CRASH PRESENTATION PROJECT

The Feb. 11 wreck off Respass Beach Road occurred when a small hand-held vacuum fell to the driver's side floorboard, according to Diana Klink, a city spokeswoman. The front-seat passenger, 23-year-old Latasha Dubois of Suffolk, reached over to retrieve it but grabbed the steering wheel when she sat back up, causing the vehicle to drive off the road, through a hedge and into a pond.

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/04/suffolk-police-two-fatal-pond-crashes-were-...

SUMMARY: A woman named Latasha Dubois was driving down Repass Beach Road when a mini vacuum fell in the passenger floor. When she went to grab it she ran off the road into a pond.

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• Cause: Taking yo eyes off the road
• Damage: ruined car because of water
• How to prevent: Don't worry about the vacuum in the floor. It can wait!!!

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Grief counselors were at Standley Lake High School Monday as students returned to classes after losing a classmate three days earlier.

Lyneah Dike, 17, died in a crash at West 76th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard Friday night. Investigators say a drunk driver hit the car she was riding in.

She and her best friend, Lyndsey Petrie, were driving on Wadsworth when police say a truck driven by David Bunn, 54, crossed into oncoming traffic and hit the girls’ red Mustang head-on.
“I want that man to live the rest of his life with the thought and picture of my beautiful daughter … he doesn’t deserve to be here,” Lyneah’s mother Christina Martel says.

Lyneah was in the passenger seat, and she died on the scene. Lyndsey went to the hospital with serious injuries and she remained there Monday night.

“It`s just hard when you find out that your daughter has been in a head-on car accident and go over there and see the car and it`s got a blanket over it and you know that your baby girl is inside there,” Lyneah’s father, Joe Dike says.

http://kdvr.com/2014/09/29/police-drunk-driver-kills-teen-in-head-on-crash/

Summary: two teenage girls, Lyneah Dike & Lyndsey Petrie, hit a drunk driver head on and die.

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• Cause: Drunk driver
• Damage: killed the two girls and damaged the car
• How to prevent it: don't drive drunk

POMONA, Calif. – A wrong-way driver on a Southern California freeway was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after causing a pre-dawn crash with multiple vehicles Sunday that left six people dead, a highway patrol officer told the Los Angeles Times.

Police arrested the 21-year-old female driver on suspicion of felony driving under the influence and felony manslaughter in connection with the 4:40 a.m. accident on the westbound Pomona freeway, or State Route 60, in Diamond Bar, said Rodrigo Jimenez, a California Highway Patrol spokesman on the scene, who spoke to the Los Angeles Times.

The female driver was in serious condition at a Los Angeles County hospital with a broken femur and a ruptured bladder, Jimenez said.

Summary: a woman accused of drunk driving was driving the wrong way and collided with several vehicles. This incident left six people dead.

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• Cause: drunk driving
• Damage: six people killed, one woman injured
• How to prevent it: don't drink and drive

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