Blog Posts in December, 2011
Posted on Dec 20, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
Police said a pedestrian was fatally injured at 6:34 a.m. Tuesday when he was struck by a car on 20th Street near Nash Street. Maj. Jeff Connor said Gary W. Hildreth, 64, of Granite City apparently ...
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Posted on Dec 20, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
Two people, including the driver of a WICS Channel 20 vehicle, were taken to the hospital after a three-vehicle crash involving a semi tractor-trailer that shut down a part of Jefferson ...
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Posted on Dec 19, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
Three people were injured early this morning when a semitrailer and car collided head-on in Liberty. The collision occurred about 4:45 a.m. along Missouri 291 near South Missouri Street. Three people ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
The driver of a motor scooter died early this morning after the scooter and pickup truck collided on Missouri 291 in Lee's Summit. A passenger on the scooter and the driver and passenger of the ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
A woman involved in an accident at Sixth Street and North Grand Avenue Wednesday afternoon was treated and released at Memorial Medical Center. Charlotte A. Rebbe, 77, of the 900 block of Seventh ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
Logging equipment toppled from a truck and into the path of an oncoming vehicle on the narrow Champ Clark Bridge, killing a Lake Saint Louis man, authorities said Thursday morning. Kyle David Brown, ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
Independence police are investigating an incident this morning where a child was injured when struck by a vehicle. The child was hit about 6:55 a.m. in the 500 block of North Ponca Drive. The child ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
A 23-year-old woman suffered a skull fracture and brain bleed after she was struck while walking in the street in south Kansas City Saturday night. Kansas City police are still looking for the driver, ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
A Carthage woman was killed in a Saturday afternoon crash in Jasper County that injured five others. A Missouri Highway Patrol report said Elvia Vicente, 24, died after she and three other people were ...
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Posted on Dec 11, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
A woman from Phillipsburg died Saturday after an out-of-control truck crossed the center line and struck her car, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported. Donna K. Lamkins, 67, died in the crash, which ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
A 43-year-old Kansas City man was struck and killed by a vehicle at 71st Terrace and North Brighton Avenue on Thursday morning, police said. The name of the victim has not been released. Police were ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
A weather-related crash early Tuesday resulted in minor injuries to five Morrisville school students when their bus was rear-ended by a car. The students, ranging in age from 8 to 16, were taken to ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
A Prairie Village woman sustained a minor foot injury when a vehicle crashed into her home earlier today. The accident, which involved two vehicles, was reported just before 6 a.m. at 75th Street and ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
One driver was taken to the hospital after an accident Saturday on Kansas 10 in an apparent road-rage encounter that tangled three cars in wreckage and narrowly missed cracking up two other vehilcles. ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
Two people were killed and two others injured when a tractor-trailer and a car crashed about 6:15 p.m. Thursday near U.S. 69 and Missouri 116 in Clinton County, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2011 By Samuel M. Wendt
A pedestrian who was reportedly struck by a train Thursday evening is expected to live, the Kansas City Fire Department said. Emergency responders were sent to the 8600 block of Northeast Underground ...
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