Monday, 24 September 2012

Police Investigate Crash Along Highway



A Redmond middle school principal died Friday when his motorcycle crashed into guardrail on Highway 26, Oregon State Police reported.
John Kevin Hartford, 54, of Redmond, principal at Elton Gregory Middle School, died around 5:25 p.m. Friday at the scene at milepost 52 near the Crook and Wheeler counties line, according to police. Police identified Hartford today.
State police Sgt. Mike Turner in a news release reported Hartford’s eastbound 2008 Yamaha was taking a curve when it struck a guardrail and Hartford was thrown from the bike. Passing motorists found Hartford along the highway and started first aid until relieved by paramedics and firefighters from Mitchell Fire Department and Crook County Fire and Rescue.
Hartford was wearing a helmet; the OSP investigation of the crash is underway, state police reported.
The Redmond School District, in a prepared statement today, said it mourns Hartford’s loss. He became Gregory principal in 2009 after three years as principal at M.A. Lynch Elementary School.
“All who encountered John admired his courage, honesty, and unwavering love for the students and staff of Elton Gregory Middle School and the Redmond School District

Oregon State Police are investigating an early Sunday crash along Hwy 47 north of Yamhill that seriously injured one person.
At approximately 7 a.m., driver Martin Alfaro Parrera, 24, from Beaverton, reportedly collided head-on with the other driver, 37-year-old Levi Eckhart from Banks.
Parrera was traveling northbound in the southbound land on the highway near milepost 33, and Eckhart swerved toward the northbound lane to avoid the car. Both swerved at the same time into the northbound lane.
Parrera was transported by ambulance to Tuality Community Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, but his passenger, 24-year-old Anabel Sereno Huitron, was transported by LifeFlight to Oregon Health & Science University with serious injuries

Federal Consumer Rights and Healthcare Supervisory Service head, Russian Chief Public Health Official Gennady Onishchenko has proposed life-time deprivation of driving licenses for drunken drivers.
“I suggest that we should do more, not just fine them. People who own cars are not poor; they can afford paying a fine. They don’t mind paying 100,000 rubles. Criminal punishment must be strict and, possibly, there must be life-time deprivation of driving licenses,” Onishchenko told Interfax on Monday. “This absurd and terrible tragedy is another proof there must no discussion of the permissible dose of alcohol in the bloodstream. Not under any pretext,” he said. A drunken driver knocked down people on a bus stop on Minskaya Street of Moscow on Sept. 22. Seven people died and three were injured. The accident killed five orphans, an orphanage pedagogue and her husband.
The Moscow police department said that the driver, Alexander Maksimov born in 1982, had been charged with five administrative offenses earlier. Laboratory tests confirmed that he was drunk United Russia promised to amend laws for increasing manifold the fine for drunken driving. There will be criminal punishment for repeating this offense, even if no one is

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