Automobile Accidents

• A "dangerous" California Highway

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:18 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The death of Gillian Cichowski-a teacher; an active community leader; and, mother of two children, who died in February of 1992, while attempting to make a left hand turn on Route 17 prompted the California Senate to pass a resolution naming a bridge over Route 17 the 'Gillian Cichowski Memorial Overcrossing Bridge', and her death gave impetus to the building of the overpass that replaced the...

• "RoccerMom" sentenced in deadly DUI crash

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:01 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A woman who killed her daughter's 16-year-old friend in a crash while driving home drunk from a nightclub was sentenced Friday to at least 16 months in prison, according to an Associated Press new report posted on the Boston Globe's Web site.Ann Marie Ciarcia, 47, who called herself "RoccerMom" and listed nightclubbing as an interest on a MySpace Web page, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter,...

• Two die in three-car crash

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:01 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  As the song goes, 'it never rains in California', but that wasn't the case this last week when a Lake Elsinore couple died in an auto accident after the driver attempted to enter a rain-soaked, and slippery, northbound lane of the I-5 San Diego Freeway last week. A commercial truck broadsided Domingo Chavez, 38, and his wife Martha, 45, after their car was left perpendicular to freeway lanes,...

• Drunk driving leads to murder charge

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 10:34 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Escondido man faces 15 years to life if convicted.The man who was allegedly responsible for the motor vehicle accident death of a Solana Beach women and then left her in the street to die, is now being charged with murder.Brian Stephen Carnes, 41, of Escondido, had a murder count added to the charges of hit and run causing death, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving on a...

• DUI driver convicted of murder

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 10:30 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Possible sentence is five to 99 years in prison.A repeat drunken driver was found guilty of murder Thursday in the death of a Houston women in a fatal automobile accident last year in Clute, Texas. The sentencing phase of the trial began yesterday in the Brazoria County Courthouse.According to "TheFacts.com":Elden Lee Carter, 33, was on probation for his third drunken driving conviction May 16,...

• ATV crash kills teenager

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 8:47 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  An 18-year-old man died earlier this month in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Conoy Township in rural Pennsylvania, according to a news report posted on LancasterOnLine.The man, whom police did not identify, was a passenger on the back of a Honda ATV driven by his 18-year-old male friend prior to the accident, according to police officials. The driver was seriously injured in the crash,...

• Mother files lawsuit over faulty SUV tire that caused fatal crash

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The mother of Palm Beach Central High School student last week filed suit against Ford Motor Co., Continental Tire North America and Wayne Akers Ford stemming from a Columbia County rollover automobile accident last summer that killed her 17-year-old, according to a news report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.Brianna Cox and her family were traveling south on Interstate 75 on July 16, heading...

• Ex-reality-TV star arrested on suspicion of DUI

  IB Contributor | March 28, 2007 10:22 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Jessica Smith, a former star of the MTV reality television show "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County," was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after an auto accident on the northbound San Diego (I-5) Freeway on Monday, according to a news report in The Orange County Register.Smith, 19, of Laguna Beach, crashed a 1999 Volkswagen Beetle into the back of...

• Another street racing death?

  IB Contributor | March 27, 2007 11:03 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The drivers of two vehicles that appeared to be racing are apparently responsible for the death of one man and injuries to four other people in a multi-vehicle auto accident in downtown Los Angeles yesterday according to police. The driver of an involved passenger car died at the scene when his vehicle was struck by a SUV, according to Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department's...

• Woman Dragged on Hood in Hit-and-Run Accident

  Christina Cole | March 26, 2007 11:55 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Hit-and-Run driver doesn't stop as he hits woman, dragging her a block.A woman was killed by a hit-and-run motorist as she was pushing a cart across the street in Avalon Gardens of South Los Angeles.The accident occurred on Saturday at 7:30pm near Avalon Boulevard. The car was gray, either a Toyota Corolla, Camry or Tercel with a black hood.The woman was caught on the roof of the car and dragged...