MCCAMMON, IDAHO — A young brother and sister from Pocatello are among the three people who died Sunday afternoon in a horrific head-on collision that shut down Highway 30 for several hours near McCammon.
Authorities confirmed that 15-year-old Eric Neibaur, a member of the Century High School football team, and his sister Lauren Neibaur, 13, both died in the 12:42 p.m. wreck along with Jay Lanningham, 70, of Nampa.
A female juvenile from the Nampa area suffered critical injuries in the crash and an emergency responder with Bannock County Search and Rescue nearly died at the scene when he suffered a massive heart attack. The names of the injured girl and responder have not yet been released.
The wreck occurred when Eric Neibaur was driving westbound on Highway 30 in a red 1999 Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck with his sister and drifted into the eastbound lanes, colliding head-on with an eastbound white 2011 Chevrolet Suburban driven by Lanningham. The female juvenile who was critically injured was a passenger in Lanningham’s SUV.
State police said they have a good idea of what caused the wreck but they’re not going to release that information until completing their investigation.
All four of the accident victims were trapped in their vehicles, both of which suffered catastrophic front-end damage.
A Bannock County sheriff’s deputy was the first responder at the scene and he was met by family members of the victims who were trying to extricate them from their wrecked vehicles. The family members were apparently following in other vehicles and saw the accident happen.
The scene was incredibly gruesome and chaotic, according to Bannock County Sheriff Lorin Nielsen, and after the incident the deputy who was first on the scene was given the rest of the day off.
Two emergency helicopters and multiple ambulances were dispatched to the wreck.
State police said the girl who was a passenger in Lanningham’s SUV was airlifted via emergency helicopter from the accident scene to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. Authorities said she is currently listed in critical condition but is expected to survive. The Neibaurs and Lanningham all died at the scene, authorities said. There were no other occupants in the vehicles.
The Bannock County Sheriff’s Office reported that a member of the county’s search and rescue unit suffered a severe heart attack at the accident scene. Authorities said the responder was helping to remove the bodies from the wrecked vehicles when he went into cardiac arrest. Ambulance personnel at the scene had to revive him via a portable defibrillator. The responder was then transported by ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center. The Sheriff’s Office reported early Sunday evening that he is expected to survive.
Highway 30 was shut down for over five hours because of the crash.
That teenage boy should not have been driving the pickup truck. We would not be surprised if the investigation finds that he was horsing around with his sister and/or texting when this head-on collision happened.
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MCCAMMON, IDAHO — Three people are dead and another is in critical condition after a head-on collision Sunday afternoon on Highway 30 near this Bannock County town.
In addition an emergency responder with Bannock County Search and Rescue nearly died at the scene of the 12:42 p.m. wreck when he suffered a severe heart attack.
Authorities said a male juvenile, a female juvenile and an older man died and another female juvenile is in critical condition as a result of the crash involving a pickup truck and SUV.
State police identified the deceased adult as Jay Lanningham, 70, of Nampa, but the names of the two deceased juveniles have not yet been released. Authorities did confirm that both of the deceased juveniles are teenagers from Pocatello; it’s believed the injured juvenile is from the Nampa area. The name of the Bannock County Search and Rescue member who had the heart attack has also not yet been released.
The male and female juvenile who died were in a westbound red 1999 Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck driven by the male that collided head-on with an eastbound white 2011 Chevrolet Suburban driven by Lanningham. The juvenile who was critically injured was a passenger in Lanningham’s SUV.
State police said they have a good idea of what caused the wreck but they’re not going to release that information until completing their investigation.
All four of the accident victims were trapped in their vehicles, both of which suffered catastrophic front-end damage.
Courtesy Idaho State Journal
A Bannock County sheriff’s deputy was the first responder at the scene and he was met by family members of the victims who were trying to extricate them from their wrecked vehicles. The family members were apparently following in other vehicles and saw the accident happen. The scene was incredibly gruesome and chaotic, according to Bannock County Sheriff Lorin Nielsen, and after the incident the deputy who was first on the scene was given the rest of the day off.
