Automobile Accidents

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...