Woman arrested for DUI after car hits home, runs over Lynn Garden retaining wall Published July 31st, 2012 3:45 am

Kingsport police have arrested a motorist who allegedly struck a home off of Lynn Garden Drive, then fled the scene and drove over a nearby retaining wall.

The incident began at approximately 3:30 p.m. Monday. Kingsport Police Department Officer Gerald Ray said a Chevrolet Beretta was attempting to turn around on McConnell Lane, a dead-end street. The car reportedly struck a home, damaging a screen door and heat pump unit, before driving away.

The driver then piloted the car over the edge of a wooden retaining wall located behind an apartment complex beside the Highway Boutique.

Unable to drive any farther, and requiring a tow truck to remove the car, the woman was arrested at the scene.

Keila Gilbert, 36, is charged with driving under the influence and driving on a revoked license.

Immediately after the wreck, police were attempting to locate a second individual who was allegedly in the car but exited and ran away following the hit and run with the home on McConnell Lane. An investigation is continuing, with additional charges pending.

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Kingsport DUI suspect strikes home, drives car over embankment Published July 30th, 2012 4:14 pm

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Kingsport police have arrested a motorist who allegedly struck a home off of Lynn Garden Drive, then fled the scene and drove over a nearby retaining wall.

The incident began at approximately 3:30 Monday afternoon. Kingsport Police Officer Gerald Ray says a Chevrolet Beretta was attempting to turn around on McConnell Lane, a dead-end street. The car reportedly struck a home, damaging a screen door and heat pump unit, before driving away. The driver then piloted the car over the edge of a wooden retaining wall, located behind an apartment complex beside the Highway Boutique.

Unable to drive any further, and requiring a tow truck to remove the car, the woman was arrested at the scene. Keila Gilbert, 36, is charged with driving under the influence and driving on a revoked license.

Immediately after the wreck police were attempting to locate a second individual who was allegedly in the car, but exited and ran away following the hit and run with the home on McConnell Lane. An investigation is continuing with additional charges pending.

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With an agreement between the town and Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts in place, a retaining wall at the new school construction site wont be needed.

A temporary easement provides access to the site of the new middle and high school. Selectmen approved a license agreement Monday night that allows the town to work on a specific area of Wildlands Trust property in order to build the school and reslope a portion of the Wildlands Trust property.

Selectman Shawn Dahlen said the plan to cut down some trees, reslope part of the property and do some landscaping is the preferred alternative to building a retaining wall.

It will be a preferable long-term solution, he said.

According to School Building Committee Chairman Elizabeth Lewis, the site contractor has installed erosion control in the form of hay bales, silt fencing and construction fencing around the work areas.Work is underway to install temporary parking at the high school site along the front and west side of the property. Tree cutting is complete and gravel will be placed in these areas.

Behind Alden elementary, a portion of the fields area has been cleared and graveled to provide an area for the contractor trailers and parking, and an access road has been installed from Alden Street near the tennis courts to the contractors staging area. The existing paved roads behind the middle school have been reclaimed (removed and pulverized) for the contractor access roads.

Shortly, the storage shed and concessions buildings behind the middle school will be demolished. Work on the building pad will begin this week.The soil below the building foundations has to be removed and recompacted, which will take place over the course of the next month.

The official groundbreaking ceremony for the co-located middle and high school was held in June. The school is expected to be completed in two years and be ready for its first students in the fall of 2014.

The towns share of the $128 million model school building project is $77 million, with the Massachusetts School Building Authority contributing more than $51 million, or approximately 44 percent, of the cost.

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Vidya Kauri Jul 24, 2012 7:49 PM ET | Last Updated: Jul 25, 2012 2:35 AM ET

A man is dead and a police officer has suffered a broken leg after a chase resulted in both the man and the officer falling over a retaining wall into the Niagara Gorge.

Ontarios Special Investigations Unit released a statement saying a Niagara Regional Police Officer was chasing a man on River Rd. between Eastwood St. and Otter St. shortly after 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

A short time later, they both went over the gorge wall and into the Niagara gorge, said the statement.

Witnesses claim police were chasing a man when he jumped over a retaining wall.

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A police officer is transported from the scene Tuesday evening.

The SIU is a provincial arms-length agency that investigates incidents of death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault involving police. They have assigned seven investigators and two forensic investigators to probe the circumstances of the incident.

The male police officer was rescued in a bucket that was lowered into the gorge he is said to be in serious condition. The SIU statement said the officer sustained a broken femur.

