Automobile Accidents

• Rollover Accidents and Seat Belts

  IB Contributor | July 12, 2007 8:54 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Here are two news stories of today showing us why we all must wear seat belts and why children must be properly restrained in car seats, when riding in automobiles and the consequeces of our choices. There are more than 10,000 automobile rollover accident deaths a year in the U.S. The majority of those people would be alive today if they had been wearing seat belts or were otherwise properly...

• Girl, 11, Charged with DUI

  Chrissie Cole | July 06, 2007 11:59 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  After chasing a vehicle over eight miles, at speeds up to 100 mph, police discovered the unruly driver was drunk.But, what Police were not expecting when they looked inside the flipped vehicle, guns drawn - was that the driver was an 11-year-old girl.The girl is now being charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless endangerment, speeding and leaving the scene of a car accident....

• Jeep Wrangler, Dodge Nitro Recall

  Chrissie Cole | July 04, 2007 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Daimler Chrysler is recalling 80,894 -- 2007 Jeep Wranglers and Dodge Nitro vehicles to reprogram an automotive defect in the power module, after receiving multiple consumer complaints about power loss to the engine.The recall was announced following an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in May, after they received complaints of engine stalls on 2007 Jeep...

• One Killed, Six Injured in Car Crash

  Chrissie Cole | June 22, 2007 10:15 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  One woman was killed and six others were transported to the hospital with serious injuries after a single car accident on the Interstate.The accident happened, Friday at 4:30 p.m., when the driver of a mini van traveling south on Interstate 5, lost control of the vehicle while traveling 70 to 80 miles per hour and hit the center divider. The van rolled over, ejecting six passengers.Two off duty...

• Driver Hits Pedestrian, Killing Him

  Christina Cole | June 15, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  While in the parking lot of a medical clinic this morning, a 92-year-old driver hit the gas instead of the brake, causing his vehicle to crash into a wall, a curb, two parked cars and a 62-year-old pedestrian, killing him, authorities said.The series of crashes leading up to the pedestrian accident started at approximately 8:50 a.m. on Friday, beside a Kaiser Permanete Clinic located on Avocado...

• Woman,80, Killed by Two Cars

  Christina Cole | May 30, 2007 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  An 80-year-old woman lost her life in a pedestrian accident on Friday, at 8:15 p.m., after she was stuck by two cars, authorities said.The woman was struck by a northbound vehicle as she was crossing the street near the intersection of Brookhurst and Meridith Drive, said Hunting Beach Police.The impact caused the pedestrian to fall to the ground where she was then struck by another vehicle. Upon...

• Gridley Woman Killed in Car Crash

  Christina Cole | April 24, 2007 5:32 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A woman was killed, on Sunday, in a fatal car accident when her vehicle went through an iron gate and overturned.The woman, 70, was driving her Toyota eastbound at 12:45pm on Railroad Avenue when she failed to stop at a stop sign, according to California Highway Patrol.After failing to stop, she went through the intersection, crashing through an iron gate and overturning. Her vehicle landed in...

• 7 People Killed in 5 Accidents

  Christina Cole | April 17, 2007 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Seven people lost their lives on Sunday, in five car accidents from Los Angeles to Orange County to Riverside County. The first accident happened at 1am when a man, driving eastbound on Jefferson Boulevard in Los Angeles, was hit by an oncoming car as he made a left turn in its path, Los Angeles Police said. He was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. His name has not been...

• Car Crash Takes out Power Pole

  Christina Cole | April 02, 2007 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A Volvo involved in a car accident crashed into a power pole near Bent Tree Lane and Lower Lake Drive potentially leaving over one hundred people without electricity.The crash that occurred at 4pm, cracked the power pole in half, dumpling live wires onto the car while knocking out the power to approximately 700 Southern California Edison customers, confirms a Edison spokesman.As of 9:30pm...

• Two die in three-car crash

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:01 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  As the song goes, 'it never rains in California', but that wasn't the case this last week when a Lake Elsinore couple died in an auto accident after the driver attempted to enter a rain-soaked, and slippery, northbound lane of the I-5 San Diego Freeway last week. A commercial truck broadsided Domingo Chavez, 38, and his wife Martha, 45, after their car was left perpendicular to freeway lanes,...