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car crash stories: 52 news summaries

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Paintball Chase Goes Awry in Houston

Two men crash SUV into house trying to elude bar owner

Feb 17, 09 8:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Not your master criminals, these two. A pair of Houston-area men nearly drove their SUV straight through a house as they tried to elude an angry bar owner, the Houston Chronicle reports. What set this off? They had plastered the owner's truck with paintballs after getting bounced from his bar.... More »

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(Newser) - The holder of the Guinness World Record for longest fingernails lost her honor in a traffic accident, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Lee Redmond of Utah, who started growing the nails in 1979 and reached a total length of 28 feet and 4.5 inches, suffered the loss of... More »

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car crash • Salt Lake City • Utah • Guinness World Record • Lee Redmond • fingernail

 59 Vehicle Pile-Up 
 Shuts Highway 

100 injured but none seriously

Jan 12, 09 5:07 AM CST
(Newser) - A New Hampshire highway was shut down yesterday when 59 vehicles, including three buses and two tractor trailers, piled into one another in a snowstorm. Interstate 93 was closed for several hours as 100 injured people were treated at the scene, reports the Manchester Union Leader. Some 15 people were... More »

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car crash • highways • snow • highway crash • I-93 • multi-vehicle pileup • Derry Fire Department

(Newser) - A wayward Honda smashed into an SUV carrying the two daughters of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen today, but both girls are unhurt, TMZ reports. Their nanny was driving Sam and Lola Rose Sheen, 4 and 3, up the Pacific Coast Highway when a Honda cut them off, causing a... More »

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Hollywood • car crash • Charlie Sheen • Denise Richards

 'Shattered' Hand  
 Forces Shia Off Film 

Hampered by car-crash injury, actor quits Dark Fields

Dec 6, 08 10:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Continuing trouble with his left hand, ravaged in a rollover car crash, has forced Shia LaBeouf to quit the upcoming tech flick Dark Fields, E! Online reports. The actor’s injury had already slowed production. He’s due for a second surgery to fix his thumb; an initial operation immediately... More »

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Shia LaBeouf • film • car crash • injury

Webcam on Board, Teen Drivers on Alert

Mom and Dad monitor kids' driving, hoping for more road safety

Oct 24, 08 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - If a pilot program sees good results, teen drivers may soon find themselves under surveillance, reports the Washington Post. Parents in southern Maryland find the new webcam system, which records possible unsafe driving practices, a useful tool. Their offspring, however, aren't thrilled at the prospect of losing one of their... More »

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parenting • car crash • surveillance • road safety • teenage drivers • webcam

Deputy Admits Gay Affair With Austrian Rightist

Boyfriend comes clean after Haider's fatal car crash, loses job

Oct 23, 08 10:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - The successor of the Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider lost his position yesterday after admitting that he had a sexual relationship with the firebrand politician, who died in a car crash last week. "He was the man of my life. Our relationship went far beyond friendship," said... More »

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Austria • drunk driving • car crash • affair • gays • extreme right • Joerg Haider

Far Right
Austrian Leader
Dies in Crash

He rose to power in
late '90s on strength
of anti-Semitic views

Oct 11, 08 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - A right-wing Austrian politician who sparked controversy with rhetoric viewed as pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic was killed today in a car accident, CNN reports. Joerg Haider, 58, was driving alone when he left the road, hit a concrete post, and flipped several times, said a witness. When Haider's anti-immigration Freedom Party... More »

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Austria • car crash • governor • politician

 Shia Won't Face DUI Charges 

Other driver to be charged in crash that crushed star's hand

Sep 26, 08 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A lack of evidence means Indiana Jones star Shia LaBeouf won't face DUI charges for the July car crash that crushed his hand, People reports. Prosecutors plan instead to file charges against the other driver, who ran a red light. The sheriff's office no longer has a beef with LaBeouf,... More »

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Shia LaBeouf • DUI • celebrity • car crash

(Newser) - Four British relatives of actress Helena Bonham Carter died this week in a safari bus crash, the London Times reports. The minibus punctured a tire and overturned 6 hours outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, killing Carter's cousin Fiona Bonham Carter, 51, and three relatives including Fiona's mother. The Oscar-nominated actress... More »

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South Africa • car crash • safari • accident • Helena Bonham Carter

 Freeman
 Seriously Hurt
 in Car Accident 

71-year old actor injured in Miss.

