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At least five young children lost their mothers in an automobile accident Saturday night, just minutes before Mother's Day.

VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Maltese dog that disappeared more than a year ago after a fatal car crash in New Mexico has been returned to surviving family members in Michigan. The crash in June last year killed Gary Benson and his daughter, Emily. Afterward, his wife and four surviving children searched unsuccessfully for the family pet named Caesar.

Remember when SUVS drew consumer focus over rollover worries? Well, a study says SUVs are safer than ever, and tiny cars are the most likely to result in a fatality. That's one of the lessons from the latest edition of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Status Report, which tracks car crash and mortality statistics. The good news is that car crash deaths are down overall: Between 2006 and 2009, the death rate for drivers of 2005-08 models was just 48 people per million registered vehicle years (defined as a vehicle registered for a year, or two vehicles registered for...

CINCINNATI -- Police said a woman was legally drunk when she drove with a man on the hood of her car before crashing into a concrete wall. Ebony Martin, 28, was charged with aggravated vehicular assault in connection with the incident, which occurred on Dec. 23. Charges were only filed Wednesday.

-SNIP- ...Investigators believe Field's husband became upset during a heated argument and violently attacked her. He left the house, but lost control of his vehicle on slippery pavement about four blocks away and crashed head-on into a tree in the 4600 block of Carson. -END SNIP-

~ EXCERPT ~ A man thought to be the first person in the world to drive a car using a mind-controlled robotic limb has been serious hurt in a car crash in Austria, according to local media. Christian Kandlbauer, 22, was found in the wreckage of his Subaru, which caught fire after smashing into a tree. "Looking at the state of the wreck, it's a miracle he got out at all," a police officer was reported as saying. It is not known whether his bionic arm played any role in the accident.

BURBANK, Calif. (KABC) -- Police were still trying to figure out the motives of a man who drove his car through the security gates at Warner Brothers studio Friday afternoon with a trunk full of liquid explosives. The driver, 43-year-old Michael Rodriguez-Cintron, burst through Gate 5 at around 3:30 p.m. and then proceeded to drive in circles around the lot. Studio security pulled him over for trespassing, but when they searched his trunk they found a duffel bag with liquid explosives in it and an replica firearm, which drew the attention of the bomb squad.

BULLETIN -- NEW YORK POLICE AND FBI RAID HOMES IN QUEENS IN TERRORISM INVESTIGATION.6 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters

SNIPPET: "U.S. counterterrorism officials have linked one of the nation's most wanted terrorists to last year's thwarted plot to bomb the New York City subway system, authorities said Wednesday. Current and former counterterrorism officials said top al-Qaida operative Adnan Shukrijumah met with one of the would-be suicide bombers in a plot that Attorney General Eric Holder called one of the most dangerous since the 9/11 terror attacks."

A pregnant bride-to-be has been killed in a horror crash on the way to her Las Vegas wedding. Kristen Kay Taylor was killed when the car she was driving was rear-ended by a truck in a 13-car pileup near Cedar City in the US state of Utah late last week, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Ms Taylor, 25, was driving her Kia Spectra with fiance Gregory Bennin on Interstate 15 and slowed down when the truck in front of her crashed into several cars during a snowstorm. Just moments later another truck ploughed into the rear of the couple’s car,...

Officers of the Moscow Traffic Safety Inspectorate documented a bizarre car accident, which took place in Russia’s capital on November 29 at night. The accident occurred because of a B.A.S.E. jumper. The car accident took place in Moscow’s north on Sunday night. The B.A.S.E. jumper was jumping off a high-rise building on Moscow’s Khodynsky Boulevard. The man miscalculated the trajectory of his flight and landed on a Land Rover vehicle that was traveling along the street. In addition to the driver, there was a woman and a child on the back seat of the vehicle. The extreme jumper, a 31-year-old...

A man whose friend was teaching him how to drive crashed a minivan into a Lanham area apartment Monday, injuring a resident who was sitting inside, authorities said. The crash occurred just after 10 a.m. at a three-story garden-style apartment building in the 9700 block of Good Luck Road, authorities said. A 46-year-old man sitting inside his apartment was hit by flying bricks and hospitalized for a leg injury that was not life-threatening, according to authorities, and was expected to be released Monday. The two men in the van were uninjured, authorities said. Authorities said nearly all of the van...

We should every year remember the true story of Mary Jo's death, and how it revealed the true "character" of one Edward M Kennedy.

(CNN) -- Five young men died Saturday when the car they were in drove off the end of a private airstrip near Ocala, Florida, became airborne for 200 feet and slammed into an oak tree, authorities said. "This had to be the worst vehicle crash that I have ever seen during my career," said Randy Robinson, a spokesman for the Emergency Medical Services Alliance with 27 years on the job. The 2008 BMW was split in two in the wreck, which happened at 3:45 a.m., said Lt. Mike Burroughs, a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol Troop B. He told...

