DON NOT DRINK AND DRIVE: 2 women killed, 1 injured after an 18-wheeler smashes a a black Chevrolet Silverado into pieces on Highway 59 in Texas

2 friends killed in early morning crash on US-59

Two young women, both roommates, are dead after a crash involving an 18-wheeler in Rosenberg, police say.

By Jessica Willey
Saturday, December 31, 2016 06:22PM
ROSENBERG, TX (KTRK) -- Two young women were killed in a violent crash on Highway 59 that shut down the freeway for hours.

Rosenberg police identify the victims as Nicolette Huebotter, 24, of Richmond, and Marissa Rodriguez, 26, of Beasley.

The crash happened around 3am Saturday at Highway 59 and Cottonwood Church Road. An eyewitness said a pickup truck pulled out of a travel plaza and collided with an 18-wheeler. The impact ripped the semi's trailer apart, spilling its load and slicing the pickup in two.

"Half of the pickup went in the northbound side and another half would up in the bar ditch. One woman was thrown out of her vehicle and into the bar ditch," said Roy Davis, who was working on a construction site nearby.

According to police, two women were ejected. Eyewitness News has learned four people were inside the pickup, a black Chevrolet Silverado. Huebotter and Rodriguez, both roommates, were killed. Another young woman remains hospitalized. The driver of the pickup, said to be Huebotter's boyfriend, was not taken to the hospital.

Huebotter's mother tells Eyewitness News the group of friends had been out celebrating her daughter's birthday, which was Thursday. They had gone to a club in Houston and stopped at a McDonald's near the crash scene on the way home.

"She was amazing," said her mother through tears. Huebotter, her two sisters and mother were very close.

Rodriguez was the wife of a Fort Bend County Sheriff's deputy. They couple have a young son.

The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office posted this on Facebook:

"We are heartbroken that this horrific crash involved the spouse of one of our deputies who we will not name. We want him to know the prayers of all of us and the community he serves are with him and his family."

The driver of the 18-wheeler went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The crash is under investigation. No one has been charged.

It is apparent that the black Chevrolet Silverado truck driver was drunk and drove into the 18-wheeler.  Most drunk driving accidents happen in the am hours, just like this one.

3 people killed after two aiplanes collide mid-air and crash and burn east of the Aero Country Airport, in McKinney, Texas.

MCKINNEY, TEXAS -- Three people are dead after two small planes collided mid-air over McKinney Saturday.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the crash happened near Aero Country Airport, in the 500 block of North Custer Road near Virginia, just after 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

"Both aircraft were flying under Visual Flight Rules and were not in contact with air traffic control at the time of the collision," Lynn Lunsford with the FAA said. McKinney police described the scene as "widespread".

Bloemker tells WFAA he was driving north on Custer Road when he saw the two planes collide. One of them came down spiraling nose-first, he said. He said the planes were flying low to the ground, and they crashed in a very populated area. Witnesses say one of the planes crashed in the parking lot of a Home Depot.


Wreckage of a small plane from a mid-air collision over McKinney on Saturday.


By 6 p.m. the fire from the plane in the video had been put out by crews, Bloemker said.

Plane crash in McKinney, Custer X Virginia pic.twitter.com/397MIg4hig— 12 years of wave (@_ktbm) December 31, 2016

Police are asking people to stay away from Custer and Virginia as they investigate. The FAA is on scene investigating and is coordinating with the National Transportation Safety Board. %



Check back for more on this developing story.




Date:

31-DEC-2016
Time: 17:30+
Type:
Piper PA-28R
Owner/operator:

Registration:

C/n / msn:

Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities: 2
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Collin County, McKinney, TX - United States of America
Phase: Unknown
Nature: Unknown
Departure airport:

Destination airport:

Narrative:
The aircraft experienced a mid-air collision with another aircraft and subsequent impact with asphalt terrain east of the Aero Country Airport (T31), in McKinney, Texas. The airplane was partially consumed by the post-impact fire. There were three reported fatalities among the two aircraft.

