Monthly Archives: July 2010

Giants rookie Chad Jones leaving hospital after major car accident

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New York Giants rookie safety Chad Jones is heading home to New Orleans after a nearly monthlong stay in the hospital after an awful car accident.

The Giants say the third-round draft pick from LSU was scheduled to be released from the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan on Tuesday morning to return to home.

Jones was transferred to the hospital after suffering serious injuries to his left leg and ankle in an early morning car accident in New Orleans.

Jones has undergone several surgeries both in New Orleans and New York since the accident. He plans to rest and recuperate in New Orleans before returning to New York in several weeks and undergoing further surgery.

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Elderly woman killed in red-light running crash in Phoenix

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A 71-year-old woman is dead and others are injured after a collision at 59th Avenue and Indian School Road.

The crash happened Saturday afternoon and shut the road down for hours.

3TV’s Tyler Baldwin spoke to the family who survived the crash and say their condolences go out to the family that lost someone special.

Looking over the deadly crash Juan Velazquez admits he cannot believe his sister survived. “The first thing that came out of her mouth was ‘God helped me’.”

Juan’s sister, Laura Velazquez, was carpooling to work at Chase bank with a friend.

They were driving northbound on 59th Avenue when, according to witnesses, an elderly woman driving a white pick-up heading west on Indian School ran the red light.

Juan tells 3TV, “It’s been hard on my sister. She feels responsible but there was nothing that she could have done.”

The passenger in the grey car hurt her head and broke a rib or two but is expected to be okay. Laura Velazquez walked away with nothing but scraped knees. Her brother tells 3TV God was looking out for his sister. “That’s all that happened. God was with my sister. In that moment of the accident she called God’s name and telling him to help.”

The investigation is still ongoing but it does not look like alcohol was a factor in the wreck nor was speed.

The 71-year-old woman’s name has not being released because her family has not been notified.

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$10,000 Reward offered in Queen Creek hit and run

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The Pinal County Sheriff’s Department is looking for the driver in an unsolved hit and run.

Deputies know the driver who crashed into a Queen Creek man and left him for dead also left a piece of their car behind, but don’t have much else to go on.

Both Michael Salls and his wife have siblings who were killed by hit and run drivers.

Salls spoke for the first time since the hit and run that put him in the hospital, hoping someone can help police find the driver.

“Everybody tells me after seeing the bike, hearing how fast I was going, seeing the impact, they’re surprised I even survived,” he said.

Salls was on his motorcycle heading north on Ellsworth Avenue, crossing Empire Blvd. in the San Tan Valley on July 16 when a car failed to yield turning left right in front of him.

“I remember the headlights of the car,” he said. Then came the crash, the road rash, the lacerations, torn muscles and serious neck and back pain. Salls was thrown about 30 yards from the point of impact to the other side of the intersection.

The driver that hit Salls just kept on going, but left behind their front bumper, which was wrapped around Salls’ motorcycle.  Police say that bumper helped identify the suspect vehicle as a 2006 or 2007 black four door Toyota Corolla.

Salls hopes this limited information and $10,000 in reward money will lead to an arrest.

If you know anything about this you are urged to call the Pinal County Sheriff’s Department.

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NY officer hit bicyclist, left without helping

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A New York City police officer has been charged with hitting a bicyclist with his police car and driving off.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office says Officer Louis Ramos was charged Tuesday with assault, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

According to a criminal complaint, Ramos hit the cyclist June 14. The complaint says Ramos got out of the car, pulled the cyclist to the curb, handed him a tissue and then drove off without reporting it or calling an ambulance.

The accident was captured on surveillance cameras.

Ramos has pleaded not guilty. He has been suspended without pay. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association declined to comment.

The cyclist was treated for cuts, bruises and a fractured wrist.

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Both lanes of NB I-17 near New River open after semi-truck catches fire

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Lines of cars waited to head north on the I-17 after a semi-truck crashed and caught fire forcing the roadway to close for much of Wednesday afternoon.

3TV”s Ryan O’Donnell was a few cars back when the semi-truck caught fire on the northbound lanes of the I-17 near Table Mesa Road and was able to snap some up close photos of the blaze.

The scene of the accident is just a couple miles north of New River.

Traffic was taken off the I-17 at the New River exit while crews worked to extinguish the blaze for a couple of hours just after 12:00 p.m.

The Department of Public Safety re-opened both lanes of traffic around 4:15 p.m.