"Paulo Melo, 29, has been in a coma at the Royal Darwin Hospital for two weeks, after severing his spinal cord in a car crash." - read more below: doctor requested, family objected, court granted

DALLAS -- A wounded Iraq veteran and his wife have lost a third child from injuries the boy suffered in a car accident on the way to visit his father in the hospital. Three weeks after his siblings died in an Oct. 13 accident on the gusty West Texas plains, 9-year-old Tyler Johnson died Saturday at Children's Medical Center Dallas. Army Spc. John Austin Johnson was waiting for his wife, Lisa, and their three kids to visit him at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio when the deadly crash occurred on Interstate 10 about 12 miles east of Ozona....

PNG magistrate stoned to death for car crash (Reuters) 22 October 2007 PORT MORESBY - A court magistrate in Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific was stoned to death after his car crashed into a refugee camp in the capital Port Moresby, local media reported on Monday. The Post Courier newspaper said senior magistrate Ivo Cappo was killed on Saturday night when he lost control of his car as he drove home from a hotel, and ran into the camp on Ela Beach. None of the refugees were injured, but when Cappo got out of his car to inspect...

Iran's minister of justice has been killed in a car crash, state media reports December 28, 2006 TEHRAN, Iran: Justice Minister Jamal Karimirad was killed in a car accident in central Iran on Thursday, Iranian state television reported. Karimirad, 50, was motoring with his family from Tehran to the central city of Isfahan when the car crashed in the district of Salafjegan, 170 kilometers (106 miles) south of Tehran, the television announcer said. The broadcast gave no details of the accident, but said that members of his family had been admitted to hospital in the city of Qom. It did...

Most drivers have done it - fiddled with a CD, talked on a cell phone or scolded a child while behind the wheel, getting momentarily distracted from the road. But a Yonkers woman who tried another mundane task while driving - putting on her makeup - paid a terrible price yesterday when she lost control of her car on the Henry Hudson Parkway in the Bronx and slammed into a tree, police said. Lusaed Perez, 34, went into cardiac arrest and later died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, police said. "There was makeup all over the air bag," said...

A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday. No injuries were reported, although the vehicles involved were slightly damaged, it said. The woman, identified only be her surname, Li, said her dog "was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive,'' according to Xinhua.

Her son, 3 others rammed in DWI BY RICHARD WEIR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER The mother of a young bouncer mowed down by an alleged drunken teen who drove his Jaguar into a crowd outside the Glen Cove Golf Club said yesterday that seeing her son in the hospital is "heartbreaking." Maureen Basdavanos spoke before the arraignment of 19-year-old Sayed Khaled El-Waraky, the Virginia college student accused of turning his luxury car into a weapon and plowing it into her son, Sean, 22, and three other young men. Sean Basdavanos of Glen Cove, a part-time bouncer at the golf club's...

SHOULD have brought a life vest and snorkel, Teddy. Sen. Ted Kennedy was having a ball reading to a captive roomful of New York City third-graders yesterday when suddenly a dangerous question spewed out of the mouths of babes. "When was your most embarrassing moment with Splash?" a pint-sized jokester from PS 11 in Chelsea asked Ted. The kid was asking about Splash - Teddy's black Portuguese water dog who, at that very moment, sat quietly at Ted's feet, along with another pooch named Sunny. But the adults in the room could not help but think about "splash." As in...

by Mark Finkelstein May 6, 2006 Let's imagine it was, oh, Karl Rove who had been involved in a car accident under circumstances identical to those surrounding Patrick Kennedy. Think the Today show would be focusing on his 'courage' and largely taking at face value his claim that prescription medicines caused the crash? Or would they be asking another question: was Kennedy telling the truth when he claimed that no alcohol was involved? That 'Today' was in a decidedly forgiving mood was clear from the show's very opening. Note the graphic Today attached to Kennedy's image: "Seeking Treatment". Not "Telling...

MIDI - ALWAYS A WOMAN Patrick's out late at night...he was driving impaired Everyone who was nearby was certainly scared He had smashed up his car and although that was bad At least there was not a dead woman like there was with dad When he was in his teens he was hooked on cocaine Like all Kennedys, for the law there is disdain He had smashed up his car and although that was bad Well, at least there was not a dead woman like there was with dad Why is he getting a pass...one more Kennedy slides...it is...

ROCHESTER, NY (2006-02-13) A Hamlin woman died Monday afternoon at Strong Memorial Hospital after she was hurt in a two-car crash Sunday night in western Monroe County. The Monroe County Sheriff's Department says a car missed a stop sign at Hamlin-Clarkson Townline Road and Route 19, and hit a car driven by 51-year-old Maria Lester. Lester was taken to Strong in critical condition, where she later died. The driver who failed to stop was Crombel Cruz-Sipreanas of Redman Road. He was ticketed for leaving the scene and driving without a license. The U.S. Border Patrol. put a detainer on him...

Thom Hickling, an offbeat evangelical who influenced the Christian community in Pittsburgh through his creation of Expression newspaper and the His Place television show, died yesterday in a car crash in Zambia. Mr. Hickling, 51, was visiting his daughter, Holly, 23 who was doing mission work in a refugee camp in that African nation. Her leg was broken in the crash and she is to fly back to Pittsburgh tomorrow. His body is still in Zambia. Services will eventually be held in Pittsburgh and in Baltimore, where he had lived since 1997. Mr. Hickling, his daughter, and another worker from...

