Policeman pulls soldier from burning car
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Dec 20, 2010 17:09:13 EST
RAYMOND, N.H. — A Raymond police officer is being credited with saving the life of a soldier home from overseas deployment by pulling him out of a burning car.
Police say Officer Ryan Lehman was nearby when he heard the report of a crash on a Route 101 off-ramp early Sunday morning. He could see the car in the woods, so instead of driving, he ran toward it, arriving just as the vehicle became engulfed in flames.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Camp Pendleton, 19 year old Marine loses leg after freeway crash
Marine loses leg after freeway crash
By ALEJANDRA MOLINA
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
A 19-year-old Marine lost his left leg after he crashed into a guardrail Thursday on the southbound I-5 as he was headed to Camp Pendleton for his morning assignment.
It was about 5:07 a.m. on Thursday when Lance Cpl. Jordon Sickinger veered to the right, crashed into a metal guardrail and rolled over near El Toro Road, the California Highway Patrol said.
A passenger, who is also a Marine, pulled Sickinger out of the car and administered first aid to his wounds, said Donya Larson, who is Sickinger's mom.
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Marine loses leg after freeway crash
By ALEJANDRA MOLINA
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
A 19-year-old Marine lost his left leg after he crashed into a guardrail Thursday on the southbound I-5 as he was headed to Camp Pendleton for his morning assignment.
It was about 5:07 a.m. on Thursday when Lance Cpl. Jordon Sickinger veered to the right, crashed into a metal guardrail and rolled over near El Toro Road, the California Highway Patrol said.
A passenger, who is also a Marine, pulled Sickinger out of the car and administered first aid to his wounds, said Donya Larson, who is Sickinger's mom.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Off-Duty Marion Deputy Pulls Woman From Burning Car
Off-Duty Marion Deputy Pulls Woman From Burning Car
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:43:03 PM
Reported By Heather Sorentrue
BELLEVIEW -- Quick thinking and selflessness likely saved a woman's life Tuesday night.
An off-duty Marion County Sheriff's deputy was driving down county Road 467 when he saw across a car on its side, on fire and managed to free the driver who was trapped inside.
The driver, Kathleen Powell of Ocala, was taken to the hospital after the crash, but she was treated and released.
Around 10:50 p.m. Tuesday, off-duty Deputy Jonah Music spotted a vehicle turned on its side against a fence with flames coming from underneath.
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Off Duty Marion Deputy Pulls Woman From Burning Car
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:43:03 PM
Reported By Heather Sorentrue
BELLEVIEW -- Quick thinking and selflessness likely saved a woman's life Tuesday night.
An off-duty Marion County Sheriff's deputy was driving down county Road 467 when he saw across a car on its side, on fire and managed to free the driver who was trapped inside.
The driver, Kathleen Powell of Ocala, was taken to the hospital after the crash, but she was treated and released.
Around 10:50 p.m. Tuesday, off-duty Deputy Jonah Music spotted a vehicle turned on its side against a fence with flames coming from underneath.
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Devastating death rate from crashes sounds the alarm at Veterans Affairs
In the first years after returning from deployment, veterans of the two wars are 75 percent more likely to die in motor vehicle accidents than civilians of comparable age, race, and sex, according to a 2008 VA study. The rate for motorcycle deaths is an astounding 148 percent higher.
For returning vets, a tragic toll on the roads
Devastating death rate from crashes sounds the alarm at Veterans Affairs
By Brian MacQuarrie
Globe Staff
July 26, 2009
NORTHAMPTON - For Dominic Taverna, a two-tour Army scout who prowled Iraq for insurgents, the dream of peace and quiet lost some of its appeal when he returned to Revere in 2007.
“I was looking for that rush, and you just couldn’t find it,’’ said Taverna, 28, staring past his folded hands. “You’re driving 90 all the time. You’re hauling ass under overpasses. You just can’t flip a switch.’’
Former Army sergeant Carlton Duncan, 26, nodded knowingly. He would drink too much, Duncan said, before grasping the wheel of his car and driving without any memory of where he went or how he got there.
Dominick Sondrini, 28, a former Marine officer, raced his car for the pure thrill of driving 90 miles per hour, “because I knew I wasn’t going to get in trouble.’’ Police nearly always allowed Sondrini, who would flash his military ID after a traffic stop, to drive away without a ticket, he said.
