EDGECOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) — Three people were killed in a crash Saturday night in Edgecombe County.
The crash happened on US 64 Alt. near Kingsboro Road in an area known as “Dead Man’s Curve,” according to the Heartsease Community Fire Chief.
Investigators said the Saturn SUV was speeding and lost control, causing it to cross the center line and collide with a Dodge pickup truck coming the other way. The driver of the Saturn SUV was Jerry Lee Pollard, 39, of Tarboro.
Pollard was driving while impaired, according to investigators.
There were four passengers with Pollard inside the vehicle: Jeremy Pollard, 19, of Bethel; Brittany Marie Armstrong, 34, of Tarboro; Jhawaiun Drake, 19, of Rocky Mount; and Morgan Page, 30, of Tarboro.
The force of the crash caused the Saturn to flip over into a nearby field. Multiple passengers were thrown out of the Saturn during the crash.
Drake, Armstrong and Jeremy were killed in the crash. Page is in critical condition at Vidant Pitt Hospital.
Pollard was transported to UNC Nash with injuries.
The driver of the Dodge pickup truck was Wessie Jones Jr., 61, of Rocky Mount. He was transported to UNC Nash with injuries.
Pollard has been charged with felony death by motor vehicle, driving while impaired, speeding, reckless driving, and failure to maintain lane.
Dramatic body and dash camera footage captured the moment a Florida sheriff’s deputy saved the life of a 6-month-old baby after a motorcycle that was going more than 100 mph slammed into the vehicle the infant was in with her mom and sister.
Kayleigh Foley, the baby’s mother, told local media that Charlotte County Deputy Sergeant Dave Musgrove is a “hero” for saving her 6-month-old daughter, Lola, after the crash earlier this month. The motorcyclist died in the wreck and Lola remains hospitalized from her injuries, according to the sheriff’s office.
Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) shared a more than 4-minute clip of Musgrove’s heroic actions online, which went viral on social media where it was reshared by multiple users.
Collin Rugg, the co-owner of the Trending Politics news website, was one of the social media users to post the clip, sharing the video on X, formerly Twitter, where it quickly went viral on Sunday.
In just a few hours after it was shared by Rugg, the clip amassed nearly 350,000 views and 4,000 likes.
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NEW: Heroic Florida deputy resuscitates and saves the life of an unconscious baby after a motorcyclist slammed into the back of a car at 100+ mph.
Deputy Sgt. Dave Musgrove jumped into action after witnessing the crash.
The fatal crash happened shortly after 7:30 p.m. on February 8, when Musgrove said he was driving on South McCall Road in Englewood, Florida, when he was passed by a “motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed,” according to a February 16 statement by the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO). The motorcyclist was estimated to be driving in “excess of” 100 mph, the sheriff’s office said.
Just seconds after witnessing the motorcycle speed by, Musgrove said he then saw a “cloud of dust and smoke” ahead of him in the median area of Regina Drive, and realized that the bike had collided with a vehicle at the intersection, according to CCSO.
As Musgrove approached the scene, he saw the “shattered” motorcycle, which had come to rest in the left lane and was unoccupied, and said the other vehicle involved in the crash was between 25 and 40 feet away, CCSO said.
The motorcyclist was thrown from his bike and was “wedged into the rear window on the driver’s side of the vehicle,” CCSO said. Inside the vehicle were Foley and her two young children, 6-month-old Lola and her 3-year-old daughter, according to the sheriff’s office, which stated that the motorcyclist’s body had landed on top of the infant.
In bodycam footage shared online by CCSO, you can hear the fear in Kayleigh Foley’s voice as she pleaded for Musgrove to help her children.
“My baby! I need my baby,” she can be heard yelling amid the chaos.
A Florida deputy saved the life of a 6-month-old baby, who was not breathing when he pulled the infant out of the wreckage of a fatal accident. Authorities said a motorcyclist was traveling at an… A Florida deputy saved the life of a 6-month-old baby, who was not breathing when he pulled the infant out of the wreckage of a fatal accident. Authorities said a motorcyclist was traveling at an excess of 100 mph and slammed into a vehicle the baby was riding in with her mother and another child on February 8, 2024, in Englewood, Florida.
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The video shows Musgrove first removing the older child from her booster seat in the vehicle’s back seat before he flags down another driver for help to hold the toddler so he can rescue the baby, CCSO said.
