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Police confirmed with USA TODAY that the driver was fatally shot by police. "Perpetrator was shot by NOPD officers and killed," said Karen Boudrie, public relations specialist with New Orleans police.
[13] [14] However, according to the Federal Highway Police, the collision likely occurred when a granite block fell from the truck and hit the bus, which consequently lost control and caught fire. [15] Afterward, a Fiat Argo car collided with the back of the truck. Its occupants were trapped underneath the vehicle, but survived. [14]
Hundreds of car accidents were reported in Virginia, Indiana, Kansas and Kentucky, where a state trooper was treated for non-life-threatening injuries after his patrol car was hit on Interstate 65.
April 5 – Côte d'Ivoire – At least 14 people were killed in two separate accidents on the highway linking Abidjan to the north of the country. [ 316 ] April 14 – Egypt – 20 people were killed and three injured when a bus collided with a truck and caught fire in Asyut .
Washington State Patrol troopers responded Wednesday morning to a two-vehicle crash on state Route 507 just south of Roy. One driver died in the collision. Both vehicles had one occupant.
Ultimately resulting in 14 deaths, the collision is the deadliest and one of the worst in the history of Tennessee. [4] [5] The collision led to outcry from politicians and citizens calling for traffic safety and infrastructure improvements, such as highway widenings, and the completion of Interstate 81 in Tennessee. [6]
Two teenagers in New Orleans, La., have died in a car crash after colliding with several people accused of shoplifting in another car, the New Orleans Police Department confirms to PEOPLE.
A traffic collision in Japan, 2007 The aftermath of an accident involving a jackknifing truck, Mozambique, Africa. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.