Two emergency helicopters and multiple ambulances were dispatched to the wreck.
State police said the injured girl was airlifted via emergency helicopter from the accident scene to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. Authorities said she is currently listed in critical condition but she is expected to survive. The three deceased individuals all died at the scene.
Other than the three people who died and the injured girl, there were no other occupants in the vehicles.
The Bannock County Sheriff’s Office reported that a member of the county’s search and rescue unit suffered a severe heart attack at the accident scene. He was overweight and at risk of heart attack. Authorities said the responder was helping to remove the bodies from the wrecked vehicles when he went into cardiac arrest. Ambulance personnel at the scene had to revive him via a portable defibrillator. The responder was then transported by ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center. The Sheriff’s Office reported early Saturday evening that he is expected to survive.
Highway 30 was shut down for over five hours because of the crash but has since reopened.
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An overweight emergency worker is expected to survive after suffering a heart attack while responding to a head-on collision in Idaho that killed two teen siblings and a 70-year-old man. The unidentified member of the Bannock County search and rescue unit was helping to remove the bodies from the wrecked vehicles when he went into cardiac arrest, KSL reported.
Emergency workers revived him with a portable defibrillator and he was transported to Portneuf Medical Center. While authorities have not released the name of the worker nor of the 70-year-old’s injured passenger, they did identify the three victims killed in Sunday’s horror crash.
Authorities said 15-year-old driver Eric Neibaur, and his sister, 13-year-old Lauren Neibaur, were killed when the red 1999 Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck they were traveling in drifted into oncoming traffic and collided with Jay Lanningham’s white 2011 Chevrolet Suburban, KSL reported. Lanningham was killed and his female juvenile passenger was critically injured.
The teens’ family members had been traveling in other vehicles and were among the first on the scene. Emergency workers reportedly arrived to find relatives trying to extract the victims from the vehicles, KSL reported. The Bannock County sheriff’s deputy who was the first on the scene was given the day off to emotionally recover from the accident.
The teens are being remembered for their inseparable bond and love of dirt bikes. The family had been camping and riding dirt bikes in Big Springs ahead of the fatal accident, Idaho Statesman reported.
“Everybody can say that they are friends, that they loved their siblings, or whatever they want, but those two were unique,” Bobbi Neibaur, the teens’ mother, told Idaho Statesman. “They had a magical connection.”
Authorities said they will not release the cause of the accident until the investigation is complete. Multiple fundraisers are planned to help cover funeral costs for the Neibaur family and two GoFundMe pages have been set up.
A suspected tornado near Birmingham, Alabama, flattened businesses and injured one person Thursday, while the mayor of a coastal Louisiana town urged residents to evacuate ahead of a rising tide — two lingering effects of a weakening Tropical Depression Cindy that was fueling harsh weather across the Southeast.
A liquor store and a fast-food restaurant were among the damaged businesses in Fairfield, Alabama, west of Birmingham, said meteorologist Jason Holmes of the National Weather Service. Dean Argo, a spokesman for the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board said one employee of the liquor store was hurt.
Holmes also told The Associated Press that trees were down and buildings were reported damaged along the Interstate 20 corridor on the western outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama's most populous city. The weather service had issued tornado warnings earlier for the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas, and Gov. Kay Ivey had urged state residents to be alert for dangerous weather.
Meanwhile, the Gulf Coast was still suffering the effects of Cindy, a former tropical storm that crawled ashore from the Gulf of Mexico early Thursday near the Louisiana-Texas state line. Downgraded to a tropical depression, Cindy was weakening as it headed north through Louisiana toward Arkansas but a broad circulation around the system swept moist Gulf air over the South, fueling bands of strong weather and pushing up coastal tides.
In the low-lying Louisiana town of Lafitte, south of New Orleans, Mayor Tim Kerner urged residents in and around the town to seek higher ground because of rising water.
