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At Least 10 Useless, Extra Than A Dozen Injured After Overloaded Van Carrying Migrants Crashes In South Texas

ENCINO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – An overloaded van carrying 29 migrants crashed Wednesday on a distant South Texas freeway, killing no less than 10 folks, together with the motive force, and injuring 20 others, authorities mentioned. The crash occurred shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday, August 4, on U.S. 281 in Encino, Texas, about 50 miles north of McAllen. Sgt. Nathan Brandley of the Texas Division…

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Eight Injured After Passenger Van Rammed by Pickup in Central Thailand

BANGKOK – Eight passengers were injured after their van that was headding to Rayong province was struck by a pickup truck loaded with vegetables that rear-ended another truck, which then rammed into their van, causing it to hit a roadside tree in Phu Phan district of Sakon Nakhon Province in the early hours of Saturday.

Pol Capt Somchai Yotsaphon, a duty-officer at Phu Phan police station said the crash happened on Sakon Nakhon-Kalasin Road near Thongchai military camp, at around 2am.

A van with was found crashing into a tree. The people trapped inside were screaming for help when police and rescue workers arrived at the scene.

Eight people were retrieved from the wreckage, including a nine-year-old whose legs were trapped in the damaged console. Rescue workers had to cut it open to take her out. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital.

Two damaged pickup trucks were found on the road. An unknown number of injured people on board the vehicles had been sent to a hospital.

Van driver Prasit Saenphuwa, 47, of Sakon Nakhon, who sustained minor injuries told police that he was driving the van to pick up his eight relatives from Kut Pak district of this northeastern province. They planned to go to Rayong province in the East for a vacation.

When his van arrived at the scene, he saw a Toyota Vigo pickup truck in the middle of the road, preparing to turn to an alley in the opposite direction. Suddenly, another pickup truck loaded with vegetables rear-ended the first one.

The force of the crash caused the first pickup truck to crash into the van, which later rammed into a tree, said the van driver.

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Passenger Van, Freight Truck Crash, then Careen into a Canal Drowning 10 People

KANCHANABURI – Police, rescue workers and drivers were summoned to an accent scene in Kanchanaburi Province,(famous for the bridge over the River Khwai), after a passenger van and a freight truck collided, then careened into a canal killing 10 people.

The fatal crash occurred at the Srasetthi intersection in tambon Ban Muang around 12.20pm when the passenger van carrying the workers collided with the trailer truck. The force of the crash threw the two vehicles and all 14 people traveling in them into a roadside canal, according to a rescue team and local media reports.

About 100 rescue workers, divers, police officers and soldiers were on the scene searching for the victims. Eight bodies were retrieved from the canal. The dead included a pregnant woman. Four people were safely rescued and taken to a nearby hospital, said a member of the rescue team.

It was believed two people were still in the canal, believed to have drowned. The search is ongoing.

Van Related Incidents Show Startling Increase

A report conducted by Fundación Linea Directa, in collaboration with the University Institute for Traffic Research and Road Safety (INTRAS), has analysed, in depth, 445,000 road traffic incidents with victims between 2011 and 2015, in which 750,000 drivers were involved and a total of 41,000 vans, as well as more than 940,000 incidents dealt with by the Línea Directa insurance company between…

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MUENSTER, Germany | The Latest: Muenster van driver well known to German police

MUENSTER, Germany| April 8, 2018 (AP)(STL.News)  The Latest on the van crash in the German city of Muenster (all times local):

1:30 p.m.

Authorities say a 48-year-old German man who killed two people and injured 20 others in a van crash before shooting himself to death in Muenster was well known to police.

Prosecutor Elke Adomeit told reporters Sunday there had been three previous court procedures in the western city of Muenster and one in nearby Arnsberg in 2015 and 2016 involving the van driver.

Adomeit said the perpetrator, whose name was not released, had run-ins with the law regarding threats, property damage, fraud and a hit-and-run, but that all charges were dismissed.

Adomeit also said authorities “have no indications that there is a political background” to Saturday’s deadly crash outside the Kiepenkerl bar in the city’s old town.

Muenster police president Hajo Kulisch said the man had four apartments and several cars, all of which were searched by police.

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1:10 p.m.

German authorities say some of the 20 people injured when a van crashed into people outside of a pub in Muenster are still in a life-threatening condition.

Authorities have not identified the injured in the crash Saturday in the western German city but a German security official says people from The Netherlands are among them.

Armin Laschet, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia state, where Muenster is located, visited the crash scene on Sunday. He says, “this was a horrible and sad day for the people of Muenster, all of Germany … and also the people of The Netherlands, who were sitting here and became victims.”

Laschet didn’t give any further details on how many Dutch were injured when a 48-year-old German crashed his van into a crowd in the city’s downtown area. Two people were killed in the crash and the van driver took his own life.

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11:35 a.m.

The German news agency dpa is quoting police as saying that that the driver who crashed his van into a crowd in the western German city of Muenster had no accomplices.

The 48-year-old German man killed two people and injured 20 others Saturday before shooting himself to death in the van.

Witnesses of Saturday’s crash had initially said they’d seen two other perpetrators flee the van after it crashed into a crowd outside the city’s traditional Kiepenkerl pub in the city’s medieval old town.

The driver of the van was not identified by name. Authorities are still clueless about his motives and said they’re investigating in all possible directions.

Local media have described the 48-year-old as a psychologically instable man.

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11 p.m.

German prosecutors said Sunday they still have no indication why a 48-year-old German man drove a van into a crowd of people in the western German city of Muenster, killing two and injuring 20 before shooting himself to death inside the van.

“As of now, we don’t have any leads regarding a possible background for the deed,” prosecutor Martin Botzenhardt wrote in a joint statement with police. “The investigations are being led under high pressure in all possible directions.”

Authorities have identified the two fatalities of Saturday’s crash as a 51-year-old woman from Lueneburg County and a 65-year-old man from Broken County. Their names weren’t given as is customary in Germany.

Local media have identified the perpetrator as an industrial designer living in Muenster who had been suffering from psychological problems, but police wouldn’t confirm those details.

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9 a.m.

Inside the van in Muenster, police found illegal firecrackers which were disguised as a fake bomb, a fake pistol and the gun that the perpetrator used to kill himself.

Inside the man’s apartment, which was nearby the crash scene and raided late Saturday, police found more firecrackers and a “no longer usable AK-47 machine gun.”

Police said some of the 20 injured persons were still in life-threatening condition, but did not release further details on their identities.

The local daily Muenstersche Zeitung reported that the perpetrator had vaguely announced his suicide plans a week ago in an email to friends and that he was known to the authorities for previous violence and drug violations, but police wouldn’t confirm any of those details.

The 48-year-old had driven his van into a crowd Saturday afternoon in the historical city center of Muenster. The city was buzzing on one of the first warm spring days of the year and people were sitting outside the Kiepenkerl when he drove into the bar’s tables with such a vengeance that the vehicle only came to a stop when it hit the wall of the pub. Police quickly evacuated the area and ambulances, firefighters and helicopters rushed to the scene to aid those who were injured.

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Grieshaber reported from Berlin.

By Associated Press – published on STL.News by St. Louis Media, LLC (A.S)