Automobile Accidents

• Toddler Killed in Driveway Accident

  Chrissie Cole | September 10, 2007 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A driveway accident tragically claimed the life of a 14-month-old child this morning, when the father ran him over outside their home in North Hollywood, according to authorities.The toddler was transported to the hospital where he died shortly after. The accident occurred at 7:20 a.m. this morning, according to a Los Angeles Police Officer.The man, whose name has not been released, was backing...

• Pedestrian Struck by San Francisco Municipal Railway Bus

  Chrissie Cole | August 20, 2007 10:24 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A 40-year-old woman is in the hospital following a pedestrian accident this morning, when she was struck by a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus at 7:15 a.m., according to police.The accident happened at 22nd Avenue and California Street, California Highway Patrol said.Police report the woman was transported to San Francisco General Hospital. Her current condition and the extent of injuries she...

• Driver Killed in Fiery Carquinez Bridge Crash

  Chrissie Cole | July 02, 2007 9:35 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A motorist was killed in a fatal car accident, Monday, at 4:36 p.m. on the Carquinez Bridge, when the car became engulfed in flames, California Highway Patrol said.A Ford Crown Victoria traveling westbound on Interstate 80, swerved from the far left lane to the right shoulder, when witnesses noticed the car was smoking from the rear wheels. The car crashied into the right-side guardrail twice...

• Pedestrian Killed by Pregnant Drunk Driver

  Christina Cole | May 16, 2007 9:12 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A woman lost her life in a pedestrian accident on Highway 9, Monday, when an intoxicated pregnant woman drove off the side of the rode, striking her with her vehicle, reports California Highway Patrol.California Highway Patrol was trying to piece together the chain of events that led up to the fatal accident.Fire Rescue was first on the scene where they discovered the driver had run her pickup...

• Las Vegas police to pay record $1.48 million to settle lawsuit

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:56 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  Police covering for their own.Las Vegas Police have agreed to pay a record $1.48 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused officers of giving special treatment to an officer's wife after she was involved in a fatal bicycle accident 13 years ago, according to an Associated Press news report published in the Las Vegas Review Journal.The driver, Janet Wagner, wife of Police Officer David...

• Government to mandate anti-rollover technology

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:44 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The federal government plans to issue requirements next month that new vehicles include anti-rollover technology, officials said Thursday, according to a news report in the Los Angeles Times Friday. Nicole Nason, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told a congressional budget panel that electronic stability control technology would be mandated on all new...

• Drunk driving leads to murder charge

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 10:34 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Escondido man faces 15 years to life if convicted.The man who was allegedly responsible for the motor vehicle accident death of a Solana Beach women and then left her in the street to die, is now being charged with murder.Brian Stephen Carnes, 41, of Escondido, had a murder count added to the charges of hit and run causing death, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving on a...

• 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...

• 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...