A police chase ended on Wednesday morning in Westminster after the suspect involved, crashed into a pickup truck, reports said. The chase started at about 6:20 a.m. when an officer tried to stop a silver Dodge Caliber near the intersection of Newhope Street and McFadden Avenue for a simple traffic violation, but the vehicle...
read moreMost Orange County drivers know that although there are laws expressly prohibiting texting and talking while driving, motorists freely ignore them. State Senator Joe Simitian, who wrote the first laws, says that he knows that his laws are being ignored, and he wants to change this by drafting a new law that would increase the fines...
read moreThe 7-month-old baby girl who was critically injured in a three-vehicle accident is still fighting for her life, according to officials. The baby was riding in the orange Ford Bronco that rolled over and landed on its roof on Wednesday morning. The vehicle was then hit by a silver Honda, said a police spokesman for the Huntington...
read moreAuthorities said that a driver was killed on Friday night when some unidentified metal object smashed through his windshield and hit him on the head. The man was identified as William Donovan, 60, of Irvine, by the Orange County Coroner’s Office. The California Highway Patrol said that Donovan died when he drove his Toyota in the...
read moreWith May 2012 unfolding as National Youth Traffic Safety Month, a number of outreach campaigns are encouraging people to help keep young drivers safe. One of those campaigns is the “Safe Summer Driving Campaign” that the Texting Awareness Foundation (TAF) is coordinating. In addition to the efforts TAF has made for their...
read moreA collision involving a Jeep and a pickup injured two children yesterday morning in Anaheim, sending them to the hospital, The Orange County Register reports. The accident, which occurred a little before 9:30 a.m. on May 10, 2012, called responders to the scene in the 1900 block of S. Haster Street near Katella Avenue. According to...
read moreA fiery crash in Studio City would have led to one woman’s untimely demise had it not been for the actions of a brave man who pulled her from the vehicle. The accident occurred in the 10700 block of Ventura Boulevard at 12:15 a.m. According to police reports, the woman was driving in a pickup truck at a high rate of speed when she...
read moreBoth directions of the 405 Freeway were closed for a few hours on Thursday after power lines fells on multiple vehicles in Orange County. The accident happened at the Magnolia Street exit near the cities of Huntington Beach and Westminster. The California Highway Patrol reported that several vehicles were involved when they were hit...
read moreThe woman who was killed when her car swerved over the edge of Malibu Canyon Road was identified today by authorities. The crash occurred just before 10 a.m. on Thursday about a mile away from the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The woman was named as 46-year-old Jennifer King of Topanga, according to the coroner’s office. She...
read moreAn employee who was working at a construction site in Benedict Canyon died after he was buried under several feet of earth by accident. The Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said that he was underground for about 20 minutes before he was discovered by his coworkers. About 80 firefighters from both Beverly Hills...
read moreA man was hit by a freight train in Santa Fe Springs on Wednesday morning was transported to a local hospital for treatment of his severed arm, according to officials. The man was severely injured and was found by police officials walking on the railroad tracks near the area of Rosecrans and Marquardt avenues just before 4 in the...
read moreA crash on the 241 toll road in Irvine left one person severely injured on Wednesday after their vehicle swerved off the road. Deputies received reports of a crash at about 8 p.m. of a pickup that had careened over the side of a ravine near Alton Parkway, according to CHP officer and spokesman Gabe Montoya. The vehicle rolled over...
read moreAuthorities declared that two lanes on the eastbound side of the 22 freeway would be blocked off for an indefinite amount of time following a bus collision with another vehicle. The police have not yet determined if anyone was injured in the crash, but firefighters and paramedics were called to the scene. The collision occurred just...
read moreAuthorities have confirmed that at least one person has been killed in an accident that involved several vehicles. The crash is still under investigation, but police officials are looking into how it occurred. Police received reports of a crash at the intersection of Bolsa Chica Street and Tasman Drive just after 7:31 a.m.,...
read moreThe driver of a commercial dump truck said that failed brakes on the vehicle caused him to lose control and ram it into two cars before flipping it over. Police received reports of the accident at 9:58 a.m. on Monday on Lake Forest Drive at the intersection of Canada. The truck was carrying asphalt to a construction site and was...
read moreCaltrans officials said that temporary closures of the northbound 55 connector to the westbound 91 will probably be in effect until at least Wednesday. The road will be shut down from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. while work crews perform core drilling as a part of the 91 widening project. The project is scheduled for...
read moreA crash that occurred just before midnight in Orange left one 19-year-old man dead, according to police. The police received reports of a crash at about 11:55 p.m. on Thursday that involved at least two vehicles at the intersection of Jamboree Road and Chapman Avenue. Witness said that a gray Honda Civic was traveling north on...
read moreOne year after the near-fatal bus accident that almost killed U.S. volleyball player Stacy Sykora, she still remembers the devastation of the crash when she speaks of it, by rubbing her right hand over her heart. “I never used to put my hand over my heart. But then people started noticing that I rubbed my heart every time I...
read morePolice had to shut down both sides of the I-5 freeway in San Clemente after a man led them on a chase. Eventually he was arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said. Police said they were also looking for the man’s girlfriend and two young children after there were reports that something suspicion happened at their place of...
read moreLong Beach police are still searching for the hit-and-run driver who smashed into an apartment building on Friday early in the morning. The accident occurred in the 1800 block of East Pacific Coast Highway, near the intersection with Rose Avenue. According to several witnesses, the driver plowed into the complex and then fled the...
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