A dump truck belonging to Scott Phillips Trucking of Hawthorne crashed into a concrete barrier on Route 208 when the driver swerved to avoid stopped traffic

TARIQ ZEHAWI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A dump truck crashed into a concrete barrier on Route 208 on Tuesday.

August 18, 2015
By STEFANIE DAZIO
staff writer |
The Record 

FAIR LAWN, NEW JERSEY

A dump truck crashed into a concrete barrier on Route 208 on Tuesday morning when the driver swerved to avoid stopped traffic, authorities said.

The truck clipped a box truck, which suffered minor damage, and the dump truck’s front driver’s-side wheel went over the barrier, Sgt. Brian Metzler said in a statement. No one was hurt.

The crash occurred just after 8 a.m. in the highway’s southbound lanes, Metzler said. The dump truck, belonging to Scott Phillips Trucking of Hawthorne, was hauling stone to Englewood, police said.

The borough’s rescue squad and Fire Department responded for a diesel fuel leak.

Authorities had closed the highway in both directions at the site of the accident.

Slow down, buddy.  You will cause an accident.   

Ooops, you already did.  

Well, at least next time!

4 killed when their truck plunged into a fisheries pond in Tulalip, Washington after going through the concrete road embankment

 


By KOMO Staff

Published: August 18, 2015

TULALIP, Washington

Four people died Tuesday morning when their truck crashed into a pond in Tulalip.

The truck left the road near the 7500 block of Totem Beach Rd. around 3:30 a.m. and went through a concrete embankment and into a fisheries and rearing pond, said Shari Ireton with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies reached the truck to find adult men and two adult women were dead, Ireton said.

They are still investigating what caused the crash. Ireton says they won't know if drugs or alcohol were involved until all the evidence is gathered and toxicology tests are complete.  Most likely this is a high speed crash, fueled by drugs or alcohol at 3:30 am.

Ireton says the county medical examiner will identify the victims and determine how they died.

Two children injured in Waldoboro, Maine ATV flip over

J.W. Oliver | Lincoln County News
An all-terrain vehicle lies in a roadside ditch off Controversy Lane in Waldoboro after an accident Friday, Aug. 14. 

By J.W. Oliver, Lincoln County News
Posted August 17, 2015


A 10-year-old and a 9-year-old were riding an all-terrain vehicle when it flipped over on Controversy Lane in Waldoboro at 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 14.

According to Officer Christopher Spear of the Waldoboro Police Department, the ATV “went off the shoulder of the road” before coming to rest upside-down in a ditch.

The children were taken to LincolnHealth’s Miles Campus in Damariscotta, although they did not suffer any life-threatening injuries, according to Spear.

One of the children was operating the ATV.

“It’s all under investigation right now,” Spear said.

Waldoboro Emergency Medical Services, the Waldoboro Fire Department and the Waldoboro Police Department were at the scene on Controversy Lane, a gravel road off North Nobleboro Road.

Waldoboro police are collaborating with the Maine Warden Service on the investigation, according to Spear.

A 16-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries in an ATV crash in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska

Megan Edge

August 17, 2015




A 16-year-old boy is in stable condition after he suffered serious head injuries in an ATV crash in the Matanuska Valley, troopers say.

Few details were immediately available, but Alaska State Troopers wrote in an online dispatch that they were notified of the crash at Boulder Creek near Mile 91 of the Glenn Highway at 8:17 p.m. Sunday. The dispatch does not state the cause of the crash.

Using the Purinton Creek trail head near Chickaloon, members of the Sutton First Response and Matanuska-Susitna Borough EMS made their way to the crash site on ATVs. The Air National Guard responded with a helicopter and transported the boy to a hospital.

College football player killed in ATV crash in Campbell County, Kentucky

Updated: Tue 6:01 AM, Aug 18, 2015

By: WKYT News Staff

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - 

Investigators said Monday an ATV crash has killed a college football player in northern Kentucky. 

The Campbell County Police Department says Mitchell Kramer, 21, was found dead around 2:30 Monday morning along Rifle Range Road. Kramer was the only person riding the ATV. 

Hundreds of faculty members and students held a candle light vigil Monday night in Kramer's honor. 

Thomas More College leaders said Kramer was a junior there and a member of the school's football team.

Police are not sure what caused the crash. ATVs are very dangerous and people have died or injured riding them.  Doing so at night is almost the same as a death wish as the risk is very high.

Mitch's family has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for funeral expenses as well as a scholarship in his name.