Automobile Accidents

• Ford Fatal Fire Case Settled

  IB Contributor | March 06, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Ford denies fault, settles anyway.An Iowa man whose wife died in a fire he said was caused by a Ford pickup truck, has settled a lawsuit with the auto manufacturer, according to an Associated Press news report posted on the Business Week Web site..The 78-year-old Earl Mohlis' wife, Darletta, died May 2, 2005, after a fire spread from their attached garage to their home.Mohlis and his three grown...

• Bus Plunges Off Overpass

  IB Contributor | March 03, 2007 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Four college students and two others die in bus accident.A chartered bus carrying a college baseball team flipped over the concrete railing of a Georgia interstate overpass early Friday morning and dropped 24 feet to the highway below killing six people and injury 29 others, according to a story in the Orange County Register.The baseball team from Bluffton University in Ohio was traveling to ...

• DUI Accident Involves Driver Previously Convicted of DUI

  IB Contributor | March 03, 2007 8:13 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Witnesses are being asked to come forward..The two-vehicle auto accident in Tustin that left a 7-year-old boy in critical condition and his father and brother injured on Wednesday involved a driver that previously plead guilty to a driving under the influence charge.That same driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after Wednesday's accident.The suspected DUI driver, ...

• Pomona Police Seek Witnesses To Deadly Auto Accident

  IB Contributor | March 02, 2007 6:12 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Teenager dies. Irvine man hospitalized.A two-vehicle auto accident at Arrow Highway and Fulton Road at about 10 p.m. on Thursday night, claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy and sent the passengers of the other vehicle to the hospital according to the Pomona Police Department, as reported by the Orange County Register. The condition of the two injured men was not known. The deceased boy's...

• Tustin Boy Critically Injured in Car Crash

  Christina Cole | March 01, 2007 11:22 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Man Arrested on Suspicion of DUI after Broadsiding a SedanA two-vehicle car accident, Wednesday, has left a seven year old boy in critical condition. The car he was traveling in was hit by a pickup truck. The driver was later arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence.The Father of the boy, and his other son were also transported to the hospital for moderate injuries. A 2000...

• Automotive Child Safety Regulations Proposed

  IB Contributor | March 01, 2007 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Bill addresses a continuing source of child deaths and injuries.Lawmakers and safety advocates in Washington called for new safety upgrades Tuesday that would require rear view cameras for drivers and power windows that automatically reverse as a way to protect young children around vehicles.According to an Associated Press news report posted on the Kansas City Star's Web site, Senator Hillary...

• Another SUV Rollover Fatal Auto Accident

  IB Contributor | February 28, 2007 1:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Driver overcorrection dooms SUV to rolling over.A Toyota 4-Runner overturned in a single vehicle SUV accident causing the death of driver and injuries to three others late Monday night in an area just north of the Dallas Fort Worth airport. Of the three injured passengers, two were taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and the other was treated and released at the scene. This is...

• Lawmakers Attempt To Curb Kids ATV Use

  IB Contributor | February 28, 2007 12:45 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Shouldn't an operators permit or driver's license be required?Legislators in Oregon are considering a new bill in that state's Senate that would ban children under 12 from riding all terrain vehicles and limit 12- to 15-year-olds to riding ATVs with smaller engines, according to a news report in the International Business Times.ATV enthusiasts are of course, against this bill saying that Oregon...

• Alcohol Involved Fatal Head-On Freeway Collision

  IB Contributor | February 27, 2007 8:41 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Wrong way driver dies in Highway 99 auto acciident.A pickup, headed the wrong way on Highway 99 near Atwater, collided head-on into another vehicle before it was hit by a third vehicle. The driver of the pickup, Octavio Garcia Sereno, 34, of Atwater, died in the Saturday night automobile accident. The investigating officers said that Sereno was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the...

• Distraction Causes Driver's Death?

  IB Contributor | February 27, 2007 8:01 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Did computer use while driving cause fatal auto accident?California Highway Patrol officers found a computer plugged in and still running, even though the screen was shattered, in an auto accident Monday, after they discovered the 28 year-old driver dead. It appeared to the officers that the Chico, California computer tutor had been using his computer when his car crossed into oncoming traffic...