Brakes disconnected before fatal crash, with driver expected to survive

Brakes disconnected before fatal crash, with driver expected to survive

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A car smashed into a pole Tuesday morning in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood and killed a woman, police said.

The crash began about 11:40 a.m. in the 600 block of West Washington Street when a Chevrolet Tahoe ran a stop sign, according to the Chicago Police Department. The driver of the vehicle, identified as 51-year-old Kimberly C. Sperry, of the 1500 block of West Cottage Grove Avenue, was pronounced dead at the scene by Chicago Fire Department paramedics.

The car collided with a utility pole that was placed under a car parked near the intersection. It then ran over the pole, hitting the pole again.

A 27-year-old woman and two children were inside the car when the accident occurred, authorities said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 30-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition. Her condition was stabilized late Tuesday afternoon, according to a spokesman for Stroger Hospital, where she was taken for surgery.

Witnesses reported seeing the car heading northbound on Washington Street. The westbound driver, whom police identified as Kimberly C. Sperry, is described as black with short hair, and she was wearing blue jeans and a white baseball cap, according to the Chicago Tribune. The northbound driver was described as male.

Neighbors said Sperry had an older daughter and had been taking her to and from work recently. The children were sitting in the front passenger seat of the car when the crash happened, but no one inside was injured in the crash, police said.

«Our hearts go out to her family. You know, you could see her just go,» said neighbor P영양출장샵 영양출장마사지atricia «Dani» Fong, who was in the area at the time of the accident. «You don’t think about that very much. She was trying to help the kids out. It’s just a horrible thing that happened.»

Sperry is survived by her boyfriend and another person and is believed to have taken her two young daughters to a nearby church for Easter, said Joseph Sullivan, a family friend.

Friends said the car was well known for its high-speed pursuits in the city’s North Lawndale neighborhood.

«All we can do is mourn her very much. She’s a wonderful, good person. 예스 카지노She was doing great things in her life,» Sulliva실시간 카지노n said.

Us officials foil jfk plot

Us officials foil jfk plot

By Jonathan Cook

15 September 2011

At an unannounced meeting with the US ambassador to the UN on Tuesday night, Nigerian authorities and intelligence agents in the field thwarted a jihadist plot to attack the UN headquarters in New York.

The terrorist organization Boko Haram, which has become a major terrorist threat to African countries, is demanding the return of hundreds of girls and women from the northeast of the country, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said in a statement. The UN Security Council on Wednesday passed two new sanctions on the group, including barring it from funding or recruiting international terror organizations.

The Boko Haram plot was revealed by a senior UN official, in a joint statement from the head of UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR and the heads of several other coun바카라사이트tries. The plot is connected to the November 2009 Boko Haram attack on a bus carrying Nigerian secu카지노 사이트rity guards in Abuja which killed 16. It is being investigated by the US military.

Nigeria is a UN member country and is at the heart of the UN response to the Boko Haram threat.

«The attacks yesterday [on the UN offices in New York] were the result of the intelligence gathering which led to the seizure of this item by the Nigerian authorities,» said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak on the record.

The UN official declined to give further details.

Boko Haram has been identified as one of several terrorist groups operating in northern Nigeria. On September 13, at least seven people were killed and another 20 were 예스카지노wounded in another attack near the town of Gama.