ead did not, he said. Investigators on Sunday planned to look over the scene for any clues as to why the truck driver plowed through the railroad crossing. It’s expected to take up to a year to pinpoint the cause of the crash. The Churchill County Sheriff’s office said Saturday that six people had died in the crash. The truck driver and train conductor were among the dead. The conductor, 68-year-old Laurette Lee of South Lake Tahoe, C…
SPARKS, Nev. – Authorities say five people remained unaccounted for following a fiery crash involving a big rig and an Amtrak train in the Nevada desert, but investigators say they’ve yet to find any more bodies in the wreck that left six dead. Amtrak lowered the number of unaccounted passengers Sunday, a day after authorities said they couldn’t locate 28 of the more than 200 passengers believed to be on board at the time of the coll…
PHILADELPHIA – “Jackass” star Ryan Dunn had a blood-alcohol content that was more than twice the legal limit when he and a passenger died in a fiery one-car crash this week, according to a toxicology report. Dunn’s Porsche may have been traveling as fast as 140 mph in a 55 mph zone when it jumped a guardrail, flew into a wooded ravine, struck a tree and burst into flames, police said. His blood-alcohol level was 0.196 at the ti…
DETROIT – A standout Indiana high school basketball player with the promise of playing at the University of Michigan is fighting for his life after surviving the second plane crash of his young life. Austin Hatch, 16, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was in critical condition Saturday in a northern Michigan hospital after the Friday evening crash that killed his father, Dr. Stephen Hatch, and his stepmother, Kim. Austin and his pilot father had survived a 2…
BESOVETS, Russia (AFP) – A Russian plane exploded into flames after crashing on a highway just short of its airport, killing 44 and leaving eight survivors fighting for their lives, officials said on Tuesday. The RusAir Tupolev 134 was trying to land at its destination of Petrozavodsk in the Karelia region of northwestern Russia in bad weather but failed to make the runway and instead hurtled onto a road two kilometres (1.25 miles) away. Inves…
PHILADELPHIA – “Jackass” star Ryan Dunn, who along with his cast mates made Americans cringe and snicker through vulgar stunts in their multimillion-dollar TV and movie franchise, was killed early Monday in a fiery car crash. He was 34. Dunn, a daredevil whose most famous skits included diving into a sewage tank and shoving a toy car into his rectum, was driving his 2007 Porsche in suburban Philadelphia when it careered off the road,…