’ truck.
Firefighters used the jaws of life to retrieve the couple’s bodies from their truck at the crash scene a few miles southwest of Terre Haute.
A second pickup truck that was traveling about 50 feet behind the Strains’ truck when the accident occurred was able to avoid the trailer, but still hit some of the logs.
The driver of the semitrailer was taken to Terre Haute Regional Hospital where he was treated and released, according to a Vigo County Sheriff’s Department news release.
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