Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Ex-reality-TV star arrested on suspicion of DUI

  IB Contributor | March 28, 2007 10:22 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Jessica Smith, a former star of the MTV reality television show "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County," was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after an auto accident on the northbound San Diego (I-5) Freeway on Monday, according to a news report in The Orange County Register.Smith, 19, of Laguna Beach, crashed a 1999 Volkswagen Beetle into the back of...

• Another street racing death?

  IB Contributor | March 27, 2007 11:03 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The drivers of two vehicles that appeared to be racing are apparently responsible for the death of one man and injuries to four other people in a multi-vehicle auto accident in downtown Los Angeles yesterday according to police. The driver of an involved passenger car died at the scene when his vehicle was struck by a SUV, according to Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department's...

• Woman Dragged on Hood in Hit-and-Run Accident

  Christina Cole | March 26, 2007 11:55 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Hit-and-Run driver doesn't stop as he hits woman, dragging her a block.A woman was killed by a hit-and-run motorist as she was pushing a cart across the street in Avalon Gardens of South Los Angeles.The accident occurred on Saturday at 7:30pm near Avalon Boulevard. The car was gray, either a Toyota Corolla, Camry or Tercel with a black hood.The woman was caught on the roof of the car and dragged...

• Street-racing crash in Yorba Linda kills 68-year-old woman

  IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 10:17 PM | 4 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 68-year-old Orange County woman was fatally injured in an auto accident Sunday when she attempted to make a left turn from a residential neighborhood, The Orange County Register reported Monday. Police officials suspect that street racing may have caused the crash.Witnesses told Brea Police officials that two cars were seen speeding side-by-side, southbound down the hillside street of Fairmont...

• Garden Grove man dies in rollover accident

  IB Contributor | March 25, 2007 3:47 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  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...

• Teen charged with vehicular homicide

  IB Contributor | March 22, 2007 12:43 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Street racing turns into fatal car accident.A Washington teenager, has been charged with vehicular homicide and felony hit-and-run due to a fatal auto accident early last month, according to a story in the Bellingham Herald. It was at least the third fatal auto accident in Bellingham in the last twelve months involving teen drivers and high speeds.The 17-year-old teenager was driving an Acura...

• Speeding and alcohol takes another young life in Orange County

  IB Contributor | March 21, 2007 12:49 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Speeding and alcohol may have left an 18-year-old Buena Park man dead and a teenage passenger hurt this morning in a single-vehicle auto accident near Merten Avenue and Moody Street, the Orange County Register reported on today.According to the article, Philip Na was driving a Toyota Camry about 1:40 a.m. Wednesday when it careened off the road and hit a light pole, police officials said.Na died...

• Husband of woman crushed by bus filed $100-million lawsuit

  IB Contributor | March 20, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Public transportation bus accident kills two women.The husband of an Virginia woman who was struck and killed by a Metrobus in downtown Washington D.C. last month filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court Monday, seeking $100 million in damages from the transit agency, according to an article in the Washington Post.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, was brought by...

• Another fatal rollover auto accident

  IB Contributor | March 19, 2007 9:42 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Neither of the deceased were wearing seat belts.An unsafe lane change Friday lead to two deaths and five injuries in an multi-car accident on Highway 99 according to the California Highway Patrol, as reported by ABC News.Lauro Aguliar Juarez, 28 apparently struck a Ford Taurus with his Nissan Altima while making a lane change, causing the Ford to rollover. The accident killed one person...

• Another teenage auto fatality

  IB Contributor | March 18, 2007 10:29 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Is this a case of seat belt failure or failure to use a seat belt?The Orange County Register reported that a Lake Forest man, who was not seat belted, was ejected from the rear-passenger seat of the vehicle he was traveling in and died from his injuries. The accident occurred along the shoulder of the northbound Mohave (I-15) Freeway near Hesperia late Saturday night.According to California...