Multiple Traffic, Pedestrian Deaths Across U.S.

A string of recent traffic incidents across the U.S. left multiple people dead or injured in separate crashes and pedestrian strikes in Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, New York, North Carolina and Nevada. In Louisville, Ky., a late-night head-on collision on Dixie Highway required rescuers to extricate a woman who later died at UofL Hospital while the other driver was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. In Chattanooga, Tenn., police arrested 32-year-old John Cameron Boyd on DUI, vehicular homicide and related charges after a Dodge struck pedestrians who were refueling a disabled Jeep, killing a 27-year-old man, injuring a woman and sending two children in Boyd’s vehicle to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. In New York, 46-year-old Ever Eli Damian Mazat was killed in Flanders in a hit-and-run that led to the arrest of 46-year-old Silvia Alvarez De Reyes on a felony leaving-the-scene charge; pedestrians were also struck and killed in Jasper County, S.C., and near Winnemucca, Nev., where 21-year-old Haeden Stanley was pronounced dead on Sept. 8. A person was killed after being struck by a CSX freight train in Smithfield, N.C.; a three-car wreck on I-285 in Cobb County critically injured a 38-year-old woman; and separate incidents in South Fulton and Greensboro left a pedestrian and a motorist seriously hurt. Investigations are ongoing in all cases, and local authorities are seeking information and witnesses.