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CBS) SKY VALLEY, Calif. An SUV crashed and overturned when it collided with a sedan in Sky Valley Sunday, trapping and injuring people inside the larger vehicle, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said. The crash was reported at 5:42 p.m. near Dillon Road and Prospect Street in Sky Valley, the dispatcher said. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured, the dispatcher said.

A sport-utility vehicle jumped a curb outside a middle school Wednesday afternoon and plowed into a group of children waiting for a bus, seriously injuring at least two of them, police and hospital officials said. The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. as Ralston Middle School was letting out for the day. Witnesses said the car, a 2004 Honda Pilot, was in the school parking lot when it hit the students and then rammed into a tree before stopping.Chopper11 showed several emergency crews at the school. It also showed a gold SUV on the curb nearest to the school entrance. The...

Bluff, Utah (AP) -- A sport utility vehicle carrying illegal immigrants overturned Monday in southeastern Utah, killing six people and injuring eight others. . . .

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Authorities say 23-year-old Mohammed Reza Taheriazar drove a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee drove into The Pit at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus around noon Friday, injuring five students and a visiting scholar.

Safety Campaign Turns SUVs Into Big, Hairy Beasts POSTED: 1:32 pm EST January 31, 2005 Picture your SUV as a hairy, growling beast -- something of a cross between a buffalo and something from the Star Wars movies. A new safety campaign launched Monday by governments from all 50 states wants you to picture the big vehicles as a creature known as Esuvee. The monster is meant to remind people that driving a sport utility vehicle as if it were an ordinary passenger car can be fatal, according to a media release. In 2000, rollover crashes killed 9,873 occupants of...