Truck accident results in home evacuations

Ohio authorities evacuated more than 200 homes in northeast Ohio in December after two vehicles struck a bridge. The collision caused a gas line to rupture. That endangered people in the area, and also threatened the structural integrity of the overpass. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a truck crashed into the Niles-Vienna overpass. That incident resulted in two other accidents that resulted in one death in addition to the ruptured has line. State Route 11 between Interstate 80 and state Route 82 had to be shut down while officials examined the bridge.

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Firemen suspended after fatal crash

Two Baltimore firemen have been suspended without pay following an accident in which their fire truck crashed into a sport utility vehicle. Three occupants of the SUV died in the crash. Nathaniel Moore, the driver of the fire truck, and Lieutenant Thomas Moore were suspended pending a hearing. Their fire truck was the third of four fire vehicles traveling north on Park Heights Avenue on their way to a fire. Details of the administrative charges brought against the two were not revealed, but they were said to involve operating an emergency vehicle in an unsafe manner.

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Truck driver ticketed in fatal crash

Police in Mattoon, Ill. ticketed a truck driver for failure to yield in an accident that claimed the life of Jason Alexander. The accident happened when Daniel Zacha of Stewardson turned his Coca-Cola truck in front of Alexander’s van. Alexander died later in the emergency room of Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center.