Dangerous driving is often a byproduct of military bravado, the three veterans said. But among survivors of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the practice is now seen as a deadly crisis, prompting the Department of Veterans Affairs to take unprecedented preventive action.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Good Samaritan saves 3 year old from burning car
Good Samaritan: I was pretty shook up
Thursday, July 23, 2009
By Rob McMillan
EL MONTE, Calif. (KABC) -- A Good Samaritan is being hailed as a life-saving hero after a daring freeway rescue.
John McDonald said he was on his way to work in Venice as he drove past the burning car, flipped on its side on the 10 Freeway.
Three people were able to get out of the car on their own, but a 3-year-old girl was trapped inside. That's when McDonald stopped his car and pulled the girl from the burning vehicle.
"Honestly I don't think about that stuff too much it just sort of happened. I think most people would have done it if they were in my position," said McDonald.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
By Rob McMillan
EL MONTE, Calif. (KABC) -- A Good Samaritan is being hailed as a life-saving hero after a daring freeway rescue.
John McDonald said he was on his way to work in Venice as he drove past the burning car, flipped on its side on the 10 Freeway.
Three people were able to get out of the car on their own, but a 3-year-old girl was trapped inside. That's when McDonald stopped his car and pulled the girl from the burning vehicle.
"Honestly I don't think about that stuff too much it just sort of happened. I think most people would have done it if they were in my position," said McDonald.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Pasco school bus crash victim testifies about his shattered life
Pasco school bus crash victim testifies about his shattered life
By Molly Moorhead, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Thursday, July 23, 2009
DADE CITY — When Marcus Button awoke from his medically induced coma and was able to speak again, it was with a deep Southern accent even his parents didn't recognize.
He expressed a newfound hatred for white people even though he is white. He thought he had been in outer space and to Thailand. He saw spiders.
"My son who woke up, he was not the same son I gave birth to," his mother, Robin Button, testified.
"He wasn't the same boy," said his father, Mark.
In court Wednesday, they were recalling the weeks after a 2006 car crash that left their son with head injuries. Button, then 16, was riding in a friend's car when a school bus struck them on State Road 54 in Wesley Chapel. The friend escaped with minor injuries. The bus driver was determined to be at fault.
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By Molly Moorhead, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Thursday, July 23, 2009
DADE CITY — When Marcus Button awoke from his medically induced coma and was able to speak again, it was with a deep Southern accent even his parents didn't recognize.
He expressed a newfound hatred for white people even though he is white. He thought he had been in outer space and to Thailand. He saw spiders.
"My son who woke up, he was not the same son I gave birth to," his mother, Robin Button, testified.
"He wasn't the same boy," said his father, Mark.
In court Wednesday, they were recalling the weeks after a 2006 car crash that left their son with head injuries. Button, then 16, was riding in a friend's car when a school bus struck them on State Road 54 in Wesley Chapel. The friend escaped with minor injuries. The bus driver was determined to be at fault.
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Divers search for Pfc. Jamie Wagner Sengvanhpheng
Divers searching for missing Bragg soldierMcALLEN, Texas — Searchers continued combing a South Texas bay Sunday for a soldier who authorities believe drove his car off the end of a pier the day after Christmas.
Pfc. Jamie Wagner Sengvanhpheng, 21, was home on leave from Fort Bragg, N.C. and visiting family in Rockport when he disappeared after hanging out with friends at a bar late Christmas night.
His 2004 Acura was found submerged in Copano Bay Friday, but Sengvanhpheng was not inside.
A body had not been recovered so the search continued, a dispatcher with the Aransas County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.
Older brother James Sengvanhpheng said there were no developments and declined to say more while his brother remained missing.
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Pfc. Jamie Wagner Sengvanhpheng, 21, was home on leave from Fort Bragg, N.C. and visiting family in Rockport when he disappeared after hanging out with friends at a bar late Christmas night.
His 2004 Acura was found submerged in Copano Bay Friday, but Sengvanhpheng was not inside.
A body had not been recovered so the search continued, a dispatcher with the Aransas County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.
Older brother James Sengvanhpheng said there were no developments and declined to say more while his brother remained missing.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Recalled 12 year old spare tired causes fatal crash
How a 12-year-old recalled tire caused a crash that killed one man, paralyzed another
Rene Stutzman | Sentinel Staff Writer
November 24, 2008
SANFORD - The tire was a Firestone ATX, the subject of one of the nation's biggest consumer-product recalls. Millions of Americans read or heard news reports about it in 2000 and 2001, warning that it was dangerous.