"The tide's rolling in. It's getting to a dangerous level," Kerner said. Streets and yards in the town were covered and Kerner worried that homes, even those in parts of town protected by levees, might be flooded. "I'm hoping not," he added.
"Certainly it's not been as bad as we feared. That's the good news, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said in Baton Rouge. "The bad news is it's not over yet."
As a slow-moving tropical storm that formed Tuesday in the Gulf, Cindy was blamed for one death: authorities said a 10-year-old Missouri boy vacationing with his family on the Alabama coast was struck by a log washed in by a large wave. Cindy also caused widespread coastal highway and street flooding and several short-lived tornadoes, but no other deaths.
In Louisiana, Edwards said two fishermen who were reported missing in coastal St. Mary Parish were located and rescued Thursday morning. Off Texas, the U.S. Coast Guard helped the four-member crew of a shrimp trawler limp back to shore at Freeport after the crew radioed in distress amid fears of sinking early Wednesday.
Authorities warn driving rains could still cause dangerous flash floods. "That continues to be the threat," said Ken Graham, of the National Weather Service Office near New Orleans. "Not only around the center of Cindy. The impact of rain can be hundreds of miles away."
Heavy rain was forecast to spread over the Tennessee and Ohio valleys on Thursday, then move Friday and Saturday into the central Appalachians. At 10 a.m. CDT Thursday, Cindy was about 165 miles (265 kilometers) northwest of Morgan City and moving to the north at 13 mph (20 kph).
National Weather Service forecasters said the storm had dumped from 2 to 10 inches (50 to 250 millimeters) of rain on various spots along the Gulf Coast from southern Louisiana to the Florida panhandle as of Wednesday. Jim Stefkovich, a meteorologist with the Alabama Emergency Agency, said some parts of coastal Alabama got a foot of rain. "We are not done with the threat yet," Stefkovich added.
In southwest Louisiana, not far from where Cindy came ashore before dawn, motorists in trucks drove through knee-high water in the streets of Cameron Parish — but there was no serious flooding. "We haven't heard of water getting into homes," said Ashley Buller, an assistant in the parish emergency office. "Mostly a few downed trees, power outages."
The Mississippi coast received some of the heaviest rain. In Gulfport, Mississippi, Kathleen Bertucci said heavy rains Wednesday sent about 10 inches (250 millimeters) of water into her business selling granite countertops. "It's pretty disgusting, but I don't have flood insurance because they took me out of the flood zone," said Bertucci, whose store is near a bayou.
Some threats could be lurking in the flood waters, Alabama state officials warned in a statement that floating colonies of fire ants could form in the gushing surge of water.
And in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, there was another worry in a neighborhood where streets and a few homes had flooded Thursday.
"One of our safety concerns is alligators," said local neighborhood watch organizer Erin West. "We have several alligators in the nearby ponds and it's springtime and they like to move around during springtime and everything."
Denzel Kewon Poole, 26, had just gotten married the day before
The driver of an all-terrain vehicle died Wednesday after an ATV crash in Mebane while being pursued by the N.C. Highway Patrol.
The agency confirmed Thursday that Denzel Kewon Poole, 26, succumbed to his injuries Wednesday evening. Poole had just gotten married on Tuesday, his widow told the Times-News.
About 5:41 p.m. Wednesday, dispatchers in Greensboro received a complaint about an ATV traveling east on Interstate 40/85, and broadcast the information to troopers in Alamance County.
At 5:48 p.m., an Alamance County-based trooper saw a man driving an ATV in the inside lane, next to the wall, and clocked the vehicle at 83 mph between Haw River and Mebane.
Not only was it against the law for the vehicle to be speeding, but it was illegal for Poole to be operating an ATV on the road since it wasn’t registered, insured and outfitted with tires rated for the highway, said Sgt. Michael Stuart.
The trooper tried to stop the ATV and advised dispatchers he was involved in a chase.
The ATV exited the interstate onto N.C. 119 and traveled south before running off the road at 5:49 p.m. and striking a utility pole near Kimrey Road.
