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A section of the overpass gave way after it was hit by a crane-hauling truck.. A Texas driver caught a partial overpass collapse on video this week as he was driving underneath it. Leonel Vasquez and his brother were driving on Interstate 27 in Tulia, Texas, from his work in Amarillo when they saw a tractor-trailer hit the overpass ... The tractor-trailer driver suffered minor injuries, ... The tractor-trailer was hauling a crane when it hit the overpass, ... The overpass remains closed. ... Tulia is around 50 miles south of Amarillo.

Americans are scrambling to obtain a state-issued REAL ID in order to travel by plane ahead of a federal deadline next month, which comes after states from coast to coast changed their laws surrounding driver's licenses to permit illegal immigrants to drive. Americans will need to obtain a REAL ID, which is a federally-compliant driver's license or other identification that meets higher standards than state-issued licenses, in order to easily travel by air, the Department of Homeland Security explains on its website. Only legal U.S. citizens or residents can obtain the identification card, while valid U.S. passports can also still...

Disturbing security footage shows the moment a Uber driver was murdered as the gunmen appeared to have been targeting his passenger outside a Philadelphia hookah lounge. Olatunji W. Bolaji, 77, was seen picking up a 22-year-old passenger in his black Chevy Suburban in downtown Philadelphia outside the Byblos Hookah Bar on Wednesday at around 2 a.m. — moments before the deadly shooting, according to video obtained by NBC10. The unidentified fare hugged a woman outside Bolaji’s car as two men jumped out of a Jeep Grand Cherokee with Massachusetts plates, police said. The woman is seen fleeing for safety when...

A Florida bus driver fatally shot two passengers during an early-hours ride — even though drivers are banned from being armed, authorities said. The unidentified Metrobus driver opened fire when a fight broke out about someone bringing a bicycle on the bust just before 3 a.m. Sunday in Miami Gardens, sources told the Miami Herald. It was not immediately clear if the shot passengers — neither of whom have been publicly identified — were both involved in the fight, the paper said. Both were rushed to a nearby hospital but could not be saved. “I was just coming from the...

Days after surveillance cameras recorded a driver swarmed by a mob of cyclists in broad daylight in the heart of Miami, the city’s police department has taken action against an officer for what she is accused of failing to do. The brouhaha went down Sunday evening along busy Biscayne Boulevard, near 14th Street. The security footage shows a gang of angry bicyclists going berserk — beating on the motorist, breaking his windshield, jumping on and stomping on his car’s roof and hood, and using a bike to punctuate the beatdown. Meanwhile, a Miami Police officer sat in her car with...

A female driver was killed and her passenger seriously injured after they were tossed from a Tesla that flipped and then burst into flames on the FDR Drive in Manhattan early Tuesday, cops said. The Tesla struck a guardrail and flipped on the FDR near 70th Street on the Upper East Side just after 2:30 a.m., the NYPD said — with photos showing huge chunks of the electric vehicle scattered across the road. Both the woman and her 26-year-old passenger were ejected from the car, which burst into flames

A police department in Florida is moving to fire an officer after she accidentally shot a man with his own gun during a routine traffic stop last month. Officer Mindy Cardwell was called to assist with a traffic stop on Dec. 13 along with another cop after Jason Arrington, 39, had been pulled over by an officer for running a red light, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook. Arrington was fully cooperating with all three officers, the body camera footage showed. He had informed the cop who originally pulled him over that he did have a gun holstered in...

One of the top overtime earners in disgraced ex-NYPD Chief Jefferey Maddrey’s office is talking to federal investigators as they probe sex-for-overtime allegations uncovered by The Post, law enforcement sources said. Ingrid Sanders, the ex-driver of the department former top uniformed cop, had her cell phone taken by the feds, who are looking at whether the NYPD was using federal funds to pay for the overtime, the sources said. “The only thing she can be talking about is her overtime and her interactions with Maddrey,” a source familiar with the investigation said. Sanders, who joined the department in 1993, made...

More female officers in disgraced top cop Jeffrey Maddrey’s orbit pulled down massive overtime and other perks, The Post has learned. The driver for the former chief of department made an eye-popping $163,414 in OT last year — and resigned days after The Post exposed her boss’s alleged sleazy conduct at police headquarters, records show. Detective Ingrid Sanders was the seventh-highest overtime earner in the department, boosting her total salary last fiscal year to $352,462, records show. That put her pay not far behind Lt. Quathisha Epps, the top earner who made $403,515, including $204,453 in OT. Epps filed an...

