Author: Demure

Xavier Smith was just 22 years old. He lived in New Market, Virginia. On Thursday morning his life ended in a crash at the intersection of Spotswood Trail and New Hope Road. The wreck happened around 10:35 a.m. in McGaheysville, part of Rockingham County. Smith rode a 2018 Yamaha motorcycle eastbound on Spotswood Trail. Police…

Elizabeth Ramirez Tellez was 30 and lived in Wilmington. She died Wednesday morning in a two-vehicle crash in New Castle. She was driving her car south on West Basin Road near Washington Avenue around 8:45 a.m. A Chevrolet Tahoe headed north on the same road. Both vehicles entered the intersection at the same time. The…

Daemon Ackerman was just 21 years old. He lived in Florence, Massachusetts. On Sunday his motorcycle crashed on Burts Pit Road. The Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said he died from the injuries. Crews took him to Cooley Dickinson Hospital. He did not make it. People who knew him say he had plans. He had places…

Maddie Aasbo was 22 and teaching a student how to fly when two helicopters smashed into each other over a farm field near McMinnville Municipal Airport. It happened Thursday afternoon around 2:15. She never made it home. Aasbo sat in the Robinson R22 with a student pilot from the United Kingdom. The other bird was…

Marcus Shelton was 42 when two cars hit him on Robinson Drive in Waco Texas last night. He died right there on the street. Police got the call around 7:40 p.m. on October 29. He was walking in the roadway in the 2700 block. Both drivers stayed put and talked to the officers. No one…

Paul Alexander Kirkland, 35, from Caddo Mills, Texas, died after his dirt bike wreck near Prince in Fayette County, West Virginia. Deputies got word Thursday morning about a missing person report from Raleigh County. Around 8 a.m. a CSX worker walking the tracks found Kirkland’s body near the Prince train station. Investigators say Kirkland rode…

PRINCE, W.Va. — A late-night ride through the West Virginia hills turned fatal for 35-year-old Paul Alexander Kirkland, whose body went undiscovered along a remote stretch of railroad tracks until Thursday morning. Kirkland, originally from Caddo Mills, Texas, had been reported missing in neighboring Raleigh County just hours before a railroad worker stumbled across the…

Tucson, Arizona street crews were still directing traffic around East Speedway Boulevard late Wednesday afternoon while traffic detectives measured tire marks left in the dirt. Carlos J. Canez, 39, lost his life right there at the scene after his vehicle drifted off the pavement and slammed directly into a utility pole near Kolb Road. First…

John Burger III never made it home that Wednesday night. The 57-year-old from Tabernacle hit a stopped car on his three-wheeled motorcycle and got thrown hard. It happened around 6:18 p.m. near White Horse Pike and Briarcliff Road in Waterford Township. Police got the call about a bad crash with a motorcyclist down. John struck…

Rickie Hess Jr. was out on his Harley-Davidson Thursday evening when things went wrong fast. The 52-year-old from Greenville rode south on State Route 121 near Wayne Lakes. It was about 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 29. Deputies from the Darke County Sheriff’s Office got the call right away. They headed to the 3400 block of…