But for a decade this particular tire was just a spare, bolted to the underside of an aging Ford Explorer.
A lawsuit settled in October revealed how in 2005 -- long after consumers and mechanics had stopped checking -- this tire did exactly what safety officials feared: It shredded at 65 mph.
Rotated into service on the right rear hub of the 1993 sport utility vehicle, the tire flew apart on Interstate 4 near Sanford, and the Explorer went out of control.
Its driver, Michael Enriquez, a Deltona father of four on his way home from work, hit the brakes. The vehicle skidded across the median, flipped and plowed head-on into an Infiniti driven by Douglas George Gibson, 56, of Orlando.
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Rene Stutzman | Sentinel Staff Writer
November 24, 2008
SANFORD - The tire was a Firestone ATX, the subject of one of the nation's biggest consumer-product recalls. Millions of Americans read or heard news reports about it in 2000 and 2001, warning that it was dangerous.
But for a decade this particular tire was just a spare, bolted to the underside of an aging Ford Explorer.
A lawsuit settled in October revealed how in 2005 -- long after consumers and mechanics had stopped checking -- this tire did exactly what safety officials feared: It shredded at 65 mph.
Rotated into service on the right rear hub of the 1993 sport utility vehicle, the tire flew apart on Interstate 4 near Sanford, and the Explorer went out of control.
Its driver, Michael Enriquez, a Deltona father of four on his way home from work, hit the brakes. The vehicle skidded across the median, flipped and plowed head-on into an Infiniti driven by Douglas George Gibson, 56, of Orlando.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Drunk driver hits police car at police department
14 min ago
Halle Stockton
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 3:53 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 4:28 p.m.
BRADENTON -
A Bradenton man was arrested on a DUI charge after he rammed into the passenger side of a stopped Bradenton Police Department patrol car at about 10 a.m. Wednesday.
William J. Hoppes, 54, was likely intoxicated when his Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck veered across the roadway and smacked the right front side of the patrol car, pushing it about 10 feet, the Bradenton Police Department said.
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Halle Stockton
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 3:53 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 4:28 p.m.
BRADENTON -
A Bradenton man was arrested on a DUI charge after he rammed into the passenger side of a stopped Bradenton Police Department patrol car at about 10 a.m. Wednesday.
William J. Hoppes, 54, was likely intoxicated when his Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck veered across the roadway and smacked the right front side of the patrol car, pushing it about 10 feet, the Bradenton Police Department said.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
SUV carrying 19 rolls over kills 9
At least 9 dead in SUV rollover south of Phoenix
Thursday, August 7, 2008
(08-07) 11:42 PDT Florence, Ariz. (AP) --
A packed sport utility vehicle rolled over on a rural highway southwest of Phoenix, killing at least nine people Thursday, authorities said.
The SUV that rolled on State Route 79, about 80 miles southeast of Phoenix, had 19 people aboard, Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves said. The other 10 occupants were injured and were taken to hospitals in Phoenix and Tucson.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
(08-07) 11:42 PDT Florence, Ariz. (AP) --
A packed sport utility vehicle rolled over on a rural highway southwest of Phoenix, killing at least nine people Thursday, authorities said.
The SUV that rolled on State Route 79, about 80 miles southeast of Phoenix, had 19 people aboard, Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves said. The other 10 occupants were injured and were taken to hospitals in Phoenix and Tucson.
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Morgan Freeman injured in car accident
Morgan Freeman injured in car accident
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in serious condition at a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital after being involved in a car accident Sunday night, according to hospital officials. CNN affilliate WMC-TV of Memphis reports Freeman was in a wreck in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, about 100 miles south of Memphis. full story
Send prayers out to him. He's one of the best actors we have. I love every movie he's in.
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in serious condition at a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital after being involved in a car accident Sunday night, according to hospital officials. CNN affilliate WMC-TV of Memphis reports Freeman was in a wreck in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, about 100 miles south of Memphis. full story
Send prayers out to him. He's one of the best actors we have. I love every movie he's in.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Springfield MA soldier dies in Germany
Soldier dies in car accident in Grafenwöhr; police search for cause
Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Police are seeking information on a gold Ford that might have been involved in a fatal auto accident early Friday morning in downtown Grafenwöhr.
