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• Three car collision in Colorado Springs

  January 22, 2013 12:19 AM

  Police continue to clean up from a nasty crash after a head-on collision took out three vehicles on a residential street in Colorado Springs. It happened at the intersection of Murray Blvd & Galley Rd around 6:30 PM. Police say two cars were driving northbound on Murray, one behind the... more »

• Eagle, plane collide at Centennial Airport

  December 8, 2012 8:26 AM

  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - An eagle has collided with a single-engine plane at Centennial Airport. KUSA-TV in Denver reports the collision broke the windshield of a Cessna 172 that was landing around 12:30 Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot suffered a minor cut to the face. The FAA... more »

• Driver killed in head-on crash with semi

  December 3, 2012 1:27 PM

  CHEYENNE COUNTY - A 28-year old man died in a head-on collision with a semi-truck in Cheyenne County. The accident happened at around 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning along Colorado Highway 40 near milepost 438. State troopers say the crash victim was headed west a 2000 Dodge Durango when he... more »

• Whitney Houston's daughter cited in Ga. accident

  November 28, 2012 4:31 PM

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (AP) - Police say the daughter of the late Whitney Houston and Bobbi Brown was cited in a car accident in a northern Atlanta suburb. Officers Wednesday morning responded to a call about a black Chevrolet Camaro that slid off the road and landed in a ditch in... more »

• Jeep, deer collision closes I25

  October 30, 2011 6:51 AM

  North bound I-25 at MM162 is now open after being shut down for more than an hour early this morning. Colorado State Patrol says a jeep hit a deer, and then started on fire. The road is closed while the crash is cleaned up. That happened a little... more »

• Collision on I-25 kills 3

  September 24, 2011 5:19 AM

  A head-on collision has killed three people on southbound I-25. The crash happened around 1 a.m. Saturday morning. Colorado State Patrol responded immediately. A Toyota was travelling north in the southbound lane, and struck an Acura, killing the driver of the Toyota and the driver and passenger of... more »

• Amtrak collision west of Denver

  July 8, 2011 6:14 AM

  PINECLIFFE, Colo. (AP) - An Amtrak train is back on its way after a minor collision with a Union Pacific truck in a canyon west of Denver. No one was injured. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari says the train was headed to Emeryville, Calif., when the accident happened early Thursday... more »

• Nine hurt in collision between Amtrak train, commuter train

  June 3, 2011 2:12 PM

  CHICAGO (AP) - An Amtrak train bound for southern Illinois has collided with a Metro commuter train arriving at Chicago's Union Station, injuring nine people and severely damaging one Metro car. Metra's chief executive officer Alex Clifford said 1,500 passengers were aboard the train when the accident occurred Friday... more »

• Deadly auto accident under investigation in Pueblo

  May 1, 2011 12:06 PM

  Investigators from the Pueblo Police Department are sifting through evidence and statements following a fatal single vehicle accident that took place in the 400 block of Michigan. A statement from police details that a 1997 Chevy Lumina was traveling west on Michigan which merges on to Grant Ave when it... more »

• Woman killed in collision with tree

  April 3, 2011 7:59 AM

  A single vehicle car accident has claimed the life of a 54 year old woman in Colorado Springs. It happened at around 3:20 p.m. Saturday along Uintah Street just east of the intersection with Hancock. Investigators with the Colorado Springs Police Department say that woman was headed west on... more »

• Elderly man dies in skiing collision

  March 12, 2011 12:25 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Officials say a 73-year-old Pennsylvania man is dead following a skiing collision at Colorado's Snowmass Ski Mountain. The Pitkin County Sheriff's Office tells the Denver Post that James E. Juckett collided with another skier Friday. His hometown wasn't immediately available. The county coroner's office is... more »

• 5 hurt in collision of Neon, Thornton police car

  January 29, 2011 3:48 PM

  THORNTON, Colo. (AP) - Thornton police say five people are hurt after a collision between a car and a police officer's vehicle. The crash happened shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday. Police say the officer was heading west on East 100th Avenue when a northbound Plymouth Neon allegedly failed to... more »

• Controller faulted in Hudson midair collision

  September 14, 2010 3:43 PM

  A federal safety panel says an air traffic controller who was engaged in a personal phone call was partly responsible for a midair collision last year over the Hudson River between a tour helicopter and a small plane. The crash on Aug. 8, 2009, killed nine people. The... more »

• Colorado Springs on list of safest drivers

  September 3, 2010 8:37 AM

  Anyone who's nearly been run-down by insane drivers on Academy or Powers may dispute this--but Allstate Insurance ranks Colorado Springs as the fourth-safest driving city with the average driver involved in a collision every 12.5 years. The list was released Thursday of the country's 200 largest cities based on... more »

• Barge collides with tourist boat; two missing

  July 7, 2010 3:47 PM

  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Coast Guard officials say two people are unaccounted for after a barge collided with a tourist boat on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Coast Guard Senior Chief Bud Holden says 35 passengers and two crew members were aboard the amphibious boat when it was struck around... more »

• Near collision near San Francisco

  March 30, 2010 7:37 PM

  Federal investigators are looking into a near collision over San Francisco between a commercial jet and a small airplane that came within 300 feet of each other. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are looking at Saturday's near-miss between United Airlines Flight 889 to Beijing, China,... more »

• Geneva atom smasher sets March 30 for collisions

  March 23, 2010 11:40 AM

  Operators of the world's largest atom smasher say they will try to collide proton beams at record high energy in one week. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says beams have been circulating in the machine at 3.5 trillion electron volts since Friday. That's 3½ times higher than... more »

• Investigation continues into mid-air collision

  February 7, 2010 3:42 PM

  NTSB is holding press conference this afternoon and the wreckage is being removed after a two plane mid-air collision yesterday that killed three people in Boulder County. The crash happened around 1:30 yesterday afternoon when an airplane towing a glider collided with another plane, sending both crashing into the ground.... more »

• Bird-plane collisions may pass 10,000, a first

  January 12, 2010 10:00 AM

  Reports of airplanes hitting birds and other wildlife could reach or even exceed 10,000 for the first time when the final, soaring, 2009 tally is completed. The spike in reports comes since a stricken US Airways jet landed in New York's Hudson River. Experts say there are two reasons: more... more »

• 9 missing after Coast Guard plane, Marine helicopter collide

  October 30, 2009 9:09 AM

  The Coast Guard tells federal officials it has spotted debris that could be from a Coast Guard plane that crashed into a Marine Corps helicopter in mid-air. The Navy and Coast Guard are searching the waters off Southern California's coast for the nine people who were believed to be on... more »

• Japan warship collides with commercial vessel

  October 27, 2009 11:26 AM

  A Japanese navy destroyer has collided with a commercial vessel off southern Japan, starting fires on both ships and injuring three crew members, defense officials said Tuesday. The destroyer JS Kurama collided with the South Korean container ship Carina Star on Tuesday night in the Kanmon Strait near the... more »

• Tanker spills oil after collision off Texas

  October 21, 2009 10:49 AM

  The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday responded to a tanker collision in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off Texas that the ship's captain said led to an 18,000 gallon oil spill. "The leak has been secured and there were no injuries reported on either vessel," the Coast Guard... more »

• Coyote survives, stuck in car after collision

  October 20, 2009 10:57 AM

  What happens when a speeding Honda meets a coyote head on? You might be surprised. Daniel East and his sister, Tevyn, were traveling at about 75 mph along Interstate 80 when they saw some coyotes running nearby. One of the coyotes ran in front of the car. "Right... more »