“At this time, some bystanders approached and helped to move the motorcyclist off of the infant and cut the seat belt so that Sgt. Musgrove could remove the car seat and check on the baby,” CCSO said. “The infant had no pulse and was not breathing.”
Musgrove quickly removed the baby from the car seat and began chest compressions, the sheriff’s office said, adding that despite not observing any signs of life at first, the deputy continued compressions “until the child finally inhaled deeply.” Paramedics at the scene then took over lifesaving efforts and said they had detected a pulse. Musgrove can be heard in the footage telling first responders to give the mother an update on her baby’s condition.
“The actions of Sgt. Musgrove are to be commended,” CCSO Sheriff Bill Prummell said. “His poise and calm demeanor in a scene of chaos and tragedy ultimately saved the life of a beautiful child. I want to thank the bystanders who came to his aid as well, allowing him to focus on the immediate need of the baby.”
CCSO urges people to “please ride responsibly.”
“This was a senseless accident that resulted in a life lost, but it would have been two lives had Dave not been there,” the sheriff said. “Still, I offer my thoughts and prayers to the friends and family of the motorcyclist and I ask that you keep this mother and her children in your prayers.”
The infant’s recovery is expected to be long, as the little girl is in stable condition but intubated and sedated, according to an update on the family’s GoFundMe page.
“The baby is alive and receiving treatment thanks to Sgt. Musgrove’s efforts prior to EMS arriving,” CCSO said, noting that both the other child and the mother are doing well.
During an interview with Florida station WFLA, the baby’s mother and grandmother said they owe Musgrove “undying gratitude.”
“Because of officer Dave Musgrove, she’s still here,” said Lisa Foley, the baby’s grandmother.
“He’s our hero,” Kayleigh Foley added.
“He is,” Lisa Foley said. “He will forever be our hero. And undying gratitude from every person in our family. We will never repay him for what he did, because what he did for us was life-changing.”
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JOLIET, Ill. — Joliet police are investigating a fatal car crash overnight in which two people were killed and a driver attempted to flee the scene.
The Joliet Police Department reports that an officer on patrol discovered a crash with injuries just after 2 a.m. Sunday near Black Road and 129th Infantry Drive.
Police say after a preliminary investigation, they determined that a Chevy Tahoe driven by a 19-year-old male from Crest Hill was driving north on Infantry Drive, approaching Black Road. As the Tahoe entered the intersection, according to police, it hit the driver’s side of a Chevy Trailblazer that was going west and being driven by a 65-year-old male from Joliet.
According to police, the collision caused the Trailblazer to go off the road and strike a fire hydrant before overturning onto its passenger side.
Immediately after the crash, police say, the 19-year-old driver of the Tahoe and an unknown male passenger tried to run from the crash scene. Officers quickly stopped the driver, but the passenger was not located.
The Joliet Fire Department responded to the scene and tried to extricate the male driver and a female passenger from the overturned Trailblazer. However, both were pronounced dead at the scene by the Will County Coroner’s Office, which will determine the identification of the victims and the manner of death,
The crash remains under investigation by the Joliet Police Traffic Unit. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Traffic Unit at 815-724-3010.
(FOX40.COM) — A man has been arrested by Modesto police officers for his role in a homicide that happened on Friday night, according to the Modesto Police Department.
The man, a 32-year-old from Ceres, turned himself in to police in the downtown area of the city around 3 p.m., the agency said.
On Friday night around 9 p.m., police responded to the area of 6th Street at the Highway 99 offramp to assist California Highway Patrol officers with a vehicle crash involving a pedestrian.
Police said that upon arrival, the involved vehicle fled the scene while the pedestrian was taken to a local hospital. The woman would later be declared dead by medical personnel.
Detectives began to investigate and learned that an assault had taken place, police said. As the investigation continued, detectives were able to identify a suspect.
“This is still an active investigation. The victim was known to [the suspect], and it appears they had been involved in a relationship. The details of the relationship are still being investigated,” police said on Facebook.
The man was booked into a Stanislaus County jail for homicide and domestic violence charges, police added.
No other information has been released, but police say that anyone with information about this investigation is encouraged to contact Detective Bolinger at 209-342-9162.
ST LOUIS — A mother and daughter from Chicago were struck by a car and killed leaving a Drake concert in St. Louis, Missouri Wednesday.
KMOV reports around 12:30 a.m., St. Louis police said the mother and daughter were walking back from the Enterprise Center where Drake performed.
