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A dump truck filled with sand made an evasive maneuver to avoid a car that had pulled onto the road. The dump truck swerved and toppled over, landing on an SUV traveling next to the truck. The SUV filled with sand, and the unidentified driver of the SUV died in the Cherry Hill dump truck accident.

Police are still investigating the incident and it’s unclear who is responsible, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.

So far, 2012 is turning out to be the year of the Philadelphia hit and run. Earlier this week, we wrote about a hit and run on New Year’s Eve where a party-goer struck another set of party goers in Folcroft sending a man to the hospital with serious injuries.

Now, in even more tragic news, we’re writing about a triple hit and run that killed a disabled women in a wheelchair. So what exactly is a triple hit and run?

After a night out with friends on New Year’s Eve, John McManus was struck by a motorist and seriously injured as he helped a friend into his car. The driver who struck McManus never stopped, and McManus’ friends only caught the first two letters of the driver’s license plate.

But only a few days after the New Year’s Eve hit and run, police say they made an arrest of a suspect, 24-year-old Matthew Cooper, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.

We’ve all been there before. When you head out on the road for the first time, and experience a driving situation you’re not quite sure how to handle, then prayer becomes part of your defensive driving technique. Safe driving is not something anyone is born with, and learning how to drive often involves trial and error and the amount of time you spend on the road.

Recognizing the danger of new drivers, Pennsylvania lawmakers passed new teen driver laws going into effect this Saturday that hopes to take prayer out of the equation when it comes to safe teen driving.

Last year, SEPTA paid out $40 million in personal injury claims. Wanting to take advantage of the Philadelphia bus and train system, con artists have engaged in SEPTA injury fraud where they fake injuries in hopes of getting a piece of the pie.

Now SEPTA has joined forces with the District Attorney's office to stop these fraudulent claims.

This Philadelphia hit-and-run ended with a woman jumping over a bridge to evade capture and having to be airlifted to safety and hospitalized with injuries.

An unidentified woman driver struck another car on Presidential Boulevard, reports the Philadelphia Daily News. Instead of stopping and taking the proper steps following an accident, like exchanging insurance information, the woman took off.

The Paul Holmgren bike accident details remain unclear. However, the 55-year-old Philadelphia Flyers general manager is listed in stable condition at Cooper Medical Center.

On Monday night, Holmgren was reportedly riding his bike in Avalon, New Jersey, on the Jersey shore. The details after that become unclear, but Holmgren was apparently involved in a serious bike accident that resulted in multiple fractures and cuts that required stitches, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.

This week a New Jersey woman was charged with a fatal hit and run of a pedestrian on Route 70. Police were led to the woman days after the crash thanks to a tip. Now the woman has been arrested and faces stiff penalties for fleeing the scene of the accident.

Hitting a person or car while driving is probably not something you’ve thought about or prepared for. But as your first instinct may be to get away, there are things you should know for what to do following a Philadelphia car accident.

A woman struck a stopped police car. The police officer was seriously injured. Then the woman's employer had to cough up over one million dollars for employer vicarious liability.

Officer Kenneth McMillian was on a routine patrol visiting a recently robbed bank, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. With his dome lights flashing, McMillian stopped at a red light. A few moments later, Jane Golden rear-ended his patrol car.

A Greyhound bus accident just outside Lancaster resulted in the injuries to 14 passengers. The Pennsylvania bus accident occurred on a bus from New York City to St. Louis, reports the Associated Press.

The accident occurred shortly after the bus stopped in Philadelphia and was reportedly being driven by a Philadelphia bus driver, Kareem Edward Farmer.

Farmer lost control of the bus while traveling down the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the AP reports. Farmer apparently struck a concrete barrier and swerved across lanes before hitting an embankment and flipping over. 29 people were aboard the bus, and 14 were hospitalized. It has not been determined why Farmer lost control of the bus, but his father said that it was Farmer's first accident in the eight months he's been on the job.