Poole, of Lithonia, Ga., was pronounced dead at the scene by medics. Investigators are unsure whether Poole was under the influence of any impairing substance at the time of the crash.
Stuart said a portion of N.C. 119, from Kimrey Road to Jim Minor Road, was blocked off for roughly two hours after the crash.
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This guy had some serious criminal record
Deputies seize 20,000 prescription pills, stolen guns from Durham home; 22-year-old sought
Posted March 13, 2014
Durham, N.C. — The Durham County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help to locate a 22-year-old man wanted for the possession of more than 20,000 prescription pills and at least three stolen firearms.
Investigators went to a home in the 2700 block of Hinson Drive Thursday searching for Denzel Kewon Poole, who is also a suspect in several Senoia, Ga., pharmacy burglaries.
Poole was not in the home, but Durham County deputies found and seized several firearms, more than 13,000 hydrocodone pills, $10,000 in cash and $4,000 of counterfeit money. Deputies also found more than 400 morphine pills, hundreds of clonazepam and codeine pills and thousands of other non-narcotic prescription pills.
The estimated street value of the narcotics is $200,000, authorities said.
Stolen firearms in the home included an AR-15 rifle reported stolen in Statesville, a Smith & Wesson .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol reported stolen in Orange County and a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver reported stolen in Durham.
Poole has been charged in Durham County with possession of a stolen firearm, maintaining a dwelling for the purpose of manufacturing, selling or delivering a controlled substance, trafficking opium or heroin and multiple charges of possession of a controlled substance.
Anyone with information about Poole's whereabouts should call the Durham County Sheriff's Office crime tip line at 919-560-7151 or Durham Crime Stoppers at 919-683-1200. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves.
ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — Careless smoking around medical oxygen caused the death of a 67-year-old Susan E. Cutright of Zionsville in a Tuesday night house fire along U.S. 421, town officials said.
Authorities identified the woman Wednesday as Susan E. Cutright.
“The cause of the fire has been determined to be accidental in nature, associated with careless smoking around in home medical oxygen,” said a news release issued Wednesday by the town. “The origin where the fire started has been identified as the center bedroom in the home.”
A memorial fund has been established at Old National Bank to help Cutright’s family pay for the expenses associated with the fire. The release said community members wishing to help can visit any Old National Bank branch and make a deposit to Susan Cutright Benefit Account.
Boone County Sheriff Deputy Rob Watson, who was patrolling the area, reported a house in the 700 block of North U.S. 421 with flames visible at 7:50 p.m., the town said in a Tuesday news release. Watson made several attempts to alert the home’s occupants of the fire before Zionsville Fire Department arrived about five minutes later.
A Whitestown Fire Department crew found the woman and took her to a waiting paramedic ambulance crew, but she was pronounced dead on the scene, the release said.
A neighbor who tried to enter the home prior to the fire departments’ arrival was treated at the scene.
No firefighters were injured in the fire.
Fire units from Center Township, Lebanon, Sheridan and Zionsville helped battle the fire or bring water to fight the blaze in the rural area. U.S. 421 was closed as crews fought the fire.
Fatal crash involving pickup, dump truck on Route 55. Rick Williams reports during Action News at Noon on June 22, 2017. (WPVI)
Updated 2 hrs 23 mins ago
FRANKLIN TWP., N.J. (WPVI) -- Police have identified the man killed in a crash on Route 55 in Franklin Township, New Jersey.
Peter Koslowsky, 33, of Erma, died in the wreck around 3 a.m. Thursday in the northbound lanes approaching Route 40.
State police tell Action News a pickup truck heading southbound in the northbound lanes collided with a dump truck, causing both vehicles to catch fire.
The dump truck overturned, spilling fuel and its load of what appeared to be sand across the highway.
Video from Chopper 6 HD showed the pickup truck several hundred feet away. It had sustained heavy damage.
