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Ten years after the first of three traffic fatalities at a Mabton, Washington raidroad crossing, the state is finally installing a crossing gate to protect motorists. The state has approved a $20,000 grant to pay for a crossing gate at the intersections of state routes 241 and 22, this is where three drivers have died starting in 1997. There are warning lights that flash when a train is...

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Yesterday, a Puyallup man who police say was racing in his car along westbound Highway 512 near Puyallup was killed when his car collided with a semi-truck this morning. The man, 30, was killed after he lost control of his car and crossed the median, striking an eastbound semi-truck head on near Portland Avenue East around 2 a.m.The truck driver, 45, was treated for minor injuries and released....

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A bus that was carrying employees for the Montana State Prison to work hit a deer and flipped over on Friday, November 16, killing 1 person and injuring 21. The accident, which occurred at 5:30 a.m., was transporting 26 people and flipped into the median of Interstate 90, 50 miles southwest of Helena.Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Rodger Kenney said a front tire of the bus hit the deer and it...

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A Bellevue woman who was severely injured three years ago in a collision involving a State Patrol trooper has been awarded a $4 million settlement. The victim was home for the 2004 winter holidays when her vehicle was T-boned by former Trooper Josh Stuart's.Terlinchamp suffered traumatic brain injuries and required months to recover, according to a lawsuit she filed last year in King County...

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Snow has been blamed for dozens of accidents in the Kittitas Valley of central Washington. Few significant injuries were reported. Light overnight snow also was followed by a rash of accidents the next morning in Spokane. State troopers told KHQ Television at least six collisions had occurred by about daybreak, including a number along I-90 west of town.

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A 17-year-old was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center after the car he was driving went under a cable barrier near Centralia and struck a southbound pickup truck Wednesday morning. The driver remained in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center today. The driver of the truck suffered minor injuries and was treated and released at a local hospital.

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The Tacoma Fire Department reports five adults and two children were taken to area hospitals after a van-car crash. The crash occurred in south Tacoma. Nine people were riding in the two vehicles. No one sustained life-threatening injuries. The Tacoma Fire Department sent four engines, four medic units, two ladder companies and six ambulances to the crash scene because there were so many people...

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A freight train hit a semi that drove into its path at East Marginal Way South and South Spokane Street on Wednesday afternoon. Nobody was injured in the collision, in which a train broadsided a tractor-trailer that had driven into its path. Flashing lights and warning devices were in use at the railway crossing, said BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas. The train, which was en route to the railroad's...

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Residents of the Benton county town of Paterson are mourning the death of the elementary school's music teacher. Deborah Tegland was killed in a collision with a semi0truck while driving to school Friday on Highway 14.In addition to teaching piano, Tegland organized school talent shows three times a year, started an after-school music club and was raising money for her students to have a...

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A missing skydiving plane was located Monday, October 8 at around 7:40 PM in the rugged central Washington Cascades. None of the nine passengers or the pilot were found alive. The plane went missing en route to Shelton, Washington, northwest of Olympia and was returning from a skydiving meet. Searchers were able to verify that the wreckage they found was the missing aircraft by the serial...

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Several vehicles, including a Washington State Patrol cruiser were involved in an accident on a rain-slicked I-90 Monday morning causing a back up for drivers headed westbound. The accident happened at the SR900 interchange around 10 a.m. Initially it appeared that at least three vehicles were involved. One ended up crashing into the guard rail. The patrol cruiser also had damage to it's right...

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Under a federal rule passed by in 2005, all trains are required to sound their horns at every street and highway crossing unless it's a quiet zone. The same rule states that quiet zones at about 2,000 of the United States' 147,000 public rail crossings have been created by state or local law, according to USA Today. "What people fail to realize is that even if you have a quiet zone, there could...

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Possible witnesses to an accident who were with a woman before she was struck by a train on Saturday say that she will be interviewed today, according to Saline Township Police Chief Jen Hays.Hays said 26-year-old Jamie Rose of Salineville "is in very serious condition. Details of her condition are only being released to her family."Rose was initially treated at the scene by Saline Township,...

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On Sunday evening a Sport Utility Vehicle hit a patrol car that left the Everett Police Officer and her K-9 dog with serious injuries.Investigators suspect that K-9 Officer Suzanne Eviston -- a 10-year veteran of the Everett department -- may have been struck by one of the burglars she was on her way to apprehend, Sgt. Robert Goetz said in a statement.For more information on this subject matter,...

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On Friday afternoon, a two car accident injured eight people and had one man sent to Harborview Medical Center with possible life-threatening injuries.The T-bone accident occurred around 4 p.m. at Southwest 108th Street and Sixth Avenue Southwest, said Lt. Will Spruill of King County Fire District 2. It involved a Honda Civic and a Volvo sedan.The most badly injured man is in his 20s, Spruill...

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