Monday Fiery Crash Thread

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SPRINGHILL TWP. - A 58-year-old Connellsville man died in a fiery crash early Saturday after the minivan he was driving ran off Route 857 and struck two vehicles in a driveway, causing an explosion and fire that burned the vehicles and the siding off a house, state police said.


The man, identified by Fayette County Coroner Dr. Phillip E. Reilly as Samuel Rush Pierce, died of total body, third- and fourth-degree burns. The manner of death was ruled accidental. According to Reilly's report, Pierce, who had just driven over the Pennsylvania line from West Virginia, may have fallen asleep at the wheel, because there was no braking attempt before he crashed into the two vehicles. Fayette County Deputy Coroner Paul Kondrla pronounced Pierce dead at the scene at 4:51 a.m.

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VERMILION, Ohio ?An Oberlin, Ohio, man was injured in a fiery crash yesterday when the motorcycle he was driving, a pickup truck, and a car collided at State Rt. 60 and Darrow Road about 1? miles south of Vermilion, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.

Edward H. Hartman, 34, the driver of the motorcycle, suffered serious injuries to his leg, troopers at the patrol?s Sandusky post said. He was taken to Community Health Partners in Lorain, Ohio, and later airlifted to Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center, where his condition was not released today.

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MADISON, Wis.---- A driver lost control of a car on a Dane County highway early Monday, causing the vehicle to overturn several times in a field and catch fire, killing all four occupants. The 1988 Pontiac Grand Prix was southbound on Highway 69 in the Town of Verona and may have been speeding, according to Dane County Sheriff's Lieutenant Kurt Pierce.

 

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