Woman Crashes Car Into Swimming Pool September 23, 2005 By KOMO Staff BELLEVUE - A test drive in a car ended with a big splash and a daring rescue in Bellevue Friday morning, after a woman somehow drove the car into a swimming pool. Police say it was just before 8 a.m. when 911 dispatchers began receiving calls that car had driven into the community pool at the Racquet Club Estates in northern Bellevue. When police and firefighters arrived, they found the 20-year-old driver was still trapped inside the car. Firefighters dove into the water and broke the car's sunroof...

Car crash woman 'already dead' June 27, 2005 A YOUNG mother found at the scene of a car crash near Tokyo in which her husband and infant son were killed had already been dead for at least a day before the accident happened, police said overnight. The bizarre discovery was made after emergency crews who rushed to the scene found the body of Rie Ishikawa, 28, already in a state of rigor mortis, Kyodo news agency reported. The family car crashed early yesterday on a highway in Sawara, Chiba Prefecture. Ishikawa's husband, Masayuki, 32, survived the initial crash after the...

Victorian Police are describing a freakish accident in far-east Gippsland this morning as something out of a Hollywood movie. Two workmen were driving their twin-cab utility to the Mallacoota Airport when the car hit a wombat crossing the road. Senior Constable Mark Tregellas says the car then crashed through a guard rail and became airborne off the side of the bridge. "And landed on a tree that was about 20 feet above the creek across from the bridge," he said. "They teetered there and basically fell off the tree into the creek. "The car was completely totalled and surprisingly both...

Television New Zealand is being sued for $115,000 by car-crash victims who were horrified to watch their ordeal being replayed on a "reality" TV show. Gary Robert Andrews and his wife Penny had to be prised by firefighters from their car after it crashed into a paddock off the Southern Motorway on December 21, 2002. The Auckland couple were filmed by Greenstone Pictures while trapped in the vehicle and as they were being removed, at which point Mr Andrews was unconscious and his wife was trying to speak to him. The couple have told the High Court that their permission...

<p>In dense afternoon fog Wednesday, about 200 cars smashed into one another in a series of crashes that killed two people and left mangled vehicles piled up over a seven-mile stretch.</p> <p>The crash - mid-Michigan's worst in recent history - shut down all lanes of Interstate 96 from U.S. 127 to beyond Webberville. A total of 37 people, including three with severe injuries, were taken to three hospitals.</p>

BRICK, N.J. (AP) — A woman gave birth in the back of a car on the way to a hospital, but the vehicle then left the road and struck a utility pole, killing her husband. The newborn boy was in critical condition Thursday, and the mother, 22-year-old Atara Sasoon, was listed as fair. The car crashed Wednesday about a mile from the hospital in the Jersey Shore town of Brick. Binyhmin Sasoon, 22, was found slumped over the steering wheel and was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife was apparently ejected from the car and was able to stop...

HAINES CITY, Fla. - Three recent N.C. high school graduates were killed and a fourth critically injured Saturday when their car drove into the path of a tractor-trailer, authorities said. Authorities identified the victims as Terron Chu Davis, 18, of Winston-Salem; Ryan Byerly, 18, of Clemmons; and Sean Maxwell, 18. Maxwell's hometown was not immediately known. Bryan Staley of Lexington was in critical condition Saturday at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. The teens were vacationing in Orlando to celebrate their graduation from North Davidson Senior High School in Lexington Davis, who was driving a 1996 Buick, made a left turn at...

Car crashes into Carrollton house 02/17/2003 From Staff Reports A late night joyride turned out to be anything but for a 13-year-old Carrollton girl. She and the family dog took her older sister's car without permission Sunday night. The vehicle crashed into the front room of a neighbor's house in the 3700 block of Woodside Road around midnight. BRYAN TITSWORTH / WFAA-TV Emergency crews used a chain to remove the sedan from the house. More then half the sedan ended up in an office area; the homeowners had gone to bed a few minutes earlier. No one was hurt....

SIX MILE, Ala. -- Two sisters driving separate vehicles on a rural highway collided head-on, killing both women as they went to see each other. State troopers identified the victims as Sheila Wentworth, 45, and her older sister, Doris Jean Hall, 51. Hall's husband, Billy Joe Hall Jr., 45, also was killed. A child riding in each vehicle was injured. Authorities said the women were driving Jeeps in opposite directions on Alabama 25 about 4 p.m. Sunday when one of the vehicles crossed the center line, colliding with the other vehicle. Trooper Cpl. Stan Lemon said Monday investigators were trying...

MACHIAS — A Washington County Superior Court judge has postponed a decision in the case of a former Alexander man who used cocaine while on probation for a 1994 car crash that killed a friend and the man’s three young children. Justice Nancy Mills said she wanted more time to review a pre-sentencing report for 30-year-old Ellis “Jamie” MacArthur and the letters of support his defense attorney said would show MacArthur’s progress since he was released from prison in January 2001. Mills did not indicate when she would continue the hearing, but said it would take place in Washington...