Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• California Freeway Fatalities

  IB Contributor | July 06, 2007 11:14 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Since 1968, California has had only three days without a freeway traffic fatality on its freeways. There have only been three fatal-crash-free days on California freeways since 1968. Thirty-nine years and only three fatality accident free days.The last time California saw a "fatal free day" was Sept. 12, 2000.Since statistics have been kept, the state has never gotten through a major holiday...

• Driver Killed in Fiery Carquinez Bridge Crash

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

  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...

• Backover Deaths Can Be Prevented

  IB Contributor | June 26, 2007 8:49 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  One hundred children die in "backover" accidents each year.Every week, at least two children are killed and 50 more are injured in automobile "backover" accidents. Unfortunately, rear cameras and audible warning sensors that could help prevent such tragedies are not standard or considered "must have", safety equipment by auto manufacturers. And, while such safety equipment is offered as an...

• Passenger Killed in Car Wreck

  Chrissie Cole | June 26, 2007 12:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two people were seriously injured and one person was killed in a car accident on Interstate 505, south of County Road 27, at 6 am., Sunday morning.Quan, 45, of Oakland was in the rear passenger seat when the vehicle crashed into a tree on the north side of the roadway. He was pronounced dead at the scene from blunt force trauma.The accident occurred when the driver, 47, also of Oakland, veered...

• One Killed, Six Injured in Car Crash

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

  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...

• CHP Offier Killed in Car Accident

  Christina Cole | June 10, 2007 8:07 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A California Highway Patrol Officer (CHP) was killed ina tragic car accident, Sunday, when his patrol car veered off the side of the road and crashed.The single vehicle crash happened at approximately 9 a.m. on Interstate 8, according to CHP officials.The officer, of Winterhaven's CHP Office, was traveling eastbound in the right lane when his tired blew out on the left side of his car. The...

• Three Killed in Tragic Car Accident after Crashing into Light Pole

  Christina Cole | June 04, 2007 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Three men, in their 20s, were killed in a tragic car accident when their Lincoln Town Car rear-ended a vehicle, bounced off another and crashed into a light pole. A fourth passenger was hospitalized, police said.One of the victims was decapitated in the accident that occurred on Victoria Street near Canyon Drive at 8:45 p.m. Two of the men were thrown from the vehicle and killed, as was a...

• Two Killed in Firery Crash, One in Critical Condition

  Christina Cole | May 21, 2007 1:36 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two people were killed and one seriously injured in a four-car accident, Monday, on Pacific Coast Highway at 6:30 p.m., police said.A Honda was speeding when the driver lost control of the vehicle on Anderson Street, striking three other vehicles. The Honda swerved to the side into oncoming traffic where it was hit by a Ford Expedition, which split the car in half.The front half of the car...

• Gridley Woman Killed in Car Crash

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

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...