Most drunk or drug-related accidents occur in the early a.m. hours, like this one. Based on the damage to the pickup truck, most likely its driver was Peter Koslowsky (Polish-decent people are notorious drunks). He will never do that again.
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Police on Friday identified the person killed while driving the wrong way on Route 55 early Thursday morning.
Peter Koslowsky, 33, of Erma, NJ, was driving a 2014 Ford F-150 southbound in the northbound lane on Route 55 when he collided with a dump truck driving northbound Thursday morning. The accident, which occurred in Franklin Township, was reported at 2:47 a.m., police said.
The driver of the dump truck sustained minor injuries, according to police. The dump truck driver was identified as Dick Langlois, 52, of Millville, according to NJ.com. Both trucks were engulfed in flames following the head-on crash.
There were no other vehicles or passengers involved in the accident, which police said remains under investigation. Police declined to provide any further details about the crash.
Koslowsky was an alumnus of Lower Cape May Regional High School, according to his Facebook page.
Since Thursday, friends of Koslowsky have taken to Facebook to express their support for him and his family.
“Just heard some news that broke my heart. Pete Koslowsky you were an amazing person. I will forever cherish all the memories we had together,” wrote Joe Ryan, who is from Cape May, NJ, according to his page.
Patrick McBride of Cape May wrote that he couldn’t believe Koslowsky was dead.
“That can’t be true he’s gonna call or text for the past 10 years not a day has gone by that we haven’t talked either on the job site or phone calls. I love you brother. 25 years of friendship gone in an instant. Linda Koslowsky and Ted all of your none biological sons are here for you and the family love you more then ever,” McBride wrote.
Route 55 has previously been the site of fatal accidents, including in May 2016, when a woman veered off the road near Route 42 in Deptford and struck a tree.
WASHINGTON, DC — Fairfax County police are investigating a fatal crash on the Fairfax County Parkway near Braddock Road Friday morning that killed a Springfield, Virginia, man and sent three others to the hospital.
A 2003 Honda Civic was traveling northbound on the parkway shortly before 7 a.m. when it crossed the median into the southbound lanes and into the path of a 2015 Volkswagen Passat, police said.
Sayed Osman Sayed, 20, died of his injuries. Three other people were taken to the hospital, including one person who was airlifted. Police did not provide an update on the conditions of any of the people sent to the hospital.
Authorities said they are investigating what led to the crash, including whether speed was a factor. Police have said they do not believe alcohol was involved.
The crash closed the southbound lanes on the parkway between Braddock Road and Popes Head Road for more than three hours Friday morning.
Injured workers across 15 states never get substantial return to work. New research shows coming back fully for an injured employee may be more difficult than once thought.
June 23, 2017 | By Marlene Y. Satter
Between 10 percent and 18 percent of injured workers across 15 states never manage a substantial return to work after an injury.
That’s according to research from “Comparing Outcomes for Injured Workers, 2016 Interviews,” a multiyear study effort by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Six state studies in the project have just been released, comparing outcomes for injured workers in Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin and nine other states.
The six states just released are based on interviews conducted in 2016, while the other nine states — Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee — were conducted from 2013 to 2015. The outcomes examined include recovery of physical health and functioning, return to work, earnings recovery, access to medical care and satisfaction with medical care.
For back-related injuries and the most expensive claims overall, new study evidence suggests worker choice may heighten claim costs.
“By examining outcomes of injured workers, policymakers and other stakeholders can better understand how different state workers’ compensation systems compare in order to identify and prioritize opportunities to improve system performance,” Ramona Tanabe, WCRI’s executive vice president and in-house counsel, says in a statement.
The picture the research paints is troubling, as is another study from WCRI about how effective workers’ compensation is at replacing the pay received by an injured worker 10 years after an injury, compared with that received by an uninjured worker over the same period of time.
In Indiana, for instance, the study shows 10 percent of Indiana workers with more than seven days of lost time report never returning to work for at least a one-month period predominantly due to the injury as of three years after the injury occurred. Eleven percent reported no substantial return to work within one year of the injury. These rates, WCRI adds, “were somewhat lower than in many study states.”
