Posts tagged Motor Vehicle Accidents

• UC Riverside Student Dies in Auto Accident

  IB Contributor | March 18, 2007 12:10 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Racing drivers charged with felonies.A 21-year-old UC Riverside student from Orange was killed early Friday morning in a auto accident on the eastbound 60 (Pomona) Freeway in Riverside, according to authorities, as reported in the Orange County Register.A BMW Z4 and a Toyota Celica were racing at about 100 mph when the driver of the Toyota veered onto the right shoulder, where it struck a metal...

• Greyhound settles wrongful death claims

  IB Contributor | March 18, 2007 12:02 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Confidential settlement admits no fault.The families of the two passengers killed when a Greyhound bus crashed in Santa Maria on Highway 101 have settled their wrongful death lawsuits against the bus company in separate private mediations with trial dates pending. The terms of each settlement are confidential and not disclosed. However, Greyhound admitted no fault and the settlements included...

• Hit-and-run bicycle vs auto fatality

  IB Contributor | March 17, 2007 9:33 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Here is another story of a hit-and-run driver killing someone. This time the fatal bicycle accident was in Solana Beach, San Diego County, California, as reported by the North County Times.SOLANA BEACH ---- A woman on a bicycle was fatally struck by a motorist who then fled the scene on Highway 101 Friday, authorities said. The driver was later found and taken into custody in Escondido, a...

• Two wrecks on the 5 Freeway leave one dead

  IB Contributor | March 16, 2007 6:11 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Lagnua Niguel man charged with vehicular manslaughter.Two Orange County auto accidents, occurring nearly simultaneously about 11:15 p.m. Thursday, left one woman dead and four others injured - two critically - on the southbound San Diego (I-5) Freeway near the Alicia Parkway exit., the Orange County Register reported Friday.The collisions, which the CHP is treating as unrelated, also led to the...

• Yankees' pitcher sued over auto accident.

  IB Contributor | March 15, 2007 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Pavano hide auto accident and injury from his team. A Florida man involved last year in an auto accident with a Porsche driven by Carl Pavano has sued the New York Yankees pitcher for injuries allegedly sustained in the crash, which the player initially tried to hide from his team, according to an article posted last week on CBS SportsLine.Ernest DeLaura, 47, who filed the lawsuit two months...

• Cars Against Drunk Driving

  IB Contributor | March 14, 2007 10:35 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  New technologies designed to save lives.According to a recent Health & Science report, Toyota Motor Corporation is in development of a car that will detect signs of drunk drivers before they get on the road with the rest of us. This type technology should be a prerequisite for the return of a driver's license to anyone convicted of driving under the influence. How many lives would be saved by...

• Vacuum Truck Driver Killed in Explosion

  Christina Cole | March 13, 2007 8:32 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• Second Fatal Street Racing Accident In A Month

  IB Contributor | March 12, 2007 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Another teenage street racing death.Two illegally street racing vehicles collided last Friday night about 9:15 p.m. killing an 18-year-old Fontana woman passenger, according to Fontana police as reported by the Press Enterprise.Monica Molina was a passenger in a Nissan being driven by Juan Barajas, 19. Barajas was racing Jose Alcantar, 23 who was driving a black Ford. The were racing westbound...

• 4-Car Crash Shuts Down San Diego Freeway

  Christina Cole | March 09, 2007 6:33 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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 Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...