CORBIN, Ky. (WKYT) - State police now know the names of the people involved in a deadly crash Thursday morning in southern Kentucky.Investigators say Willard Eaton, 77, was pulling out from a parking lot just off the Cumberland Gap Parkway when he pulled into the path of a suburban, traveling westbound.He was then taken to the Baptist Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.Police say Eaton was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the collision.The driver of the suburban, Christopher Davis, 27, was not injured.Police closed the road for a couple of hours to reconstruct the deadly crash. The road is now back open. NEW YORK (AP) - Authorities in New York City say 29 people have been injured overnight in a five-alarm fire on Staten Island.The Fire Department says 19 firefighters and 10 civilians suffered injuries ranging from minor to serious.Nearly all were taken to the hospital but none of the injuries is considered life-threatening.About 200 firefighters responded to the blaze at 1 a.m. Thursday.A fire department spokesman says the fire consumed three, 2-story townhouses.He said around 6 a.m. that the fire was expected to be brought under control shortly.The Staten Island Advance says a man screaming from a window tossed two small children down to a couple below.Anthony DiSimone, who caught the boy, says the children were shaken up but seemed OK.Firefighters eventually got the man out as well. SAN DIEGO (AP) - Officials say a Navy jet crashed into the sea as it prepared to make a late-night landing on an aircraft carrier, but the pilot ejected and was listed in stable condition.Navy spokeswoman Lt. Reagan B. Lauritzen says the F/A-18E Super Hornet was making its approach to the USS Carl Vinson off the southern California coast about 10 p.m. Wednesday when it went down.Other aircraft from the vessel still in the air were safely diverted to the naval airstrip at the Coronado section of San Diego.Lauritzen says the cause of the crash will be investigated.It was the second military aircraft crash in the California area Wednesday. In the afternoon, a Marine Harrier jet crashed in flames in a residential area of Imperial but no one was hurt. The pilot safely ejected and no one on the ground was injured. IMPERIAL, Calif. (AP) - A Marines spokeswoman says a military jet that crashed in a Southern California neighborhood hit some homes after the pilot ejected.Cpl. Melissa Lee says the pilot ejected safely and was taken to a hospital for evaluation. Theres no word on whether anyone on the ground was hurt.Witnesses say two houses caught fire after the crash early Wednesday evening in Imperial, about 90 miles east of San Diego.A Marine spokesman, Lance Cpl. Christopher Johns, says the jet was a Harrier from Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:26:17 +0000
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