Police said the driver of a Jeep Cherokee ran the lights for several blocks while also speeding. The Jeep sideswiped another car, causing it to spin and strike the two pedestrians crossing the street, police said.
The mother, in her 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene and her daughter, in her 20s, died after being taken to the hospital. Their identities have not been released.
Several passengers from the other cars hit were taken to the hospital in stable condition.
ST LOUIS — A mother and daughter from Chicago were struck by a car and killed while leaving a Drake concert in St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday.
St. Louis police said the mother and daughter were walking back from the Enterprise Center where Drake performed around 12:30 a.m. when the driver of a of a Jeep Cherokee ran a red light while also speeding, KMOV reported.
The Jeep sideswiped another car, causing it to spin and strike the two pedestrians crossing the street, police said.
The mother, in her 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene and her daughter, in her 20s, died after being taken to the hospital. Their identities have not been released.
Several passengers from the other cars hit were taken to the hospital in stable condition.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon believes it has identified the mechanical failure that led to a fatal crash of an Osprey aircraft in Japan and the grounding of the fleet for two months, a U.S. defense official told The Associated Press. It is now weighing how the aircraft can be returned to service.
The Pentagon’s Joint Safety Council is now working with the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps on their plans to get Osprey crews ready to fly again, said Navy Rear Adm. Chris Engdahl, chairman of the council and commander of Naval Safety Command.
The Air Force investigation is continuing into the Nov. 29 Air Force special operations command CV-22 crash, which killed eight service members. The crash led to a rare grounding on Dec. 6 of about 400 Osprey aircraft across the three services. Japan also grounded its fleet of 14 Ospreys following the crash.
The official who said the mechanical failure had been identified declined to say what the failure was. It has opened the door to discussions on return to flight because mitigations can be put in place. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
While each service will determine when it returns its own fleets to the skies, the council is talking with “commanders across the services on what are their plans to come back to flight, what are their risk decisions,” Engdahl said. “In aviation, they’ve done this before, but probably not on this broad scale with a platform like we have in the V-22” Osprey.
That could include getting service-wide input on how many simulator hours are needed to get a crew back to proficiency, with what type of flying, and what maintenance is needed on each Osprey before they go up in the air again, Engdahl said.
Flight safety is dependent on pilots maintaining currency on an aircraft — meaning that they are flying regularly enough to be proficient in all types of flying, such as night missions, close formation flying or refueling. After 60 days of being grounded, that will be one of the key issues the services must prepare for as the Ospreys return to flight.
They also must make sure the aircraft are ready. Both the Air Force and Marine Corps have been running the Osprey’s engines; the Marines have been conducting ground movements to keep the aircraft working.
Marine Corps leadership is also working on a message to send throughout the service that could give each unit up to 30 days to recertify their crews and ensure they are ready to return to flight, said a second defense official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that have not been announced publicly.
Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Alyssa Myers said the service is cooperating closely with the Air Force and Navy “to make an informed decision for the MV-22’s return to flight. The safety and well-being of our personnel and the reliability of the V-22 continues to be a priority in our discussions as we determine our return to flight.”
The Osprey is a fast-moving airframe that can take off like a helicopter and then tilt its engines and rotor blades to a horizontal position to fly like an airplane.
While the current Osprey standdown is one of the largest military aircraft groundings in terms of affecting three services’ flight operations, it’s not the longest. When the Osprey was still in development, two Osprey crashes in 2000 killed 23 Marines and led the Marine Corps to ground the program for nearly 18 months.
The Joint Safety Council was established by Congress to get a stronger services-wide look at safety issues following a string of deadly aviation crashes in 2018.
Things aren’t looking so Sunny for Tammy Sytch. Nearly two years after the former WWE superstar was arrested and charged with DUI causing death, she’s finally got her sentence.
Back in April 2022, the 50-year-old was accused of killing 75-year-old Julian Lafrancis Lasseter. While driving drunk, she slammed her Mercedes into the rear of his Kia Sorento that was stopped at a stoplight in Florida. The force pushed the car forward, causing it to slam into the back of the car ahead of it — and the sever collision from both ends caused fatal injuries to the elderly man. So, so sad.
Tammy and the passengers in the other car weren’t seriously injured, but she was found to be over the legal limit when she slammed into the Kia at a “high rate speed” as reported by police at the time. Because of her intoxication, she’s now facing almost two decades behind bars.
