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Subscribe to RSSA man walks past a cement truck that fell into a pit after the road caved in, in Xi'an, Shaanxi province in China, Sept. 28. No casualty was reported, according to local media.
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Emergency personnel respond to the scene where an 18-wheeler drove off the elevated portion of U.S. 90, killing the driver on Friday morning near Chacahoula, La. The truck driver was killed when the tractor-trailer rig ran off the elevated portion of U.S. 90, state police in southeastern Louisiana said. Police said the accident happened about 5 a.m. Friday near the exit for Chacahoula and Thibodaux.
Founder of dog rescue group arrested after 128 dogs found in U-Haul truck
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Members of the Fayette Co. Animal Control, Animal Rescue and the West Tenn. Drug Task Force round up 128 dogs found in a U-Haul trailer that was pulled over on to investigate for drugs on I-40 East of Memphis, Tenn. on Jan. 17, 2012. Instead, the dogs and one cat were found, all of which were locked in cages with tie-fasteners and no ventilation.
Authorities in West Tennessee arrested two women when they discovered 128 live dogs, one dead dog and a live cat inside a U-Haul truck and a minivan during a traffic stop on Interstate 40, WSMV-TV reports.
The Commercial-Appeal in Memphis reports that the dogs were hungry, thirsty and living in squalor, without ventilation. The newspaper reported that the arrested women were associated with Hearts for Hounds, a dog rescue organization:
By Tuesday afternoon, the women -- Bonnie Sheehan, 55, and a passenger, Pamela A. King-McCracken, 59, both of the Long Beach, Calif., area -- each faced 128 counts of aggravated animal cruelty, a Class E felony, and were jailed on $100,000 bond each in Fayette County.
Officials at the scene said the women were driving from California to Virginia. A check of the website for Hearts for Hounds showed they were relocating from Long Beach to Virginia. Sheehan is shown as the organization's founder. Read the full story.
WMC-TV's Nick Kenny reports.
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Authorities work the scene underneath a CSX railroad trestle over Bolton Road near Marietta Road where a truck hit the bridge and two people were injured after a large chunk of concrete fell onto the vehicle Tuesday, June 28.
Eighteen-wheeler plunges off bridge into Alabama creek
Matt Mckean / The TimesDaily via AP
Alabama state and local emergency personel and cleanup crews work to raise a semi-tractor and trailer that plunged off the Bluewater Creek bridge into the creek along US 72 early Thursday morning April 21, near Elgin, Alabama. The driver was treated and rleased from a local hospital.
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Emergency personnel and cleanup crews work to raise the semi-tractor and trailer.
An eighteen-wheeler falls from a rural Alabama bridge early Thursday morning after the driver attempts to avoid hitting a deer. Msnbc.com's Al Stirrett reports.
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Dump truck driver Dan Holland, left, looks at his flipped his dump truck in Kenton County, Ky. on Tuesday, April 19.
Dump truck flips over in northern Kentucky
Seems like it would be hard to make a dump truck do this. WCPO.com reports that the accident caused I-275 in northern Kentucky to shut down for an hour. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
At least 3 dead after truck plummets into river
Gary Crow / Tulsa World via AP
A pickup truck sits in the the Spring River after sliding off the Spring River Bridge on the Will Rogers Turnpike in Miami, Okla. on Thursday, Feb 3
At least three people were killed Thursday when the pickup truck they were in ran off a snow-covered interstate highway bridge and plunged 80 feet into an icy river below, the Associated Press reports.
Ottawa County Sheriff Terry Durborow said the truck jumped a guard rail on Interstate 44 in northeast Oklahoma and fell into the Spring River. The truck was partially submerged.
Durborow says from five to eight people were in the truck.
"This is a fall of 80 feet or better ... that alone is a very dangerous type of crash. This is a very traumatic crash," said Oklahoma Highway Department spokesman Lt. George Brown.
Motorists who witnessed the accident said they peered over the side of the bridge and spotted six victims outside of the truck in the icy water and another two people inside the vehicle, Brown said.
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A pickup truck sits Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, in the crater left after an explosion at a closed gas station in Louisville Ky. A Louisville fire official says no one was injured.
Truck sits in a crater following explosion at a vacant gas station in Kentucky
This is a great reminder of the need to avoid producing sparks anywhere fuel vapors may be present, such as at a gas station. Full story here.