Road Crashes Kill 12 Across Bangladesh, California

Several fatal road crashes were reported in Bangladesh and Northern California. In Bangladesh, separate crashes in Jamalpur, Lalmonirhat and Narail killed four women and a 14-year-old boy, while another teenager was seriously injured. In California, a Sept. 27 collision on Highway 160 near Antioch killed a 21-year-old Sacramento woman and seriously injured two people in an opposing pickup. A Sept. 25 head-on crash on Dersch Road near Redding killed a Nissan driver and injured two others; the pickup driver was arrested as investigators examined how his vehicle crossed into the opposing lane. A Sept. 19 head-on collision on Highway 299 west of Redding killed five people and seriously injured another. Separately, a multi-vehicle crash involving a semi-truck and three other vehicles disrupted westbound Highway 50 in Sacramento on Sept. 28; injuries and the cause had not been confirmed.