The officer was transported by air ambulance to Hamilton General Hospital, the nearest trauma centre. Jennifer Tracey, spokeswoman for ORNGE, said he was first taken by land ambulance to a local park nearby where the air ambulance had landed. She said the ride to the hospital is about 10 to 15 minutes. The helicopter left the scene at about 7:50 p.m.

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Fire crews were called to the scene after two people tumbled into Niagara Gorge. (Niagara Regional Police Service)

Ontarios police watchdog is investigating the death of a man in Niagara Falls, Ont., after the man and a police officer went over a retaining wall and into the Niagara Gorge.

The Special Investigations Unit says that shortly after 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday a Niagara Regional Police officer was chasing a man on River Road, between Otter and Eastwood streets, roughly three kilometres from the falls.

Shortly afterward, both people went over a wall and into the Niagara Gorge. Television reports said rescue crews used a hard-framed basket attached to a fire truck boom to reach the victims.

The man died, and police say the injured Niagara Regional Police officer was airlifted to a hospital in Hamilton with a broken leg.

The SIU, which investigates police incidents involving death, serious injury or sexual assault, has assigned seven investigators and two forensic investigators to the case.

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A crumbling retaining wall on Lake Avenue will soon come down.

We have to take the old wall out and put the new one in without any homes sliding into the road, Grand Haven Project Manager Julie Beaton said.

Wade-Trim, a Grand Rapids-based engineering firm, was recently selected by Grand Haven officials to begin making plans for the walls replacement.

The scope of the approximately $53,000 project includes replacing the wall, and an assessment of sightlines and stopping distances to determine if conditions for vehicle and pedestrian traffic may be improved especially near the intersection of Edwards and Lake avenues.

Were going to have the engineers look and see if they can modify the wall to provide a safe pedestrian crossing, Beaton said. Were going to improve the sightlines as best as were able to.

Beaton said the hazards include a narrow road width and the distraction drivers face as they see Lake Michigan while rounding Lake Avenue toward Harbor Drive.

For the most part, people are going slow because it is so narrow, she said.

City Manager Pat McGinnis said is also hopeful that the area could be made more pedestrian-friendly.

We need to do that in an open public setting so that everyone knows what were talking about, he said.

To keep the public informed, meetings with City Council and the public to review the recommended design with an emphasis on changes in the retaining wall, street and sidewalk configurations, and the projected construction schedule and detour routes will be planned.

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KUANTAN: The Kuantan Municipal Council (MPK) will have to look for alternative sources of funding to build more retaining walls along Sungai Galing.

Councillor Andy Chiew said he had been informed by the state Irrigation and Drainage Department (JPS) that it did not have the allocation to build additional walls to stop erosion by the river bank.

We have received numerous complaints from the public who are quite upset with the state of the river bank. Unfortunately, the department is short of funds to continue building morewalls. Therefore, we will try to come up with the allocation through otherchannels, he said after inspecting a completed retention wall near Jalan Selamat here recently.

Chiew added that the problem would hopefully be settled by this year.

Also present were his fellow councillors Ngoh Tian Meng, Choo Kay Boon, Tan Kee Sung and Pang Ching Chay.

The MPK officials later inspected the overgrown under brush in the drains at Lorong Tok Sira 70 and Lorong Air Putih 115.

Ngoh said JPS had been given a month to clear up the undergrowth in both areas.

Trimming the bushes will be a temporary measure while we work out a budget to put in U-drains, he said.

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8:23 a.m. PDT, July 19, 2012

SAN DIEGO -- A driver died Thursday after crashing an SUV into a retaining wall in Sorrento Valley, police said.

The fatality on Sorrento Valley Boulevard near Roselle Street happened shortly after 4:30 a.m., according to San Diego police Officer Erik Pollock.

A police officer on patrol witnessed crash. The driver, who was the only person in the SUV, was speeding down Roselle Street and went straight into the retaining wall without breaking or attempting to turn, the officer said.

"At this point, we don't know what happened," San Diego police Sgt. Art Doherty said. "There was no reason why that vehicle should not have negotiated that turn. But instead, he just continued straight forward at a very high speed and struck the wall center mass, so basically the front end is sitting right in the front seat of the vehicle."

The driver, who was not immediately identified, was appeared to be between 25 and 30 years old, investigators said.

Sorrento Valley Boulevard was during the investigation and cleanup. Police reopened the road shortly after 7:30 a.m.

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