Sources:
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/collin-county/plane-crash-reported-in-mckinney/380987179
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Mid-Air-Plane-Collision-Kills-At-Least-One-Near-McKinney-409033435.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/collin-county/2016/12/31/least-one-likely-dead-small-plane-collision-mckinney
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb_QQCq_yuA
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2067149,-96.7290339,19z/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-us

4 People Dead In A Piper PA-28 Fiery Plane Crash In Rural Vienna, IL

UPDATE: 4 People Dead In A Plane Crash In Vienna, IL

Posted: Dec 31, 2016 9:40 PM EST Updated: Jan 01, 2017 12:59 AM EST
By Jennifer Horbelt


  JOHNSON COUNTY, IL -

Update: The FAA says that 4 people have died in a plane crash in rural Vienna, IL under unknown circumstances.

We will continue to update this story and bring you more updates as they become available.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirms, a Pipe PA28 has crashed in rural Vienna under unknown circumstances.

They also tell Local 6 fatalities are reported, although the amount of damage is unknown.

The Johnson County Sheriff's Department also confirmed to Local 6 that a private aircraft had crashed earlier in the evening, and they were dealing with a fire on scene in a field in the 900 block of E. Crossroad Rd.

The FAA and NTSB are en route to the scene



================= Date:

	31-DEC-2016
Time:	18:30
Type:	Piper PA-28
Owner/operator:
Registration:
C/n / msn:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Airplane damage:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Johnson County SE of Vienna, IL -   United States of America
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Unknown
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The aircraft impacted rural timbered terrain southeast of Vienna, Illinois, and a post impact fire ensued. The airplane was destroyed in an apparently non-survivable event. The sheriffs department report 4 fatalities.

Sources:

http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/34160109/sheriffs-office-confirms-private-plane-crash-in-rural-vienna
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/34160038/possible-plane-crash-in-johnson-county
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3483882,-88.8064367,19z/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-us
Update of www.wpsdlocal6.com

3 killed after two sport utility vehicles collided head-on Friday night at a dangerous curve on Route 123 in Easton, Mass.

Victims in horrific fatal crash identified as Easton man, 58, his son and son's girlfriend, both 17





Friday Posted Dec 30, 2016 at 7:36 PM Updated at 11:51 AM



Two sport utility vehicles collided head-on Friday night at a dangerous curve on Route 123 in Easton. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene and another died overnight at a Boston hospital. By Cody Shepard
The Enterprise


EASTON, Mass. - Police have identified the three victims of horrific fatal crash Friday evening.

Two sport utility vehicles collided head-on Friday night at a dangerous curve on Route 123. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene and another died overnight at a Boston hospital, all as a result of the injuries they sustained in the crash.


On Saturday morning Easton Police identified the victims as William R. Fleming, 58, of Easton, his son Robert W. Fleming, 17, also of Easton, and Kayleigh Desrosiers, 17, of Halifax.

Roberts Fleming was a student at Oliver Ames High School in Easton, as were three of his siblings who since graduated, and Desrosiers attended Silver Lake Regional High in Kingston.

Oliver Ames Principal Wes Paul sent a letter out Saturday to students, families and teachers Saturday which read in part:

"It is with a heavy heart that I share with you the sad news that one of our classmates, Robert Fleming, was killed in a car accident last night. I have spoken with Robert's mother expressing our collective condolences for her losses and offered our assistance... Robert is survived by his mother Deena, and siblings Joseph Gizzi OA Class of 2011, Kimberly Newman OA Class of 2012, and Amy Maliff OA Class of 2013."

Paul added that various forms of grief counseling will be available at the school Saturday until 3 p.m.

Police said a Chevrolet HHR crossed the center line and slammed into a Toyota Sequoia SUV shortly after 6 p.m. on Depot Street, Route 123, at an S-curve west of the Cross Street intersection.

The vehicles' front ends were completely caved in. One victim was injured, lying on the ground outside the car, another was unconscious inside and a nurse was performing CPR as witnesses looked on in horror.

The man driving the Chevrolet, William Fleming, and the female rear-seat passenger, Desrosiers, died at the scene, Fire Chief Kevin Partridge told The Enterprise.

