Automobile Accidents

• Cars Against Drunk Driving

  IB Contributor | March 14, 2007 10:35 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  New technologies designed to save lives.According to a recent Health & Science report, Toyota Motor Corporation is in development of a car that will detect signs of drunk drivers before they get on the road with the rest of us. This type technology should be a prerequisite for the return of a driver's license to anyone convicted of driving under the influence. How many lives would be saved by...

• Vacuum Truck Driver Killed in Explosion

  Christina Cole | March 13, 2007 8:32 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Man Killed in a deadly oil field explosion.A man is dead after the vacuum truck he was driving hit an oil well triggering a horrendous explosion, this morning.He was found dead two hours after the fire was reported, according to Fire Department officials. At first, officials were under the assumption that it was a natural gas fire with no injuries. Fire Rescue had to stay a good distance away...

• Six-year-old Hero Rescues Sisters in Rollover Accident

  IB Contributor | March 13, 2007 9:22 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Victim attributes seat belts and infant car seats to saving family's lives.Last Monday morning, Patrick Bishop, a six-year-old, rescued his ten-month-old sister, Taylor, from her car seat, through a broken out window and pulled his two-year-old sister, Megan, through another broken window of their rolled over vehicle, while their mother, Kaci Harrison was trapped inside according to a KHAS-TV...

• Second Fatal Street Racing Accident In A Month

  IB Contributor | March 12, 2007 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Another teenage street racing death.Two illegally street racing vehicles collided last Friday night about 9:15 p.m. killing an 18-year-old Fontana woman passenger, according to Fontana police as reported by the Press Enterprise.Monica Molina was a passenger in a Nissan being driven by Juan Barajas, 19. Barajas was racing Jose Alcantar, 23 who was driving a black Ford. The were racing westbound...

• Ford Recalls 109,664 Police Cars

  IB Contributor | March 12, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  2003-2005 Crown Victoria Interceptors Recalled.Ford Motor Company has announced a voluntary recall of 2003-2005 Crown Victoria Interceptor police cruisers built between, October 10, 2001 and December 8, 2004, at an assembly plant in St. Thomas, Ontario due to a wheel defect in the automobile's steel wheels according to various news sources.The defective wheels of the Interceptors have been found...

• Defective Cruise Control Subject Of Recall

  IB Contributor | March 11, 2007 10:10 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Ford recalls more pickup trucks and SUVs. Ford Motor Co. recalled about 155,000 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles last week to repair a defective cruise control switch system that already had led to millions of recalls, according to an Associated Press news report posted on CBS news' Web site.This announcement came on the same day that the Associated Press reported that the auto maker had...

• 4-Car Crash Shuts Down San Diego Freeway

  Christina Cole | March 09, 2007 6:33 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Two injured in accident that blocks lanes for 20 minutes.The northbound lanes of the San Diego (I-5) Freeway were closed for twenty minutes after a multi-vehicle accident that left one vehicle overturned and another engulfed in flames.The four-car crash that happened at 12:49, blocked off lanes next to Crown Valley Parkway while the Orange County Fire Authority and California Highway Patrol...

• 1,500 Lives Lost To Fatigued Driver Auto Accidents

  IB Contributor | March 09, 2007 12:04 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  70,000 auto accident injuries attributed to sleepy drivers annually.Ken Gonyea had been an accident investigations detective for the Long Beach Police Department for over ten years, but even that couldn't prepare him for the accident that took the lives of his father, stepmother and sister-in-law several years ago in Riverside County . Gonyea was devastated, "My parents were just driving down...

• Ford Recall to Fix Fire Hazard

  Christina Cole | March 07, 2007 10:19 AM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  Ford recalling 155,000 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.Ford Motor Company is recalling 155,000 sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks which includes the following models: 2003 F-150, F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 Super Duty truck, the Ford Excursion SUV and the Lincoln Blackwood pickup.The recall involves a defective cruise control switch that is potentially causing fires in older...

• NHTSA Holds Public Hearing On Five-Star Rating

  IB Contributor | March 07, 2007 12:49 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  What about competitive testing? Only the truly best get a 5-Star rating. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has been rating cars and trucks on how they perform in crash tests for 30 years, is considering overhauling the tests just as the ratings will become more obvious to consumers, according to an article published Wednesday in USA Today. NHTSA gives vehicles one to...