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DIXON -- A motorist stopped for speeding and drunken driving on Interstate 80 early today in Dixon bolted from a California Highway Patrol officer, jumped the median and was struck and killed by a sport-utility vehicle, authorities said. Shaun Jones, 26, of Sacramento died shortly after 1 a.m. when he was hit by a woman driving a Ford Expedition on westbound I-80 near Dixon Avenue in Solano County, the CHP said. The incident began when two CHP officers in a patrol car clocked Jones traveling 96 mph in a Cadillac Deville on eastbound I-80 east of Dixon Avenue, authorities said....

TUSTIN, Calif. A man was hospitalized after he drove his car into a Tustin beauty salon Saturday, police said. A vehicle was driven all the way into Fine Touch Hair & Nails, in the 17500 block of 17th Street and was reported at 2:43 p.m., Tustin police Lt. Charles Celano said. Officers responding to the crash found an unconscious man at the wheel, his foot still on the gas pedal. “We're not sure if this is a medical issue, or if he was under the influence," Celano said. The driver was taken to a nearby hospital. At least four people...

Three Sons Escaped Harm   EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Three South Jersey boys have lost their parents in horrible crash in their Egg Harbor Township house. About 4:30 a.m., a sport utility vehicle crashed into the bedroom of Jose Varela, 40, and Blanco Santiago, 32, landing on top of the sleeping couple and killing them. The house is located along busy Route 40, at the Black Horse Pike and Athens Avenue. The couple's three sons ages 16, 14, and 10, were also home at the time of the accident, but they were not injured. Police have identified the driver...

SUV Hits Motorcycle In Lincoln ...A Chevrolet Avalanche from Illinois was going the wrong direction and changed lanes, striking the motorcycle, authorities said... OMG!! SUV is at it again. As many people and cars as he destroys you would think they would lock him away in prison for a long time. I just feel sorry for the people who sit in his front seat...because they are never responsible for the accidents...they are just victims of SUV!!!

Martin, 27, a futures trader, was killed early Sunday when he was thrown from a taxicab that made an improper left turn and was hit by a speeding sport-utility vehicle, which then fled the scene, Chicago police said.

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Sports utility vehicles may feel safer for their drivers but they are more deadly than other cars for pedestrians, Irish scientists said on Friday. Research has shown that the chance of killing or seriously injuring a pedestrian is two to four times higher for someone driving an SUV, or 4X4 vehicle, than a car. "There is clearly a higher risk for pedestrians when they are struck by a light truck or SUV compared to a passenger car," Dr. Ciaran Simms, an expert in mechanical engineering at Trinity College in Dublin, told Reuters. Elderly pedestrians and children...

GOLDEN, Colo. - A woman who authorities said had sex with high school boys so she could be a “cool mom” was injured while riding in an SUV that veered off an interstate a day before she was to be sentenced. The driver was a 14-year-old girl.

6:08 p.m. September 4, 2005 SAN DIEGO – An 18-month-old boy was kidnapped Sunday when the SUV he was in was carjacked in Fontana, prompting authorities to issue an Amber Alert for all of Southern California, a sergeant said. Noah Leano was in his mother's white, 2000 Ford Expedition when the vehicle was taken from an AM/PM gas station in the 17000 block of Foothill Boulevard at 1:24 p.m., said Fontana police Sgt. William Megenney.

NEWARK, N.J. -- Here's a complication the surgeon and patient didn't expect. An SUV rammed into a New Jersey doctor's operating room toward the end of a cataract procedure. No one was injured. But Dr. Bernard Spier says if the accident had happened moments earlier, it could have hurt the patient's eye. Spier had removed the cataract and had just used a plunger to implant a silicone lens when the crash threw him onto the partially sedated patient Tuesday. Police said the driver was trying to back his SUV out of a parking space outside the Northern New Jersey Eye...

Performing eye surgery is no simple task. Even with the aid of sophisticated instruments, the slightest miscalculation can cause irreparable damage to the patient's sight. One South Orange surgeon learned yesterday morning, however, that the work is far more difficult when a 4,300-pound SUV comes barreling through the wall during an operation. Bernard Spier was finishing a routine cataract surgery at Northern New Jersey Eye Institute at 8:37 a.m. yesterday when another patient drove his red Toyota 4Runner through the wall, stopping just inches from Spier and the patient lying partially sedated on a gurney in the middle of the...

