Automobile Accidents

• 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...

• Honda Recalling 45,335 Civic Hybrid Sedans

  Christina Cole | February 27, 2007 6:36 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Global Recall of Civic Hybrid Sedans45,335 Civic Hybrid Sedans world wide are being recalled by Honda Motor Co. to repair an electrical auto defect that can stop the car engine, reports Wall Street Journal online.Honda is planning a recall of 7,219 vehicles in Japan and 38,116 others that were sold overseas with many of them being sold in the U.S.In documents filed with the Ministry of Land,...

• Fatal Auto Accident Claims The Life of a Laguna Hills Man

  IB Contributor | February 26, 2007 7:20 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Hit-and-run driver sought and another driver arrest for DUI after fatal auto collision.A three-car accident that closed portions of the southbound Interstate 405 (San Diego) Freeway for nearly five hours early Friday morning claimed the life of a 24-year old Laguna Hills man according to a story in the Orange County Register.Christopher Laurent was returning to Orange County from Sherman Oaks...

• Man Receives Maximum in Hit-and-Run

  Christina Cole | February 25, 2007 5:21 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Judge Sentences Man to Maximum in Hit-and-Run Case.A judge has sentenced a homeless man to four years prison time for fleeing the scene of a car accident that has left two Orange County women permanently disabled. The judge issued the maximum sentence despite both women's pleas for leniency.Both women, through their attorney, say they forgive Bradshaw for the accident and also noted his decision...

• Auto Accident Closes San Diego Freeway Lanes

  IB Contributor | February 24, 2007 7:06 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Two people injured in overturned automobile accident.An auto accident involving a pair of overturned vehicles blocked portions of southbound Interstate 5 (San Diego) Freeway just before 6:00 a.m. in San Clemente yesterday, north of the Calafia exit, according to the Orange County Register.According to the California Highway Patrol passengers were trapped inside one of the overturned vehicles. ...

• Tram Accident At Disneyland

  IB Contributor | February 24, 2007 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Two park patrons hospitalized after fall.Two people were injured and taken to Anaheim area hospitals after falling off the slow moving tram in the Disneyland parking lot yesterday at approximately 10:30 p.m. according to an article in today's Orange County Register.The tram was moving at about five miles per hour at the time of the incident according to Bob Tucker, a Disney spokesman. He did...