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Car slides into river, girl drowns

Posted by admin on Saturday, 26 March, 2011

Car slides into river, girl drowns
OREGON – A 17-year-old Byron High School senior drowned Wednesday night when she lost control of her car, which then overturned and slid into the Rock River.
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One dead after car veers off road in Lake Zurich
One person was killed after a car apparently veered off a street Thursday afternoon, striking another car and a pedestrian standing outside it in northwest suburban Lake Zurich.The crash happened about 2:50 p.m. on U.S. Route 12 near Honey Lake Road, a release from Lake Zurich police said. Officers discovered a three-vehicle crash with one person seriously injured.A vehicle that was heading …
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Woman dead after being pulled from car in pond Video

Posted by admin on Saturday, 26 March, 2011

Woman dead after being pulled from car in pond Video
Divers have pulled a woman from a car submerged in a pond at Harper College in northwest suburban Palatine this afternoon.
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Mandeville car burglary suspect arrested in Georgia
Police in Georgia arrested a man allegedly responsible for several car burglaries in Mandeville and Jefferson Parish, authorities said Thursday.   Ellis Lucia / The Times-Picayune Jeffrey Williams, 23, was picked up by police in Morrow, Ga., and is being held there on a…
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Sheriff: Drowning victim drove car into river
A man told witnesses that he wasn’t going back to jail before driving his vehicle into the Black Warrior River Friday, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ted Sexton said.
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Woman killed by reversing car on Coast

Posted by admin on Friday, 25 March, 2011

[Shulman's Market at the southeast corner of N Street and Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C., with a 1931 Chevrolet car parked in front] (LOC)
Car

Image by The Library of Congress
Rosskam, Louise,, 1910-, photographer.

[Shulman's Market at the southeast corner of N Street and Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C., with a 1931 Chevrolet car parked in front]

[between 1941 and 1942]

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title devised by Library staff, with car model and street corner direction identified through the Flickr Commons project, 2009.
Identification based on similarity to transparency USF35-629.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Grocery stores
Automobiles
United States–District of Columbia–Washington (D.C.)

Format: Transparencies–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection t 11671-30 missing since 1981 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34424

Call Number: LC-USF35-636

Woman killed by reversing car on Coast
A WOMAN walking along a footpath at Mermaid Beach has been killed after being run over by a station wagon being reversed out of a driveway.
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Body found in burnt-out car
A body has been found in a burnt-out car on the NSW north coast, police say.
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Guilty verdict in Wal-Mart armored car killing
A man accused of planning a deadly June 2009 robbery at the Lakewood Wal-Mart was found guilty Thursday by a Tacoma jury.
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Another by-the-hour car renter rolls into Boston
Another on-demand car company is rolling into Boston today, joining several other “car-sharing’’ services that are challenging the industry leader, Zipcar Inc., on its home turf.
Read more on Boston Globe


Car-title computers down since weekend

Posted by admin on Thursday, 24 March, 2011

[Race car driver Bob Burman and his "Blitzen Benz"] (LOC)
Car

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Race car driver Bob Burman and his "Blitzen Benz"]

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Current title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the source: Flickr Commons Project, 2008.
Original title on negative: "Burman."
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Automobile racing

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09238

Call Number: LC-B2- 2202-5

Car-title computers down since weekend
DENVER – The computer that issues titles for vehicles in Colorado is down currently. This problem also affects online registration renewals.
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Car dealership chain AutoNation CEO Jackson’s compensation grows to .8 million in 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – AutoNation Inc. CEO Mike Jackson received a pay package valued at nearly $ 6.8 million in fiscal 2010, up 31 percent from fiscal 2009.
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Blazing car disturbs quiet Williamstown neighbourhood

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 22 March, 2011

Blazing car disturbs quiet Williamstown neighbourhood
RESIDENTS of Park Cres, Williamstown, were woken by a series of explosions when a car caught fire in their “quiet” street early on Sunday, March 13.
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New guides for car seats: Kids younger than 2 should face rear
Angela Trimpey was so excited to turn her daughter Autumn’s car seat around that she took pictures. “It was like Christmas,” she joked. Now, that rite of passage might have to wait a year.
Read more on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

2 plead in Philly armored car robbery, shooting
Two men have pleaded guilty in an armored car robbery, high-speed chase and shootout that left a police officer wounded.
Read more on 6abc Philadelphia

AAP updates recommendations on car seats
New guidelines out today may save your baby’s life during a car accident. The American Academy of Pediatrics has doubled their recommendations for rear-facing car seats for toddlers. Research shows kids are up to 75% less likely to die or be seriously injured in a crash.
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