<p>A suspect being sought for a stabbing ran a sports utility vehicle into the patrol cars of two officers trying to find him, and then died in a chase when he jumped from his vehicle onto a Southland freeway, authorities said today.</p>

PINE VALLEY – California Highway Patrol officers intercepted a large SUV Wednesday night on Interstate 8 that had been heavily modified to smuggle both drugs and illegal immigrants. Five of the seven people inside the white Chevrolet Suburban were taken into custody and nearly 700 pounds of marijuana was confiscated, but not before the driver fled the wrong way on Interstate 8 and deliberately rammed a CHP patrol car head-on, said CHP Officer Brian Pennings. The driver was one of the two occupants of the vehicle who escaped, he said. There were no injuries reported in the incident.

San Francisco -- Someone swiped a San Francisco Fire Department SUV overnight while its driver was busy with a paramedic call and took it for a short joyride before crashing it into several parked vehicles and fleeing, authorities said. Paramedics were answering a call on the 600 block of Grove Street shortly before 1 a.m. when a fire department supervisor inadvertently left one of the doors to his SUV unlocked, said fire department spokesman Pete Howes. Howes said that when fire department vehicles block a lane, it is standard procedure to leave them running and locked so their flashing lights...

A settlement - part of which is secret - has been reached between a brain-damaged mother and the Madison car dealership she accused of exploiting her injury and selling her an SUV she couldn't afford under terms she couldn't understand. The dealership, Gordie Boucher Lincoln/Mercury of Madison - which disputed all of the allegations and predicted a quick settlement - agreed to take the vehicle back and reimburse the woman for the payments she made, according to a student spokesman for the University of Wisconsin Law School's Consumer Law Litigation Unit. David Connally, a law student, said the settlement includes...

A sport utility vehicle is believed to have started a fire at a southeast Houston apartment complex Wednesday, fire investigators told Local 2. Investigators believe the fire started at about 1 a.m. in a Suzuki SUV parked under a carport at a complex on Broadway Street and Moline Street. The fire destroyed the SUV, and two apartment units suffered minor damage. No injuries were reported.

DRUMS, Pa. - A sport utility vehicle crashed head-on into a line of motorcycles on a charity ride, killing one person and injuring several others, authorities said. William Delaney Jr., 41, was killed Sunday when his motorcycle was struck by the Chevrolet Blazer after it crossed the center line, said William J. Feissner, a Butler Township police officer. Delaney's wife, Linda Delaney, 40, who was riding on the back of the motorcycle, was listed in critical condition Monday at a hospital. Two other motorcyclists were critically injured and at least three others were hospitalized with noncritical injuries, Feissner said Sunday....

At least 20 people were injured Friday morning when an out-of-control sport utility vehicle about to be auctioned off plowed into bystanders and cars in Yaphank, Suffolk police said. Smoke and flying car parts sent the crowd of about 500 into panic, witnesses and police said. The wholesale auto auction at Adesa on Patchogue-Yaphank Road had been under way for almost two hours when the driver of a 2003 Lincoln Navigator set off a chain-reaction crash involving six other vehicles, just before 11 a.m. It was not known what caused the driver, Louis Amelia, 78, of Moriches, to lose control...

PLANO - Three teenagers have been arrested after the stolen sports utility vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a Plano home and seriously injured a five-year-old boy. Police would not release the names of the girl and two boys because they are juveniles, but said all three are 16 or younger. Police said the SUV was traveling at a high rate of speed when it skidded across the front yard of a home on Silverstone Dr., belonging to Jason and Jennifer McNeely. A family friend who arrived to the house Monday morning to check on the house said the...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A sport utility vehicle speeding toward a border crossing plowed into a family Friday, killing two little girls and seriously injuring their mother and two sisters. The vehicle had blood on a bumper and was dragging a baby stroller underneath when it stopped at a border checkpoint near El Paso, said Roger Maier, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. Officials in Mexico soon reported to U.S. agents that a vehicle had crashed into a family on the Mexican side of the border in Ciudad Juarez, killing the girls, ages 4 and 5, Maier...

A sport utility came crashing through the front of the home Thursday night, narrowly missing the two elderly people who live there.Police are now looking for the driver who fled the scene. Around 10:20 p.m. Thursday, the SUV slammed into a home in the 3700 block of Lowell, slightly injuring one of two women who were inside. The woman suffered a cut to her forehead from flying debris. The collapsing roof was firefighters' next big concern. Engineers were brought in to determine the safest way to get the car out of the house. "We brought in the Denver Fire Department...