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Maryland woman Denai Holly, 25, got into a 3 car crash and fled the scene. She was stopped by off-duty cop Chris Jordan, and when he tried to approach her, she accelerated. He hopped onto the hood to avoid getting hit. Then she sped down I-270 at 80mph with Jordan on her car. She's been charged with attempted manslaughter, first-degree assault, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, was denied bond, and could face 50 years in jail.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A pickup truck struck and killed a 35-year-old bicycle messenger today next to Alamo Square, San Francisco police said. The accident happened at 10:55 a.m. at Fulton and Steiner streets at the northeast corner of the square. The bicycle messenger was a San Francisco man whose name has not yet been released. The bicyclist was headed east on Fulton toward downtown in a bike lane when the pickup driver, headed north on Steiner, struck him in the intersection,

Bicyclists were twice as likely as drivers to be at fault in the nearly 2,000 collisions that killed or severely injured Bay Area bike riders in the past decade, an analysis by The Chronicle shows. Bicycle and safety advocates say the deaths two weeks ago of two cyclists hit by a Santa Clara sheriff's deputy's cruiser should serve as a call to improve relations between cars and bikes on the roadways.The advocates say large numbers of cyclists fail to follow the rules of the road, running stop signs and red lights, and drivers are becoming more aggressive. "There is a...

The Michigan State Police Paw Paw Post and Van Buren County Central Dispatch began receiving strange reports of a man in a wheel chair being pushed by a semi truck on Wednesday afternoon. The wheel chair of a 21-year-old man became lodged in the grill of a semi truck as the vehicle pulled out of a gas station. The semi then began driving down Red Arrow Highway, with its new and unusual hood ornament still attached. At speeds up to 50 miles per hour for 4 miles!

Leominster, Mass. -- A 500-pound moose crashed through the windshield of a car late Thursday and ended up sitting in the passenger seat with its head sticking through the glass. Emergency personnel had to cut the roof off the car to extricate the moose, which was later euthanized by state environmental police because of severe injuries,

San Francisco police did not perform a drug or alcohol test on the Municipal Railway driver who struck and killed a 56-year-old woman and are now barred from the transit agency's own test results because of a city interpretation of federal law, authorities said Tuesday. Federal law requires that authorities test any bus driver involved in a fatal accident for drugs and alcohol. Normally, the police would conduct such a test. However, officers who responded to Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street just after 6:30 a.m. Monday initially thought the woman who had been hit by a 27-Bryant bus, Qiong...

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