Aug 4, 08 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Actor Morgan Freeman is in serious condition after a car crash in Mississippi last night, reports the AP. The 71-year-old Oscar winner was airlifted 90 miles to a Memphis hospital after flipping his car several times. A business partner of Freeman's said he suffered some fractures but is expected to... More »

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Morgan Freeman • car crash • actor

LaBeouf's Left Hand 'Crushed' in Crash

Transformers sequel will be altered to include star's injury

Aug 1, 08 8:53 PM CDT
(AP) - Shia LaBeouf's hand was "crushed" in the wreck that flipped his truck last weekend, and he still runs the risk of infection and other complications after a four-hour surgery, his lawyer said today. The actor has been recovering at a Los Angeles hospital since the surgery and "will... More »

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Shia LaBeouf • film • car accident • car crash • injury • movies

 Funny Car Racer 
 Killed in NHRA Crash 

Kalitta's car erupts in flames at 300 mph

Jun 22, 08 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Drag racer Scott Kalitta was killed yesterday after his Funny Car burst into flames as it crashed in an NHRA race, AP reports. The Toyota Solara driven by the 46-year-old former Top Fuel champ had been going 300 mph in a race to qualify for the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals... More »

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car crash • drag racing • traffic fatalities

Hulk Hogan Son Thrown Down For 8 Months

17-year-old pleads
no contest to reckless driving charge

May 10, 08 8:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hulk Hogan's son has been sentenced to 8 months in a Florida jail for his part in an accident that left his best friend, a former Marine, critically injured and likely to spend the rest of his life in a nursing home. Nick Bollea pleaded no contest to charges of... More »

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 2 Dead, 21 Hurt in
 Chicago Truck Crash 

Semi barrels into bus stop and train station during rush hour

Apr 25, 08 9:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - A speeding semitruck barreled into a Chicago train station today, killing two people and injuring 21—11 critically, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Coming off a freeway in rush hour, the truck hit a bus stop, wedged under a train overpass, and crashed "several steps" up the train platform escalator,... More »

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car accident • car crash • trucks • accidental death • traffic accident

Mother and 4 Kids Killed in
Iowa Home

Fatal car crash
nearby linked
to husband

Mar 25, 08 5:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mother and her four children were found dead in their Iowa City home yesterday by police who received an anonymous tip, reports the Daily Iowan. Minutes later, cops responded to a nearby highway crash involving a car belonging to the father of the family, Stephen Sueppel. The dead driver... More »

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Iowa • crime • theft • cocaine • murder • car crash • Iowa City • embezzlement • killings • shooting • Stephen Sueppel

Are Car Roofs Tough Enough?

US regulators consider stricter strength-to-weight standard

Mar 3, 08 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Three-quarters of vehicles on the road today would fail a proposed tougher standard for automobile roof strength, reports the Wall Street Journal. The current standard, unchanged since 1973, requires that car roofs withstand a force equivalent to 1.5 times the vehicle’s weight, but it exempts those more than... More »

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car crash • auto industry • car safety • SUVs • car roof strength • rollover • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration • roof crush • cars

8 Killed in Street Race Crash

At least 3 more injured, including driver, on Maryland speed strip

Feb 16, 08 3:06 PM CST
(Newser) - A driver skidded into a crowd of street-race spectators in Maryland this morning and killed eight people, but later told police he was not part of the race, the Washington Post reports. The driver and at least four others were injured in the crash, which also killed the car's passenger.... More »

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Maryland • car accident • police • car crash • street racing • traffic fatalities

Pulp Fiction Screenwriter Busted in Crash

Avary arrested for DUI in collision that killed guest, injured wife

Jan 14, 08 1:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Pulp Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary was arrested last night on charges of manslaughter and driving under the influence after he crashed his car in Ventura County, Calif., killing a passenger and injuring Avary's wife. Avary is free on $50,000 bail and his wife is recovering in the hospital. She... More »

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car crash • Roger Avary • Pulp Fiction

Diana, Dodi Split Before Crash, Friend Tells Inquest

Princess described the affair as 'all over'

Jan 7, 08 3:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed had already broken up when they were killed in a car crash, a family friend of Diana's told the inquest into her death today. When Rodney Turner objected to the relationship weeks before the accident, he says, Diana told him, "Don't fuss, don't fuss.... More »

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Princess Diana • car crash • accident • Diana inquest • Dodi Fayed • Hasnat Khan • Rodney Turner

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