A man in the back seat, Robert Fleming, was taken by ambulance to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton and flown to a Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries, Partridge said. He later died.

"Unfortunately, the third passenger succumbed to his injuries last night at the hospital," Police Chief Gary Sullivan told The Enterprise Saturday morning.

The driver of the black Toyota was taken by ambulance to a Brockton hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Partridge said. She was alone in the vehicle.

A family member identified the victims in the Chevrolet as her husband, her son and her son's girlfriend.T he family lives in South Easton, about a mile from the crash scene.

The first police officer and engine arrived simultaneously at the scene at 8:14 p.m. The officer found a nurse performing CPR on one of the victims and immediately requested more help for what he thought might be a fatal crash.

After the collision, the Chevrolet was over the center line in the westbound lane, facing east. The Sequoia appeared to have been driving west toward the Foundry Street intersection and was cleanly between the center yellow and right white travel lines.

Partridge said it appears initially that none of the three people inside the Chevy were wearing seat belts.

"It appears they were unrestrained," he told The Enterprise at the scene late Friday night. "As you can see, in that car there, the passenger compartment is pretty well intact. I can't stress enough, people need to wear their seat belts, that's what they're designed for."

Partridge said his firefighters did the best they could to treat the victims. They had to use hydraulic rescue tools to remove William Fleming from the Chevy, but he died at the scene.

"As you can imagine, it was a very hectic scene at first," Partridge said. "Just like everybody else, it's an emotional thing to deal with. They're (firefighters) trained to do their job, they do their job, but everyone's affected by it differently. We talk to the guys, see how everyone's doing, make sure everyone's doing OK. Over time, in your career, you have many of these. It's like an accumulative effect on you."

Investigators remained on scene for four hours. The cause of the crash is being investigated by Easton police and a state police accident reconstruction unit.

Valantein Burson, 31, the female driver responsible for an October car crash that killed her and four others was drunk, high and speeding at the time of the crash

Wrong-way driver was drunk, high at time of fiery crash
Updated: 9:39 PM EST Dec 30, 2016






By Anna Burgess/Brockton Enterprise




MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. —

The woman responsible for an October car crash that killed her and four others was drunk, high and speeding at the time of the crash, police have determined.


Fall River resident Valantein Burson was driving home from a party with a blood alcohol level of .16 and marijuana in her system when she sped down Route 495 the wrong way and crashed into a Mercury Sable, causing it to burst into flame.

The Oct. 24 crash, which occurred just after midnight on Route 495 in Middleboro, killed Burson, who was 31, and all four college students who had been in the Mercury, the Brockton Enterprise reported.

The students were later identified as 20-year-old Kraig Diggs, of Osterville; 19-year-old Jordan Galvin-Jutras, of Hyannis; 19-year-old Jordan Fisher, of Harwich; and 18-year-old Cory Licata, of New York.

Diggs and Galvin-Jutras had been students at Anna Maria College, while Fisher and Licata had been students at Becker College.

Burson was a Stoughton native and graduate of Stoughton High School.

According to a Friday press release from the office of Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz, Burson's postmortem toxicology report showed she had a blood alcohol level of .16 and marijuana in her system.

Crash reconstruction showed Burson had been traveling about 90 miles per hour at the time of the crash, with her headlights off.

The State Police investigation revealed Burson had been at a party in New Bedford earlier in the night.

She was smoking and drinking at the party, witnesses told police.

Burson left the party alone, planning to meet someone at her Fall River apartment, but never arrived home.

A few minutes before the crash, witnesses reported seeing Burson make a three-point turn on the northbound side of the highway, driving south and hitting several cars before crashing head-on into the Mercury.

Reconstruction of the crash revealed that Burson's headlights were off at the time of the crash, and there were no tire marks or evidence of braking left by either vehicle prior to impact.

The speedometer of Burson's car was stuck at approximately 90 mph.

Massachusetts State Police concluded their investigation into the crash this week.

The crash was investigated by Massachusetts State Police troopers assigned to Troop D in Middleboro, in conjunction with state police detectives assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and State Police Crime Scene Services.