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World A man who lay dying in a car wreck was given the chance to say farewell to his family thanks to the quick thinking of a group of police officers. Michael Bradshaw, 72, was suffering from serious injuries including broken legs after a head-on car crash in the English city of Chesterfield last October. The driver in the other car, Daniel Spooner, 30, died at the scene that officers described as “carnage.” Fearing that Mr Bradshaw’s car would also burst into flames, officers managed to haul him from his seat to give him first aid. Police officer Toby Meek who was one of the first on the scene said one car was completely crushed which then started to smoke. Recommended Slideshows 76 The Most Powerful Military Forces in the World 59 The 25 Most Powerful Passports in the World 61 Every World Press Photo Winner Ever: 60 Images That Define Our World “Unfortunately, there was nothing that we could do for the person in the crushed car … [Read more...] about Heroic Cops Pull Dying Man from Car Wreck So He Could Say Goodbye to His Family for the Last Time

A 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old brother survived alone for about two days after they were passengers in a single-car wreck that killed their mother in south Arkansas. The older boy was found first, wandering alone on Monday morning along a road in Camden, about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southwest of Little Rock, the Ouachita County Sheriff Office said. Authorities posted the boy's photo online in hopes of identifying him and learned that his mother hadn't been seen for days. Later Monday, police returned to the area where the boy was found and discovered a wrecked car in a deep ravine not visible from the road. Authorities found the body of the boy's mother, who had been ejected from the car, and his 1-year-old brother awake and alert in his car seat. Investigators believe the wreck happened two days earlier and that the older boy was able to climb out of the wreckage. Christopher Lee Watts was charged with five counts of murder Monday for the deaths of his wife Shanann Watts and … [Read more...] about Toddlers Survive Alone for Days After Car Wreck Kills Mother

close Video SC GOP House candidate Katie Arrington injured in car crash Rep. Steve Scalise reacts on 'Fox & Friends' after South Carolina congressional candidate Katie Arrington is seriously injured in a car accident. Republican congressional candidate Katie Arrington plans to stay in the race to represent South Carolina’s 1st District after sustaining severe injuries in a car crash over the weekend that left her in critical condition. During a press conference Monday with Sen. Tim Scott and doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina, Arrington spokesman Michael Mule said she would continue her campaign. Arrington, who ousted incumbent Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., in the June 12 primary, was seriously injured on Friday in a car wreck that left one person dead. In a statement posted to Facebook on Saturday, her campaign said that she underwent surgery after she was injured when a driver traveling in the wrong direction hit her car. A friend who was also … [Read more...] about GOP candidate Katie Arrington to continue campaign after car wreck, doctors optimistic

Emma Kinery, Bloomberg Published 7:56 am PDT, Wednesday, August 1, 2018 It's not Super Bowl Sunday or even New Year's Eve that makes for the most lethal day on U.S. highways. It's Aug. 2. Thursday is when, on average, car wrecks are likely to kill more Americans than any other day of the year, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which based its calculations on fatalities from 2012 to 2016. A total of 505 people were killed on that day during the period. Since the culprit isn't icy roads or drunken revelers, what makes that seemingly random date on the calendar so lethal? Sunny skies and vacation travelers, the same reasons the month of August is also one of the deadliest, says Becca Weast, a research scientist at IIHS. GET ALERTS: "In the summer, the weather is nice, sunny, and people just are a little more reckless, they're a little less careful," Weast said. When the weather is bad or there are other obvious risks that make driving more … [Read more...] about Aug. 2, the deadliest day of the year for car wrecks in America

Stateline, ContributorStateline provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy. When drones help police reconstruct crash scenes, roads reopen more quickly. 08/06/2018 10:35 am ET By Jenni Bergal When police investigators tried to figure out what caused a multi-vehicle crash that killed an elderly woman in Morton, Illinois, last month, they looked to the sky for help. Like a growing number of police agencies throughout the country, the sheriff’s office in Tazewell County relied on a drone to quickly take photographs of the scene from on high to help investigators reconstruct the crash. “It’s about a hundred times more detailed than what we could do with people taking the measurements,” Chief Deputy Jeff Lower said. “And it means that there’s much less time for the road to be closed and traffic to be backed up.” For decades, police investigators at crash scenes used chalk marks, tape measures and roller-wheels to … [Read more...] about Another Use For Drones: Investigating Car Wrecks