Automobile Accidents

• Street-racing crash in Yorba Linda kills 68-year-old woman

  IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 10:17 PM | 4 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A 68-year-old Orange County woman was fatally injured in an auto accident Sunday when she attempted to make a left turn from a residential neighborhood, The Orange County Register reported Monday. Police officials suspect that street racing may have caused the crash.Witnesses told Brea Police officials that two cars were seen speeding side-by-side, southbound down the hillside street of Fairmont...

• Faulty Ford spark plug causes fires.

  IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 12:23 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Federal agency says it's not bothered by it.Defective Ford truck spark plugs are costing car owners more than time and money, according to a very interesting article posted on www.consumeraffairs.com.The article by Joe Benton, posted Sunday, says thousands of truck owners have paid thousands of dollars to repair the damage caused by the Ford Triton V-8 engine spitting a spark plug from its...

• Garden Grove man dies in rollover accident

  IB Contributor | March 25, 2007 3:47 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A 37-year-old Garden Grove man died in a surface street two-car auto accident this morning in Santa Ana, California, according to a report by CBS News.A Ford F-150 pickup truck, driven by Juan Uriostegui of Garden Grove, was traveling westbound on First Street when it collided with a Mitusbishi Eclipse traveling southbound on Euclid about 1:30 a.m., Sgt. Pete Bollinger of the Santa Ana Police...

• Judge Orders New Trial in Ford Lawsuit

  IB Contributor | March 24, 2007 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A U.S. federal judge has thrown out a $15 million jury verdict and ordered a new trial for a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. by a Tulsa couple whose 18-year-old son died in a rollover auto accident in November 2003, according to a news report by the Associated Press published in the Chicago Tribune.Tyler Moody lost control of a 1995 Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle while he was passing another...

• Tailpipe fires in 2008 Ford trucks spur recall

  IB Contributor | March 22, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Ford Motor Co. has ordered dealers to stop selling the new 2008 Super Duty pickup trucks with the 6.4-liter diesel engine and is recalling more than 37,000 of those vehicles after tailpipe fires were reported in the diesel version of the pickups, according to an article posted on consumeraffairs.com.Company officials say they have received three reports of flames shooting out of tailpipes after...

• Ford Recalls 2008 Trucks

  Christina Cole | March 22, 2007 10:33 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Ford halts sales of Big Super DutyFord Motor Company is ordering dealers to stop the selling of the new Super Duty pickup with the 6.4-liter diesel engine, until further notice. The Ford recall involves over 37,999 of the 2008 F-Series trucks after receiving reports about tailpipe fires in the diesel version of this truck.According to a Ford spokesman, Ford has received three reports of flames...

• Teen charged with vehicular homicide

  IB Contributor | March 22, 2007 12:43 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Street racing turns into fatal car accident.A Washington teenager, has been charged with vehicular homicide and felony hit-and-run due to a fatal auto accident early last month, according to a story in the Bellingham Herald. It was at least the third fatal auto accident in Bellingham in the last twelve months involving teen drivers and high speeds.The 17-year-old teenager was driving an Acura...

• Car seat tests confirmed flawed

  IB Contributor | March 22, 2007 12:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Consumer Reports magazine announced Wednesday that its botched investigation into infant car seats was the result of a major misunderstanding between the magazine and the laboratory that conducted the tests.The complete report of the magazine's investigation into the matter may be read on the magazine's Web site.Test findings released in January said that most brands of infant car seats "failed...

• Speeding and alcohol takes another young life in Orange County

  IB Contributor | March 21, 2007 12:49 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  Speeding and alcohol may have left an 18-year-old Buena Park man dead and a teenage passenger hurt this morning in a single-vehicle auto accident near Merten Avenue and Moody Street, the Orange County Register reported on today.According to the article, Philip Na was driving a Toyota Camry about 1:40 a.m. Wednesday when it careened off the road and hit a light pole, police officials said.Na died...

• Husband of woman crushed by bus filed $100-million lawsuit

  IB Contributor | March 20, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Public transportation bus accident kills two women.The husband of an Virginia woman who was struck and killed by a Metrobus in downtown Washington D.C. last month filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court Monday, seeking $100 million in damages from the transit agency, according to an article in the Washington Post.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, was brought by...