SLOW DOWN WHEN IT RAINS: TRACTOR-TRAILER CARRYING BEER HYDROPLANES AND CRASHES, CAUSES 8-VEHICLE PILEUP IN SOUTH CAROLINA

JUNE 5, 2015

HARDEEVILLE, SC (AP) 

Hardeeville police say multiple tractor trailers crashed on Interstate 95 in an eight-vehicle wreck after a tractor-trailer hauling beer hydroplaned.

Police tell local media outlets the tractor-trailer was heading northbound on I-95 around 4:30 a.m. Thursday morning and hydroplaned, hitting a tree and spilling beer into the grass along the highway. Hardeeville Police Department chief Sam Woodward says the tree fell in the roadway.

Woodward says another tractor trailer and six other cars were unable to stop in time, causing a pileup. There were no reported injuries.

I-95 was open around 8:30 a.m. Police closed one lane of the interstate while the tractor trailer that hit the tree was removed.

Source: http://www.wistv.com

So many suicides by train: Man dies after getting hit by NJ Transit train in Edison

JUNE 5, 2015

EDISON, NEW JERSEY

A 58-year old man was struck and killed by a train Friday morning, leading to  delays on a large stretch of NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor line.

Trains between Trenton and Metropark are running again as of 6:30 a.m., but are facing 60-90 minute delays in both directions, the agency said on its Twitter feed.

The accident occurred about 5 a.m. a short distance west of the Metropark station when a train from Trenton headed for New York hit the person, according to NJ Transit spokeswoman Jennifer Nelson.

Officials were not releasing the victim's name because they have not contacted family member, Nelson said. 

The 58-year-old was trespassing when he was struck, Nelson said.

"We don't know what he was doing on the tracks," Nelson said.

Nelson said the man's name should be released later Friday.

Earlier, service had been suspended between the two stations.

A spokesperson from Amtrak identified the man as Thomas Kilroy Jr. of the Avenel section of Woodbridge.

Ohio electrician electrocuted to death at construction site when his lift touched power cables

JUNE 5, 2015

HEATH, Ohio (AP)

Fire officials say a central Ohio man has died after he was electrocuted at a construction site.

Heath Fire Department Captain Warren McCord says 24-year-old James Wolfe was electrocuted shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday at a construction site in Heath, east of Columbus.

McCord says Wolfe, of Newark, was an electrician. 

He says Wolfe had been working on a scissor lift and doing electric work when the incident occurred.  Apparently, the lift touched live wires and the poor fellow electrocuted.

Officials say Wolfe was in cardiac arrest when first responders arrived. He was then taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.

What a day: 3 people jump in front of subway trains in separate suicide attempt incidents; only one man dies

JUNE 5, 2015

 

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A woman was struck after jumping in front of a 3 train headed downtown at the 72nd St. station. She was taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition.

Three people leaped in front of subway trains in separate incidents in the Upper West Side, Queens and the Bronx Friday morning, leaving one dead, officials said.

A 20-year-old man jumped in front of a Manhattan-bound L train as it pulled into the Myrtle-Wyckoff station in Ridgewood, Queens, about 8:50 a.m., officials said.

He was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where he died about a half-hour later.

Later in the morning, a man in his 40s leaped in front of a downtown 4 train at the Fordham Road station in the Bronx, officials said.

He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical condition after being struck about 10:35 a.m. but was expected to survive, officials said.

Just over a half-hour later, a woman in her 40s jumped in front of a downtown 3 train at the 72nd St. station in Manhattan.

She was taken to Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital in serious but stable condition, officials said.
Source:http://www.nydailynews.com

2 DEAD AFTER RAFT OVERTURNS ON COLORADO RIVER AT THE DEADLY FUNNEL FALLS IN WESTWATER CANYON.

JUNE 5, 2015

MOAB, UTAH

A Bountiful, Utah man and another man from New York died Thursday after their rafts overturned on the Colorado River.

Adam Ericksen, 27, of Bountiful, and Charles McLynch, 50, of Bay Shore, New York, were riding in separate rafts that both overturned at Funnel Falls in Westwater Canyon.

According to a news release from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office, several people were said to have been thrown into the river around 1:30 p.m.

Ericksen and McLynch were recovered from the river, but efforts to revive them were unsuccessful. Their bodies were transported by raft downriver to the Cisco Boat Ramp, then taken to the Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office.

Funnel falls is 54 miles upriver from Moab.

Ericksen’s family released a statement Friday, see below for the full text:

We are mourning the loss of our son, brother, and fiancé.

Adam passed away in a drowning accident at West Water Canyon on the Colorado River at 1:30 pm on Thursday.

He was a senior at the University of Utah Business School. He had one semester left.

He was a Musician. He was Entrepreneur of the year at the Salt Lake Community College. He loved the outdoors.

He was on a trip with friends. He had an engagement ring and was intending to formally propose.

He will be greatly missed. He was positive, kind-hearted and a great light in our family.

He also took risks with his life by riding the deadly rapids at these swollen waters and he end-up paying for it.  RIP.