A reckless driving suspect who led officers with the California Highway Patrol on a dangerous high-speed chase was taken into custody Monday night. The suspect was leading authorities in chase in northbound lanes of the 605 Freeway before taking the westbound 210 Freeway. At times, the driver was splitting lanes in traffic at speeds of […]
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Reckless driver dies near Yosemite after fleeing park rangers, slamming into SUV
A driver from La Habra in Southern California was killed Wednesday afternoon in a head-on crash after he fled Yosemite National Park following a reckless driving incident, a park official said Thursday. The driver, who died in the crash on Highway 41 near the Road 222 to Bass Lake, had not been identified as of […]
Bemidji man pleads guilty to reckless driving for crashing into Traill County Sheriff’s Office cruiser
Jun. 12—TRAILL COUNTY — A Bemidji, Minnesota, man pleaded guilty to an amended charge of reckless driving on Wednesday, June 12, for crashing into a Traill County Sheriff’s Office cruiser earlier this year. Brody Michael Cota struck the vehicle on the evening of Jan. 28, approximately two miles south of Buxton on Interstate 29. The […]
Reckless driver of 18-wheeler arrested after brief standoff
Jun. 10—A man accused of driving an 18-wheeler recklessly on Interstate 65 before leading deputies in a brief standoff on the Tennessee River bridge Sunday evening remained in jail on Monday, according to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office. Anthony Robin Landrum, 62, is charged with reckless endangerment, misdemeanor attempt to elude and possession of drug […]
2 suburban teens dead in Eisenhower Expressway crash; Chicago woman charged with reckless homicide
CHICAGO – A Chicago woman is in custody after allegedly crashing into another vehicle and killing two people on the Eisenhower Expressway over the weekend. Ashanti Gates, 21, has been charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol, two counts of reckless homicide and child endangerment. On Sunday, Illinois State Police […]
Reckless DUI suspect taken into custody after pursuit in Southern California
The driver of a pickup truck who was suspected of driving recklessly while under the influence and led authorities in a high-speed chase has been taken into custody. Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department initiated the pursuit in the area Long Beach while the suspect was on surface streets. Reckless DUI suspect in […]
Reckless DUI suspect arrested in Orange County after high-speed chase
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 […]
UGA freshman receiver arrested on reckless driving charge, records show
A freshman receiver for the University of Georgia Bulldogs was charged with traffic violations around 3 a.m. Saturday. According to jail records from Athens-Clarke County, Sacovie White, 19, was arrested for reckless driving and driving the wrong way on a one-way street. While other details are not available about what led to White’s arrest, the […]
Convicted felon arrested, charged with reckless conduct in Athens after firing gun in air
The Athens Clarke-County Police Department say they recovered multiple firearms from a felon who was shooting his weapon in an apartment complex. ACCPD Gang Unit officials say they served a search warrant on an apartment in Rolling Ridge Apartment complex. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] During the course of their […]
Stopping reckless driving starts with changing attitudes. Begin with drivers ed.
This is in regard to James E. Causey’s opinion piece, “Reckless driver problem can’t be solved with only outrage” (May 5). The reckless driving issue is obviously not an easy one to solve. It is going to take a change in people’s attitudes to increase their sense of responsibility when they get behind the wheel. […]
British Dancer, 26, Was Killed by BF in ‘Reckless Sex Game Gone Wrong’
A British coroner said this week that Georgia Brooke, a 26-year-old dance teacher said to have been fatally strangled by her boyfriend, had died from a “reckless sex game gone wrong.” British authorities said Brooke’s boyfriend, 31-year-old Luke Cannon, took his own life by hanging just after he learned his lover had died in a […]
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel courier dies in car crash involving reckless driving, police say
Jason Stark never failed to show for his newspaper delivery route, and that would have remained true over the weekend had it not been for what authorities called a reckless driver. Stark, a 50-year-old courier for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, was killed while driving to work late Saturday when, police said, a reckless driver crashed […]