A 12-year-old boy critically injured in a high-speed, wrong way crash last December has died, and a woman has been charged. Endrina Bracho was reportedly driving 75 miles per hour when she struck a Jeep driven by the family of Travis J. Wolfe on December 20. The boy was taken to St. Louis Children’s Hospital …
A 14-year-old allegedly stole their family car and later crashed it into a traffic pole, where it burst into flames and killed a teenage passenger. According to KTLA, police officers noticed the Toyota driving without headlights shortly after midnight Tuesday morning. They made verbal contact with the driver, but instead of stopping, they took off …
The woman’s baby survived but was in critical condition, as were two other occupants of the car.
A California Marine lance corporal has been charged with vehicular manslaughter after he crashed a truck he stole from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar while fleeing police, killing a passenger in the vehicle. John Eugene Brand, 21, was also charged with kidnapping, evading police with wanton disregard for safety, evading police causing serious injury or …
A 9-month-old baby boy was orphaned in a three-vehicle car crash in Ohio earlier this month. Samantha Hammons, 55, has been charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide in the deaths of the boy’s parents, Jacob Hahn and Savannah Harding on December 9, WTOL reports. According to court documents, Hammons was under the influence …
Investigators identified the couple who died in Wednesday’s crash at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing as Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani. The Villanis were from Grand Island, and both were 53, Niagara Falls Police said. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Villanis vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, hit a curb and went …
The FBI announced Wednesday night that it had finished its investigation into the airborne car crash at the Rainbow International Bridge in Niagara Falls and concluded there was no terrorism involved. The agency’s Buffalo field office said that no explosive materials were found on the scene and that it had turned the investigation over to …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that there was no evidence a car crash and explosion at a Niagara Falls border crossing was terrorism, nor have any explosive devices been found at the scene. “At this time, there is no indication of a terrorist attack,” Hochul said, according to NBC News. “Let me repeat …
A 3-year-old child was killed overnight in Houston when an argument between the driver of an SUV and her possibly drunk passenger ended in a rollover crash. According to KTRK, police said the crash happened just before midnight on State Highway 288. Five other children, including a 7-year-old and a 3-month old — were also …
Four people died Friday night in a fiery crash when the SUV they had stolen earlier in an armed carjacking crashed into a tree and burst into flames. The Prince George’s County Police Department said it was working to identify the victims of the crash, but the “severity of the burn injuries” was hindering the …
San Francisco’s district attorney has declined to file formal charges — for now — against two suspects in an alleged carjacking last weekend that ended in a spectacular crash on the city’s Sanchez Street steps in the Castro District and was caught on surveillance video. Kevin Nelson, 36, and Jennifer Bonham 31, were arrested Tuesday …
An Ohio boy playing in the yard of an apartment building was struck and killed by a stolen car Saturday night. Columbus police said the 4-year-old was with his mother in the grassy area behind the building in the South Franklinton neighborhood just before 9 p.m. when the Kia jumped a curb and hit him. …
