January 13th, 2010
By C Winsor
Kevin Callahan has been charged with traffic violations for a fatal crash that occurred in Baltimore on October 5th.
Callahan was working for United Postal Service (UPS) when he ran a red light and smashed broadside into a car driven by Baltimore Sun business editor Tim Wheatley. Wheatley was driving his 9-year-old daughter Sarah to her elementary school, but never made it there. He was killed on the scene of the accident. Sarah barely survived the impact with severe head injuries.
Callahan was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. There were no problems with his vehicle. All it took was the unintentional violation of a simple traffic law to end a life of one person and nearly kill another.
Immediately after the accident, Callahan was suspended from his job as a UPS driver. After several weeks of investigation it was determined that he was at fault and he was subsequently fired.
A spokeswoman for UPS admitted that the accident was completely avoidable. Callahan has been charged with failure to stop at a red light and negligent driving.
Callahan had no intent to harm Wheatley and his young daughter. He faces only the fines associated with each of the three citations. While this is good new for him, it admittedly leaves little closure for the Wheatley family.
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November 18th, 2009
By Janice Johnson
A 28-year-old Round Rock woman was killed Sunday in a wreck just before 3 a.m. in the 11000 block of South Texas 195 in Killeen.
Officers responded to a report of a Jeep traveling north in the southbound lane of Texas 195 As they were en route, callers reported a crash at 2:54 a.m. Beverly Leeann Baker, of Round Rock, was declared dead at the scene.
A preliminary investigation revealed that a 26-year-old Killeen man was driving a 2003 Jeep Wrangler on the wrong side of the road, police said. The Jeep’s driver swerved to avoid a vehicle that was traveling south, spun and struck the front of a 1993 Buick Regal that was behind the other vehicle. The Jeep then rolled and burst into flames.
The Buick was occupied by a 38-year-old man from Austin and two women. The man and a 30-year-old woman from Georgetown who was seated in the rear of the Buick were taken to Scott & White Memorial Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said. Baker was pronounced dead at 3:30 a.m.
The driver of the Jeep was severely burned and airlifted to Scott & White; he will be transferred to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, police said.
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November 16th, 2009
By Janice Johnson
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers are looking for a run-a-way driver who may have caused a car accident that killed a 5-year-old Texas girl.
Lily Bunker, a vivacious, beautiful little girl, died five days before Halloween on her way to school. She was in the kindergarten at Prairie Lea schools in Caldwell County.
Witnesses say the driver of an 18-wheeler hauling gravel attempted to switch lanes just before approaching FM 1977. The driver clipped a Mercedes in the next lane. It sent that Mercedes into oncoming traffic. It struck the back of Bunker’s Camero where Lily and her 7-year-old brother Jamie were sitting.
The truck driver who caused the accident, never stopped.
DPS Troopers describe the gravel truck as a white or gray 18-wheeler with bottom- or rear-dumping capability. The truck driver could face the felony charge of failure to stop and render aid. If you can help solve this case, call DPS at 512-398-4333.
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