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		<title>Driver of Tour Van Involved in Deadly Idaho Crash Was Licensed in California</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 13:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Idaho State Police said the driver of the tour van involved in a deadly collision with a pickup truck was licensed in California and the company that organized the trip was Ctour Holiday LLC, a large tour operator that provides &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>3 Construction Workers Killed Doing Overnight Sealing on I-83, Police Say</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2024/04/18/770594.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[LEWISBERRY, Pa. (AP) — Three construction workers on a maintenance project along a Pennsylvania interstate were struck and killed by a truck early Wednesday, state police said. Investigators said a 24-year-old man was driving a large box truck at about &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Death Toll Lowered to 7 in Louisiana Super Fog Highway Crashes Involving 160 Vehicles</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The death toll from last week&#8217;s series of highway crashes blamed on a &#8220;super fog&#8221; of smoke from marsh fires mixed with dense fog has been lowered from eight to seven people, according to Louisiana State &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Victims of Deadly Oregon Highway Crash Were Farmworkers, Union Says</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 13:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The victims of one of Oregon&#8217;s deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically commute home after toiling in the harvest, the state&#8217;s farmworkers union and Mexican officials said. Authorities have not &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>6 Killed in 3-Vehicle Crash on Texas Highway, Authorities Say</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2023/01/04/701737.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[GEORGE WEST, Texas (AP) – A minivan trying to overtake a vehicle in a no-passing zone on a Texas highway crashed head-on into an SUV, which was then rear-ended by another vehicle, authorities said. Six people died and five others &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Illinois Wrong-Way Crash Kills 7, Including 5 Children</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2022/08/02/678442.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A crash involving a wrong-way car on an interstate in northern Illinois left seven people dead Sunday, including five children, authorities said. The crash occurred around 2 a.m. on Interstate 90 in McHenry County, roughly 50 miles (80 kilometers) from &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>3 Dead After Highway Crashes During Stormy Arkansas Weather</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2022/06/13/671562.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[At least three people were killed traveling on Interstate 30 in southwest Arkansas during a series of crashes that happened during stormy weather last week, authorities said. The June 8 crashes began in the eastbound lanes of the interstate near &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>6 Students Killed in Southern Oklahoma Crash With Semi</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Six teenage students have been killed in a two-vehicle collision in southern Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said March 22. The students were in a passenger vehicle that collided with a semi about 12:30 p.m. in Tishomingo, a rural city &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2 Dead After more than 100 Vehicles Crash on Icy Missouri Roads</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2018/02/06/479727.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Authorities say at least two people have died in a series of crashes involving more than 100 vehicles on snowy and icy Missouri highways. The Kansas City Star says the series of wrecks began around 2 p.m. Sunday, with the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Proposal Aims to Make Deadly Indiana Highway Safer</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2017/09/13/464122.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Indiana Department of Transportation has proposed a way to make a deadly stretch of highway in western Indiana safer. Department officials told the Vincennes Sun-Commercial that an intersection of U.S. 41 near Oaktown may be turned into a J-turn &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bus Driver in Fatal Louisiana Wreck Previously Cited for Lack of License</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/08/30/424887.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Louisiana State Police say a bus driver accused of killing two people in a five-vehicle wreck on Sunday had been ticketed Aug. 5 for driving without a license. Trooper Melissa Matey says 37-year-old Denis Yasmir Amaya Rodriguez of Honduras was &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bus in Fatal Texas Crash Had Seatbelts Only in First Row</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/05/18/409065.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 16:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Officials investigating a charter bus crash that killed eight people and injured 44 on a rain-slicked South Texas highway said that the vehicle had seat belts only in the first row. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Johnny Hernandez said &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas &#8216;Affluenza&#8217; Teen Sentenced to Nearly 2 Years in Jail</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/04/14/405499.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Texas teenager who used an &#8220;affluenza&#8221; defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck must serve nearly two years in jail, a judge ordered. Ethan Couch, who turned 19 on April 11, was making his first appearance in adult court. Initially, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ohio Sees Increase in Fatal Wrong-Way Highway Crashes</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2016/04/12/405003.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[State transportation records show an increase in wrong-way highway crashes in Ohio, with more deaths so far in 2016 than in all of 2014. The Dayton Daily News reports Ohio Department of Transportation records show 47 wrong-way interstate highway crashes &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Highway Death Toll Takes Troubling Turn: Up 8.1% This Year</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/11/25/390129.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The death toll on U.S. highways rose 8.1 percent in the first half of 2015 as low fuel prices contributed to a jump in miles driven by Americans, according to new figures from the Transportation Department. The preliminary figures represent &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Drug Deaths Outnumbered Highway Fatalities in Virginia for 1st Time Last Year</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2015/10/16/385329.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Deaths from heroin and opioid use outnumbered highway fatalities in Virginia for the first time last year, officials said. Records show that 728 Virginians died from drug overdoses in 2014, while 700 people died on the state&#8217;s roads. The increase &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Highway Fatalities in West Virginia Down 18 percent in 2014</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2015/03/16/360548.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 04:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Highway fatalities in West Virginia dropped from 332 in 2013 to 271 in 2014, according to a statement by the state&#8217;s Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Pat Reed. The decline shows the state is moving in the right direction toward &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wyoming Up Nearly Double So Far From Last Year</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Nearly twice as many people have died on Wyoming highways so far this year compared with 2013. Wyoming Highway Patrol figures show that 135 people have died as of last week this year in highway crashes. At the same point &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fireman: Trucker &#8216;Zombie&#8217;-Like After Fatal Bus Crash</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2014/10/24/344715.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer. Staley had been heading north on Interstate 35 near Davis, Okla., &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cause of Oklahoma Truck-Bus Crash Still a Mystery</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2014/10/01/342171.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The softball coach who was driving a team bus smashed into by an errant truck did everything he could to save four players who died in the accident, a relative said, even as investigators tried to solve the mystery of &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Delaware Troopers Issue Over 1K Traffic Citations in I-95 Crackdown</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2014/05/21/329780.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 16:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Delaware troopers were busy this past weekend cracking down on traffic violations during a multistate enforcement safety initiative along Interstate 95. The Drive to Save Lives initiative was a one-day effort involving police in all 15 states along the I-95 &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Judge Rules Again: No Jail for Texas &#8216;Affluenza&#8217; Teen in Fatal Car Wreck</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2014/02/07/319871.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A judge has ordered a Texas teenager who was sentenced to 10 years&#8217; probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people to go to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents. Judge Jean Boyd on Feb. 5 again &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Slight Uptick in South Dakota Highway Fatalities</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2012/12/17/274236.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 06:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Highway fatalities in South Dakota are up slightly this year after a 20 percent drop in 2011, state Department of Public Safety officials say. So far in 2012, 125 people have died in automobile accidents, department spokesman Terry Woster told &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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