An early morning car crash near Porterville killed three people, the California Highway Patrol said as reported by the Fresno Bee. The accident, which occurred a little after 3:00 a.m. on April 26, 2012, may have been the result of drunk driving, the CHP said. According to CHP, The Bee reports, a woman was driving a 2003 Chevrolet...
read moreEarly Wednesday morning, March 28, 2012, a 25-year-old woman died after a car hit her on Highway 99 and left the scene of the accident. The woman, Shacorie R. Hood, had run across the highway to help people who had been in a crash, the Fresno Bee reports, when a vehicle hit her at approximately 1:30 a.m. According to California...
read moreA big rig crashed and then overturned on Wednesday night near Los Banos. The driver was critically injured, according to the California Highway Patrol. The accident occurred at about 6:30 p.m. on Interstate 5 towards to eastbound Highway 152. The truck driver was apparently traveling excessively fast on a highway on-ramp when he...
read moreA man hit several trees and was seriously injured on Saturday night while driving on Highway 168 near Shaver Ranch, just two miles from Cressman’s General Store. The man was driving a white Toyota pickup truck and was not wearing a seatbelt, according to the California Highway Patrol. He was jostled in his truck during the...
read moreThe Fresno police department made eleven arrests for driving under the influence throughout the Fresno and Visalia area on Saturday and Sunday of the weekend. The checkpoint in Fresno was set up between Fresno and Barstow avenues in northeastern Fresno. Fifteen vehicles were also impounded because their drivers did not have a proper...
read moreA Thursday morning accident left one woman dead on Highway 41 in Madera County, according to the California Highway Patrol. The 29-year-old Andrea Lynn Greiner from Coarsegold died when she was hit by a truck near the intersection at Road 208. Greiner was standing on the side of the highway at about 2 a.m. when she was hit by a 2008...
read moreAn 18 year-old Fresno resident was reportedly drunk when he got behind the wheel and hit and killed a 20 year-old man after a weekend party. The accident occurred in East Central Fresno near Shields and Armstrong streets. Family members of both of the people involved said that the two did not know each other prior to the party on...
read moreAn accident on Tuesday morning left one man dead just south of Lindsay, California. The 79-year-old victim drove his car into the path of oncoming traffic on Avenue 208 just after 11 a.m. The other vehicle was traveling north on Highway 65. The man died on impact. The driver of the other vehicle and his passenger were taken to the...
read moreA man from Gustine died after he drove his Jeep into an oncoming big-rig outside of Fresno on Tuesday night. The 55-year-old driver was attempting to pass another big-rig on Highway 33 when he drove head on into an approaching truck at around 8 p.m. The driver was killed on impact and his passenger was taken to the hospital with...
read moreA Friday morning crash between a school bus and a minivan left the driver of the van hospitalized. The crash occurred at 8 a.m. at the corner of Belmont Avenue and Broadway. The minivan driver apparently was driving north on Broadway when he ran a red light and hit the school bus. The school bus spun and collided with a utility...
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