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A 47-year-old man now faces 6 facial reconstruction surgeries to repair damage done following a pit bull dog attack. The man had his nose bitten off and doctors were unable to reattach the man’s nose after the attack. The attack happened when the 47-year-old man was helping a neighbor move some stereo equipment when the dog lunged at him. The man said he has owned pit bulls for 20 years and has never had any problems. He had been playing with the dog that attacked him just minutes before the attack had happened.

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A 29-year-old man has been charged with vehicular assault after he turned himself in to police following a three-car wreck. The accident happened after the man attempted to change lanes in an unsafe manner and struck another vehicle. That vehicle then struck a third vehicle and was transported to a medical facility suffering serious injuries. The 29-year-old man was arrested and later released on a $2,500 personal recognizance bail. Authorities said he turned himself in after discovering police had issued an arrest warrant for him. He is scheduled to appear in court regarding this incident. There is no word on the condition of the driver in the third vehicle involved in this wreck.

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A 56-year-old Mesa, AZ woman was killed after being struck by a vehicle while trying to catch a bus. The incident occurred when the woman was struck by an oncoming Ford Focus while she was crossing the street. Authorities said the woman was in a hurry to catch the bus and failed to yield to vehicles at a traffic light. The victim was launched into the air upon impact and collided with a light pole. Rescue workers tried to revive her using CPR but were unable to do so.

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After a two-year-old boy was bitten by a dog owned by his grandfather in 2006, the boy’s father has brought a lawsuit against the grandfather in connection with the attack. The attack occurred when the 2-year-old boy reached his hands in the air trying to get his grandfather’s attention. As the boy put his arms down, he touched the Labrador that was nearby and it lunged at and bit the boy in the face four times.

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In Florida, a 22-year-old man riding a motorcycle suffered critical injuries after colliding with a vehicle driven by a 100-year-old man. The accident happened when the elderly driver was attempting to make a left turn along a roadway when the southbound Suzuki motorcycle collided with the man’s Buick. The motorcycle rider was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash and was ejected from the bike.

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At least four high school students in Massachusetts suffered varying degrees of injuries as the BMW they were riding in collided with a school bus. The two vehicles collided head-on and two of the students suffered life-threatening injuries. The female driver of the BMW was conscious following the wreck. She and the three other teens in the vehicle were all transported to a medical facility for treatment of unknown injuries.

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In Georgia, a woman from Florida was killed after being struck by a tractor-trailer while she was standing in the roadway. The woman had just been involved in a single-car wreck herself and was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher when the tractor trailer struck her. Georgia State Patrol said the woman was originally involved in the single-car wreck struck a guardrail and bounced back into the lane near an exit to the interstate. Police said the 911 dispatcher heard the impact of the vehicle striking the woman. It is unknown what caused the woman to lose control of her vehicle in the first place. The driver of the tractor-trailer was uninjured and did not face any charges in connection with the crash.

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At least five people were killed in an automobile accident involving a large commercial truck and three motorcycles. The incident occurred when the truck’s brakes failed to engage causing the truck to collide with the three motorcycles. The occupants of the three motorcycles were crushed to death and two other people seriously injured succumbed to those injuries. The driver of the truck was uninjured in the wreck. The accident occurred at a 3-way intersection as the truck driver ran through the intersection at a high rate of speed. Police took the driver into custody and he is being held responsible for the wreck.

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An 18-year-old Florida man was involved in an automobile accident that killed a 68-year-old pedestrian. The incident occurred when the 18-year-old driver swerved to avoid striking a Winn-Dixie employee, sideswiped another vehicle and collided with a dumpster. The dumpster subsequently struck a 68-year-old man who police say was standing next to the dumpster. The man was thrown into the air as a result of the impact and he was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

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A 30-year-old man is facing charges of leaving the scene of a personal-injury accident, failure to yield to the right of way of a pedestrian, failure to use due care, and other charges after being involved in a pedestrian-car accident in Jamestown, New York. The victim in the incident refused medical attention and the driver of the vehicle fled the scene. Later, police found the driver had been intoxicated at the time of the accident and he had a revoked license as well.

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In Portland, Oregon a multi-car accident resulted in injuries for the driver of one of the vehicles and the driver of a dump truck also involved in the wreck. The incident occurred in the late afternoon hours when a Chevy Tahoe was waiting for a dump truck to cross before making a left turn into a driveway. However, another vehicle was attempting to pass the SUV and clipped the bumper causing the driver to lose control and collide with the oncoming dump truck. The vehicle was struck on the driver’s side injuring a female driver.

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In southern Florida, at least 10 people were killed including an unborn baby in a matter of 24 hours all involved in some sort of automobile accident. One of those incidents was a head-on collision that killed four people in the vehicle. In separate accidents, multiple people were killed including a 5-year-old girl who was a pedestrian riding a toy car. An elderly person and a 14-year-old were also killed in separate accidents.

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Following an automobile accident in Lancaster, PA, a 20-year-old woman has died and police believe she had been texting just before the accident occurred. The accident happened when the woman was driving at a high rate of speed and was unable to negotiate a curve in the roadway. She lost control over vehicle as a result and collided with oncoming traffic. A 66-year-old woman was also injured in the wreck but she was treated at a medical facility. The 20-year-old woman died at the scene of the accident. The county has had a ban on texting while driving recently instated according to police.

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After a 32-year-old was involved in an automobile accident driving his car into a ditch, police arrested him and charged him with driving while intoxicated. The incident originally occurred when the driver lost control of his vehicle and crossed into an oncoming lane of traffic and into a ditch. The vehicle rolled over upside down but the driver was uninjured in the wreck. Police later discovered he had a blood alcohol level just over the legal limit of .08. He was arrested and is now scheduled to appear in court sometime in the future. Aside from the DWI charge he was also charged with operating a vehicle at a speed not reasonable or prudent.

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