In Virginia, 14 percent of workers with more than seven days of lost time reported never returning to work for at least a one-month period predominantly due to the injury as of three years post-injury; 17 percent reported no substantial return to work within one year of the injury. These rates were similar to the median study state.
And in the state of Wisconsin, 12 percent of workers with more than seven days of lost time reported never returning to work for at least a one-month period predominantly due to the injury as of three years after the injury occurred, while 13 percent reported no substantial return to work within one year of the injury. “These rates were similar to what we observed in the median study state,” reports WCRI.
SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) - Firefighters rescued an employee who suffered a back spasm while working on USS Russell at the Continental Maritime of San Diego on Bay Front Street in Barrio Logan.
The worker suffered the back spasm while he was working in a tight space, and his level of discomfort kept him from freeing himself from the space according to San Diego Fire-Rescue Batalion Chief Ted Moran.
"It pretty much just took man power to get him out," Moran said. "We responded with resources that we could perform a technical rescue if need be, but after evaluating the situation, one of our rescue captains, again with the other rescue team that was on scene, decided that the best route of extricating the individual was just moving him laterally on the ship and then, through sheer man power, carrying him up a steep flight of stairs to get him out."
An ambulance waiting for the worker on the flight deck transported him to an area hospital in stable condition.
Continental Maritime of San Diego is a certified Master Ship Repair contractor for the U.S. Navy and Military Sealift Command
Metro Grocery Chain Fined $80,000 After Worker Injured by Meat Grinder
June 22, 2017 4:20 P.M.
Ministry of Labour
SUDBURY, ON - Metro Ontario Inc. pleaded guilty and was fined $80,000 after a worker in the grocery chain's Sudbury store was injured while grinding meat.
The incident took place in the Metro store at 900 Lasalle Boulevard in Sudbury on November 24, 2015.
The worker was making sausage by putting pork in the hopper of a meat grinder. The worker closed the lid and pressed the 'mix/grind' button on the machine. While looking through a window in the hopper, the worker noted that the hopper was empty and determined that the meat required a second grind. Without stopping the machine, the worker lifted the lid to the hopper; this action disconnected an interlock switch that shut off power to the motor. However, the equipment was designed such that the mixing arms continued to rotate without power for about 10 seconds after being shut off.
The worker put one hand down from the lid handle to the centre of the underside of the lid in order to engage a catch that would keep the lid open. At this point the mixing arms were still turning and the sleeve of the worker's coat was caught. The worker received an injury and was taken to hospital.
A Ministry of Labour investigation determined that the grinder was not equipped with and guarded by a guard to prevent access to the pinch point created by the still-rotating mixer arms. Metro took steps to retro-fit the same equipment in all its stores to prevent further incidents.
Metro Ontario Inc. pleaded guilty to failing as an employer to ensure that the measures and procedures under Section 25 of Regulation 851 (the Industrial Establishments Regulation) were carried out in the workplace - specifically, ensuring that "an in-running nip hazard or any part of a machine, device or thing that may endanger the safety of any worker shall be equipped with and guarded by a guard or other device that prevents access to the pinch point." This was an offence under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Metro Ontario Inc. received a fine of $80,000 from Justice of the Peace J. Gary McMahon in Sudbury court on June 9, 2017.
The court also imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.
Court Information at a Glance
Location:
Provincial Offences Court/Ontario Court of Justice
199 Larch Street
Sudbury, Ontario
Judge:
Justice of the Peace J. Gary McMahon
Date of Sentencing:
June 9, 2017
Defendant:
Metro Ontario Inc.
Corporate address:
5559 Dundas Street West
Etobicoke, Ontario
Workplace address:
900 Lasalle Boulevard
Sudbury, Ontario
Matter:
Occupational health and safety
Conviction:
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Section 25(1)(c)
Regulation 851 (Industrial Establishments Regulation)
Section 25
Crown Counsel:
Wes Wilson/Graeme Adams