On Monday, the former WWE Diva addressed the courtroom in an emotional testimony. She wore an orange jumpsuit and her hands were in cuffs as she tearfully addressed Julian’s family, saying:
“I know my words are not enough. But please know I think about you every day. Every second of every day, and I will do whatever I can to make the changes I need to make sure this never happens again. No one should have to go through this and please know that every single second of every day since the crash, I wish I could change places with him.”
After hours of argument back in forth in court, though, the judge ultimately decided on a sentence: 17 years in prison!
That’s a long time, but it’s much lighter than the 26-year sentence prosecutors were pushing for. They argued she was still a “danger to society”. This was someone who had previously been arrested for making terroristic threats after all. But the judge didn’t throw the entire book at her, opting for about two thirds of what they asked. However, she’ll have to serve an additional 8 years probation after.
Tammy didn’t show much of a reaction when she received her sentencing, leaving everyone to wonder what she was really thinking. You can see the video of her entire sentencing (below):
This wasn’t the first time the former wrestler — who went by the name Sunny in the ring — got caught up with some drunk driving charges, either. According to her criminal record, she’s been arrested at least six other times due to her impairment behind the wheel. So, a danger to society might not be that far off. It’s a stroke of pure luck no one else was seriously injured or killed during all her drunk driving before this one!
What do U think of Tammy’s sentencing, Perezcious readers? Did she get let off too easy — or was this a sufficient sentencing? Sound OFF (below).
Ryan Koss, 35, of Dorset, voluntarily appeared at the state police Shaftsbury barracks in southwest Vermont and was issued a citation charging him with grossly negligent operation with death resulting.
Koss turned his 2008 Honda Element into a parking lot, “into the path of Mr. Williams’ motorcycle,” police said in a statement.
Williams, 71, sustained critical injuries. He was airlifted to Albany Medical Center in New York, where he was pronounced dead from what the state medical examiner determined was “severe trauma and blood loss as a result of the crash,” police said.
Koss was processed on the charge and was allowed to leave to await an arraignment set for Sept. 25 in Vermont Superior Court in Bennington.
Koss sustained minor injuries and his vehicle had “major damage” to the front passenger side, according to the police statement.
Williams was riding a 1986 Honda Shadow VT700C, which police said received “front-end damage.” The actor was wearing a helmet at the time.
Williams curated an acclaimed Broadway, film and television career spanning nearly 50 years.
“It is with great sadness that we report that our beloved Treat Williams has passed away in Dorset, Vermont after a fatal motorcycle accident … To all his fans, please know that Treat appreciated all of you,” his family said in a statement to Deadline at the time.
The actor was best known for playing Dr. Andrew Brown on “Everwood” from 2002 to 2006. He also starred in the film adaptation of “Hair” and Sidney Lumet’s 1981 crime drama “Prince of the City.” Both roles earned him Golden Globe nominations.
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — New Orleans police have identified a car that was involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a man dead.
According to repots, the crash happened at the intersection of Canal Street and N. Rampart Street on Sunday (May 14th). At the scene officers located a unresponsive man lying on the ground who had been hit by a white Chevrolet Camaro.
He was pronounced dead.
Through further investigation officers located the white Chevrolet Camaro after it had been abandoned in the Metairie area.
The crash remains under investigation.
Anyone with additional information that can assist in this investigation is asked to call NOPD Traffic Fatality Detective Richard Chambers at 504-658-6201 or call anonymously to Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans at 504-822-1111 or toll-free at 1-877-903-STOP.
Five people were killed in a fiery wreck on a coastal freeway north of the Los Angeles area early Sunday morning, authorities said.
The crash occurred on the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) at about 4:30 a.m. just north of Point Mugu in Ventura County, California Highway Patrol (CHP) reported.
One of the vehicles was believed to have crossed the center divider and slammed head-on into the other vehicle, according to CHP. Both vehicles were engulfed in flames.
One vehicle was carrying four people, and the other had one occupant, CHP said. All five died. No names were immediately released.
The cause remains under investigation.
“At that hour in the morning, there’s generally little to no traffic out here in this portion of PCH,” CHP Sgt. John Larson told reporters. “There was no significant weather issues. Clearly, one of the drivers was an errant driver that crossed over and hit the other one.”
As of early Sunday afternoon, the PCH remained shut down in both directions in the area of the crash, CHP said.
