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SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — As many as eight people were injured Wednesday afternoon when a car jumped a curb outside Main Street Elementary School. CBS2 confirms the driver is a 100-year-old man who will turn 101 next week.

The Minnesota State Patrol says a driver who bounced in and out of a highway ditch unknowingly lost her backseat passenger, who was ejected through a broken window. The patrol says the 72-year-old driver, Louise Ericksen, was driving southbound on Highway 72 in Beltrami County Sunday when her car strayed into the ditch, hit a sign and broke a back window. As the car bounced along the rough terrain, 15-year-old Kendall Ericksen was ejected out the broken window. The driver maneuvered her Impala back on the highway and continued southbound without realizing Kendall was missing.

A 91-year-old man pleaded no contest to a traffic violation and was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation for an accident in December of 2007 that killed a Savannah woman and seriously injured her husband. Daniel Thomas Fogarty entered the plea on Thursday for the accident that killed 48-year-old Nichola Coe. The accident happened as Coe and her husband, 52-year-old Daniel Coe, were rushing to help a 17-year-old driver who had wrecked his car. Fogarty's $350 fine was suspended. As a condition of probation Fogarty is not to drive after dark, in bad weather or outside of Chatham County....

Man Rams Car Into Restaurant, Eats Breakfast 92-Year-Old Cited For Reckless Driving POSTED: 3:58 pm EST January 6, 2010 UPDATED: 5:07 pm EST January 6, 2010   PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Diners at the Biscuit's "N" Gravy and More restaurant in Port Orange received a surprise Wednesday when a car plowed into the side of the building. A 92-year-old man was at the wheel when his vehicle crashed into the busy restaurant on Nova Road. The driver wasn't hurt, but the cook said a customer had just left the damaged seating area. Investigators think Charles Pierce stepped on the...

The 4-year-old Stoughton girl run down in a crosswalk by an elderly driver yesterday has died, Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating’s office announced this morning. Diya Patel was hospitalized in a coma at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, but did not survive the night after being hit on her scooter by an 89-year-old woman at the wheel of a Toyota Camry on Washington Street in Stoughton late yesterday morning. According to Keating’s spokesman David Traub, the collision remains under investigation by the Stoughton Police Department with assistance from state police, and no charges against the driver have been announced.

When it comes to his daily takeout lunch, attorney Peter Stuart Buchanan is a man of strict routine. He likes the same salmon from the same restaurant, always grilled on one side. He likes light olive oil, no salt, no pepper. He likes generous portions of carrots and green beans, and prefers them extra steamed. And he likes four potatoes on the side. But when unforeseen factors complicate his routine, serious consequences can ensue. Buchanan, 73, was charged in Marin Superior Court this week on allegations he drove through a construction barricade outside his favorite restaurant in Mill Valley and...

ST. PETERSBURG - A 93-year-old motorist struck and killed a pedestrian Wednesday evening, then drove about 3 miles with the body lodged in the windshield until he was stopped at a Sunshine Skyway tollbooth. The driver told officers he thought the body had fallen from the sky, said St. Petersburg police Officer Mike Jockers. "He had no idea he had been involved in an accident," Jockers said. "He doesn't totally understand what happened." The crash occurred about 8:30 p.m. when the 52-year-old pedestrian attempted to cross 34th Street S from east to west near 46th Avenue S, witnesses told police....