Private 1st Class Jose M. Castro, 21, of Springfield, Mass., and the Grafenwöhr-based 12th Chemical Company died when his red Honda crashed into a stone wall at 4:25 a.m. as he was driving away from the downtown bar district. Castro was the only person in the car.
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Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Police are seeking information on a gold Ford that might have been involved in a fatal auto accident early Friday morning in downtown Grafenwöhr.
Private 1st Class Jose M. Castro, 21, of Springfield, Mass., and the Grafenwöhr-based 12th Chemical Company died when his red Honda crashed into a stone wall at 4:25 a.m. as he was driving away from the downtown bar district. Castro was the only person in the car.
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Iraq Veteran Matthew D. Hebell killed in car accident
Iraq War Veteran killed in car accident
Iraq War Veteran Matthew D. Hebell, 22 of Batavia died early Saturday morning when the vehicle he was driving struck a utility pole. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"My son was a very outstanding person," David Hebell said.
The Hebell family takes pride in serving their country. Four generations have fought in a foreign war. Like those before him, the youngest, Matthew Hebell loved the military.
"If he had his way in life, he would probably help everybody, he's just that type of boy," Mr. Hebell said.
Matthew was in the Army. He served a tour in Iraq and received several awards. He worked at the New York State Veteran's home in Batavia.
Saturday was supposed to be his day off. But he volunteered to work. It was on the drive, along Route 98 in Genesee County, that police believe Hebell fell asleep at the wheel. He crashed into a telephone pole and was pronounced dead at the scene.
"He had a big career coming and it was just big loss for me, my wife and my family and all the people who knew him," said Matthew's father.
His family said, at 22, Matthew achieved more than most people. He often volunteered to work.
Sylvia Hebell, Matthew's stepmother said, "One of our greatest moments was when Matt came home from leave in Iraq."
But one of his greatest accomplishments was for his father, who was forced to drop out of school to fight in the Vietnam War. During a 2-week leave from Iraq, Matthew helped his father finally get a high school diploma.
"That's just the kind of guy Matt was that was the first thing he did when he came home on leave," Sylvia said.
His father was looking forward to one thing this summer walking, hand in hand, with his son, another veteran during a parade.
David Hebell will still take that walk and his son, will no doubt, be right there with him.
“I was very fortunate that I had a son like him," David said.
Matthew's father said he enjoyed working with the older veterans at the home in Batavia. A spokesperson for the veterans home said this is a devastating loss and their hearts are broken.
Matthew Hebell will be buried with full military honors on Wednesday. Calling hours are Tuesday from 3 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the McAndrew Funeral Home in Batavia.
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Iraq War Veteran Matthew D. Hebell, 22 of Batavia died early Saturday morning when the vehicle he was driving struck a utility pole. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"My son was a very outstanding person," David Hebell said.
The Hebell family takes pride in serving their country. Four generations have fought in a foreign war. Like those before him, the youngest, Matthew Hebell loved the military.
"If he had his way in life, he would probably help everybody, he's just that type of boy," Mr. Hebell said.
Matthew was in the Army. He served a tour in Iraq and received several awards. He worked at the New York State Veteran's home in Batavia.
Saturday was supposed to be his day off. But he volunteered to work. It was on the drive, along Route 98 in Genesee County, that police believe Hebell fell asleep at the wheel. He crashed into a telephone pole and was pronounced dead at the scene.
"He had a big career coming and it was just big loss for me, my wife and my family and all the people who knew him," said Matthew's father.
His family said, at 22, Matthew achieved more than most people. He often volunteered to work.
Sylvia Hebell, Matthew's stepmother said, "One of our greatest moments was when Matt came home from leave in Iraq."
But one of his greatest accomplishments was for his father, who was forced to drop out of school to fight in the Vietnam War. During a 2-week leave from Iraq, Matthew helped his father finally get a high school diploma.
"That's just the kind of guy Matt was that was the first thing he did when he came home on leave," Sylvia said.
His father was looking forward to one thing this summer walking, hand in hand, with his son, another veteran during a parade.
David Hebell will still take that walk and his son, will no doubt, be right there with him.
“I was very fortunate that I had a son like him," David said.
Matthew's father said he enjoyed working with the older veterans at the home in Batavia. A spokesperson for the veterans home said this is a devastating loss and their hearts are broken.
Matthew Hebell will be buried with full military honors on Wednesday. Calling hours are Tuesday from 3 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the McAndrew Funeral Home in Batavia.
http://www.whec.com/article/stories/S432916.shtml?cat=565
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