Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Three Killed in Contra Costa Levee Accident

  Christina Cole | April 09, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a car accident on Sunday, the driver of an SUV traveling with six occupants, lost control of his vehicle near Discovery Bay. The accident caused the SUV to roll down a 25-foot embankment into the water, according to California Highway Patrol.The 25-year-old driver was killed, as well as a four-year-old and five-year-old. Two older children also in the car at the time of the accident were not...

• Car Crash Takes out Power Pole

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

  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...

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

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

  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...

• Soldier involved in deadly crash arrested

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:34 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  He's charged with two counts of vehicular manslaugher. A man who triggered a January car crash in Rialto that claimed the lives of two teen girls was captured in Kentucky and is expected to be returned to California soon, according to an article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (http://www.dailybulletin.com/search/ci_5553373)David Ponce Ledezma, 21, of Colton, who is in the U.S. Army and was...

• A "dangerous" California Highway

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:18 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The death of Gillian Cichowski-a teacher; an active community leader; and, mother of two children, who died in February of 1992, while attempting to make a left hand turn on Route 17 prompted the California Senate to pass a resolution naming a bridge over Route 17 the 'Gillian Cichowski Memorial Overcrossing Bridge', and her death gave impetus to the building of the overpass that replaced the...

• "RoccerMom" sentenced in deadly DUI crash

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

  A woman who killed her daughter's 16-year-old friend in a crash while driving home drunk from a nightclub was sentenced Friday to at least 16 months in prison, according to an Associated Press new report posted on the Boston Globe's Web site.Ann Marie Ciarcia, 47, who called herself "RoccerMom" and listed nightclubbing as an interest on a MySpace Web page, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter,...

• Two die in three-car crash

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

  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,...

• Drunk driving leads to murder charge

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

  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...

• DUI driver convicted of murder

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 10:30 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Possible sentence is five to 99 years in prison.A repeat drunken driver was found guilty of murder Thursday in the death of a Houston women in a fatal automobile accident last year in Clute, Texas. The sentencing phase of the trial began yesterday in the Brazoria County Courthouse.According to "TheFacts.com":Elden Lee Carter, 33, was on probation for his third drunken driving conviction May 16,...

• ATV crash kills teenager

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 8:47 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An 18-year-old man died earlier this month in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Conoy Township in rural Pennsylvania, according to a news report posted on LancasterOnLine.The man, whom police did not identify, was a passenger on the back of a Honda ATV driven by his 18-year-old male friend prior to the accident, according to police officials. The driver was seriously injured in the crash,...