A disgruntled Utah man smashed his car into the storefront of a dealership he had bought it from earlier that day after he was allegedly denied a refund when he discovered his new ride had mechanical issues. Michael Lee Murray, 35, bought a used Subaru Outback from the Tim Dahle Mazda Southtowne car dealership in Sandy, a city in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, for $4,000 on Monday morning, according to Fox 13 News. However, Murray alleged that he was sold a “lemon” — a vehicle whose manufacturing issues jeopardize the driver’s safety — soon after he snagged the...

A driver was struck and killed while getting out of his car to cross a Rhode Island highway where people were seen scrambling to pick up loose cash, according to reports. Kevin Elliot McCourt stopped his car on I-95 in Providence around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday and had already walked across the southbound lanes when he was fatally struck by a Volkswagen SUV on the northbound side, WJAR reported. The deadly accident came as civilians and cops were filmed chasing down dollar bills that were flying around on the same highway, NBC News said. However, police have not yet confirmed if...

A Republican ex-Nascar driver has passed an incumbent Democrat Congressman in the final turn before Election Day. Austin Theriault has surpassed incumbent Democrat Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) in the race for Maine’s Second Congressional District, a poll from Axis Research found. The republican state lawmaker now holds a 2-point advantage over Golden with 47 percent to the Democrats’ 45 percent. Golden had a 10-point lead in the same poll in July, but Theriault has climbed as his name ID increased, the poll found.

As the state’s plans to get New Yorkers out of their cars stall, Governor Hochul is championing a highway expansion in the Hudson Valley. A planned highway expansion in the Catskill region championed by Governor Kathy Hochul would save drivers one to six minutes at a cost of at least $1.3 billion, according to a new study from the state Department of Transportation, or DOT. The project is slated for New York’s Route 17, which stretches about 30 miles from the Woodbury Common shopping center past Legoland New York and serves tens of thousands of drivers each day. The state...

A 19-year-old is being charged with DUI manslaughter after allegedly running over a 2-year-old and dragging him and his tricycle in a gated Florida community Monday as his horrified family watched, authorities said. According to harrowing details from the affidavit obtained by ClickOrlando, Joshua Montero “appeared to drag the child and the bicycle” a few feet before the truck came to a halt. The tot’s mother said she and her husband were standing in their driveway as their children were riding their bikes in the street in front of their house on the Labor Day holiday when she heard and...

Sarahy Parra-Ovalles, a migrant from Venezuela who was granted a work permit after overstaying a tourist visa, has been accused of crashing her car into a Florida mother who was walking her baby in a stroller before fleeing the scene. The mother, who has not yet been identified, had been pushing her 4-month-old infant in a stroller across the street when Parra-Ovalles came driving down and crashed into her, throwing the baby into the street. Surveillance video then allegedly showed Parra-Ovalles, an Amazon driver, getting out of her car to put the baby back in the stroller before fleeing the...

A car was seen being driven backward on July 10 in New York City, which shocked fellow motorists on the roadway. Twenty-nine-year-old emergency medical technician Victoria Metzger was driving to a call when she noticed something odd on the street, the New York Post reported Monday. Video footage shows the red car going backward as other cars pass by. Moments later, the car is seen still going backward as it tails a yellow school bus. Metzger said she was in disbelief when she noticed the vehicle, adding, “I couldn’t stay or keep up for long because we were on our...

An upstate New York mother and her 18-year-old son were killed in a head-on collision on their way back from a college orientation Friday when another motorist swerved into their lane, according to authorities and family friends. Recent high school grad Colin Ferrell was behind the wheel of a 2015 Acura RDX with his mother Tiffany Ferrell in the passenger seat when they were killed in the daylight crash on Interstate 86 in the town of Chemung at around 5 p.m., New York State police said. The other driver, Steven Mallory, 36, who was driving a 2018 Nissan Maxima also...

As of Monday, it is no longer illegal in Hawaii to carry a dangerous weapon in public, and switchblade and butterfly knives are no longer banned. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- As of Monday, it is no longer illegal in Hawaii to carry a dangerous weapon in public -- and switchblade and butterfly knives are no longer banned. That change led to an alarming sight in Waikiki at sunset Tuesday. The governor signed HB 2342 into law Monday without fanfare, making it immediately legal to openly carry weapons that were banned in public until now. Gun rights activist Andrew Namiki Roberts, leader...

G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers... General Motors said Friday that it had stopped sharing details about how people drove its cars with two data brokers that created risk profiles for the insurance industry. The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars...

As we all have seen, corporate America has become militantly pro-LGBT and anti-Christian over the past few decades.... James Earls has worked at UPS for 35 years and is a devout Christian. He has received some of UPS’s highest awards for safety and loyalty. He is a driver of a large UPS “feeder truck.” He lives in Alabama and is represented by Teamsters Local 402. .. During the celebration of Gay Pride Month a few years ago, James entered the UPS facility in Madison, Alabama. UPS was showing its support and dedication to the LGBT movement by broadcasting images on...