Authorities arrested two 16-year-old boys who led detectives on a high-speed pursuit that ended Tuesday afternoon with a crash and a car fire on a busy stretch of Highway 50 in Sacramento, sheriff’s officials said. Investigators recovered three guns at the scene of the crash after the two teens displayed “complete reckless behavior,” streaming themselves […]
A 19-year-old was arrested and faces three charges of manslaughter after a high-speed crash killed a pregnant woman and her son Friday night, Amarillo police said. The Amarillo Police Department (APD) said Amarillo officers were sent to the site of a major crash at the intersection of West Amarillo Boulevard and North Florida Street at […]
Two men died in a high-speed car crash on a road just off Highway 111 in Palm Desert on Friday morning, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies responded around 6 a.m. Friday to a report of a single-car collision at the intersection of Painters Path and Fred Waring Drive in Palm Desert, near […]
Multiple suspects were arrested after a high-speed chase through Los Angeles and Orange counties on Friday night. The suspects were initially wanted for reckless driving, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. In a blue sedan, the suspect hit speeds of over 100 miles per hour on the freeway, at times narrowly missing nearby vehicles. […]
Nearly two years after a Nixa teen’s Dodge Charger reportedly collided with a family’s minivan as he was being pursued by authorities, the Christian County Sheriff’s Office is facing a negligence lawsuit for the fatal incident. Zachary Fargo, who was 16 at time of the crash, faces a charge of second-degree felony murder after allegedly […]
A reckless driver suspected of being under the influence was arrested after a high-speed pursuit that spanned L.A. and Orange counties Tuesday night. Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s East L.A. Station initiated the pursuit, but soon requested officers with the California Highway Patrol take it over. The suspect led authorities on a […]
Jacques Cooper, who has died aged 93, was the French designer of British origin behind the distinctive aerodynamic orange TGV high-speed train, a source of intense national pride in France since it entered service in 1981. Previously Cooper had designed shopping malls, tractors, helicopters, metro trains for Santiago and Cairo, locomotives for China and the […]
Around 3:41 a.m. Saturday morning, Olympia Police tried to stop a suspect with warrants when he sped away. According to police, the driver was driving suspiciously and without lights leading police to suspect impaired driving. The suspect fled on Interstate 5 leading police through unincorporated Pierce County, Lakewood, and Tacoma. Pursuing police backed off to […]
Gif: Airbus / YouTube Airbus flew its strange helicopter-airplane hybrid called Racer for the first time in Marseille, France on Monday. The aerospace manufacturer categorizes the aircraft as a high-speed compound helicopter demonstrator. Unlike conventional helicopters, the Racer features fixed wings with control surfaces and propulsive propellers. The maiden flight was only 30 minutes long […]
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– A high-speed chase on the Pennsylvania Turnpike over the weekend ended in the Harrisburg area when the driver crashed, according to Troopers. Schnyder Levasseur, 25, of Philadelphia, told State Police “I got loud exhaust” and “I didn’t want a ticket” when he was being taken into custody after the high-speed chase […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — One person was killed after being involved in a traffic collision on Saturday night. On May 11, the California Highway Patrol responded to a fatal collision near Sherwood Avenue and northbound Highway 99 just after 8:20 p.m. According to the CHP Traffic Information page, one vehicle involved in the crash rolled […]
Ashley Brown was roughly 27 weeks pregnant when she was killed as a bystander to a high-speed police chase on North Main Street in early April. The Columbia police were in pursuit of a suspect who was wanted in the fatal shooting of a man at J.T.’s Kia car dealership earlier that day. Police had […]