Speaker’s escort vehicle hits truck, seven injured

September 30th, 2009 Naked man steals truck and drives into a ditchATHENS, Ala. — Authorities said a naked man was arrested after he allegedly stole a truck and and drove it into a ditch on Thursday.

September 27th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Six people, including a woman, were killed Sunday when the car in which they were travelling slammed into a truck in Panipat district of Haryana, police said. The car, being rashly driven, rammed into the stationary truck from the rear in Samalkha town of Panipat, about 130 km from here.

September 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Five people, including four Class 9 students were killed and seven other students injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur district Sunday, police said. The accident took place in the Gulariya locality at around 6 a.m.

September 19th, 2009 16 die in expressway collision in eastern ChinaBEIJING — At least 16 people died and 14 were injured Saturday in southeastern China after a truck hit a road maintenance vehicle from behind, sending it off a bridge, police and a news report said. The maintenance vehicle was carrying 25 people when it was hit on an expressway in Jiangxi's Suichuan county, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

September 14th, 2009 Police say DUI suspect tried to steal tow truckBETHLEHEM, Pa. — Police in eastern Pennsylvania said a man charged with drunken driving faces more charges after allegedly trying to steal a tow truck a few hours later to retrieve his impounded vehicle.

September 6th, 2009 Ohio pickup hits Amish buggy, killing 3 siblingsWOOSTER, Ohio — Law enforcement officials say a pickup truck rammed into the back of an Amish buggy in northeast Ohio, ejecting three siblings and killing them. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says 13-year-old Mary Yoder was riding with her two older siblings in a horse-drawn carriage Thursday night when the truck hit the buggy in Holmes County.

August 27th, 2009 Calif. firefighter saves driver before train hitsOXNARD, Calif. — A California firefighter has pulled a trapped driver from his disabled pickup just seconds before a commuter train slammed into the truck.

August 19th, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 25 people were killed and 13 injured when a truck packed with up to 100 people overturned and slipped into a ditch in Central Kalimantan province on the Indonesian part of Borneo Island, a media report said Wednesday. The accident took place Tuesday night when the truck carrying around 100 workers from an oil palm plantation crashed in the district of Sampit, MetroTV reported.

August 13th, 2009 1 killed, 1 injured in Detroit police chaseDETROIT — Authorities say one person has died after a fiery crash in Detroit in which police were chasing a stolen pickup truck when it collided with a minivan, struck a utility pole and then burst into flames. Police said Thursday that the truck's driver died and the driver of the minivan had minor injuries.

July 14th, 2009 3 dead after Amtrak train hits vehicle in IllinoisOTTAWA, Ill. — Three people are dead after their vehicle was struck by an Amtrak train in Illinois.

July 7th, 2009 LUCKNOW - At least five pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh were killed and 12 seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district Tuesday morning, police said. The Marshall jeep carrying the pilgrims had a head-on collision with the truck near Lehangpur locality, Superintendent of Police (Rural) B.N.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two motorcycle riders were crushed to death and another injured when a speeding truck hit them in the national capital Monday night, police said Tuesday. Madan (29) and Lovely (23) were on their way back home when the truck trailing them hit their motorcycle in South Extension area in south Delhi around 10:30 p.m.

June 13th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - As many as 12 labourers were killed on the spot and six others seriously injured as the truck they were riding in overturned near Babra village of Gujarat's Amreli district Saturday. Reports reaching here said 18 labourers were riding in the truck carrying cement from Una near Diu to the Kandla port in the Kutch region when the driver lost control over the vehicle.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A sub-inspector of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed and a head constable injured when a speeding container truck hit their motorcycle from behind in north Delhi, police said Monday. Sub inspector Tejbir, 35, and head constable Sudhir Rana, 30, were returning home on a motorcycle when they were hit from behind by the speeding container truck in the Nangloi area late Sunday.

March 8th, 2009 LONDON - The British government said late Saturday it believed the car crash that injured Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife Susan was indeed an accident and not a politically motivated attack as some have alleged. The truck that collided with Tsvangirai's car belonged to a British-American organisation, the British foreign ministry said in London.