A 65-year-old man was killed in a San Diego car accident the morning of January 3, 2010, after an SUV plowed into the restaurant where he was eating breakfast and struck him. According to a news report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the silver Honda CRV, driven by a 74-year-old…
A 46-year-old woman and her 9-year-old daughter sustained serious injuries in a San Diego car accident the morning of December 31, 2009, after the vehicle they were in was rear-ended by a driver who officials say may have been under the influence of prescription drugs. According to a news report…
Yolanda Gonzales, a 49-year-old mother of three, was killed in a Bakersfield car accident after she was hit by a vehicle while crossing the street. The fatal pedestrian accident occurred the night of December 18, 2009 on East Truxtom Avenue near Gage Street. The driver did not stop at the…
A woman was critically injured in a Los Angeles car accident after her car hit a pickup truck the morning of December 29, 2009. The Press Telegram reports that this car accident happened at the intersection of Bellflower Boulevard and Alondra Boulevard. The victim had to be extricated from the…
The Los Angeles Times published an article this week about the challenges faced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the federal auto safety agency that was created as a response to Ralph Nader’s career-making book “Unsafe at Any Speed.” Nader’s 1965 book highlighted auto product defects and design…
A pedestrian was seriously injured in a San Diego car accident after being struck by a vehicle the night of December 27, 2009, in El Cajon. According to a news report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the accident occurred near the intersection of Greenfield Drive and Peerless Drive. The pedestrian,…
A 35-year-old bicyclist has sustained critical injuries in a Los Angeles car accident, which possibly involved a drunk driver, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports. The bicycle accident occurred at the intersection of Temple and Puente avenues, the night of December 26, 2009, when the bicyclist was riding in a…
Jose Villaneuva, 26, was killed in a San Francisco truck accident after a dump truck backed over him, according to a Bay City News report. Villaneuva was apparently helping a Redwood City dump truck back up near Marine Parkway and Twin Dolphin Drive the afternoon of December 22, 2009, when…
A man who was killed in a Los Angeles car accident the morning of December 20, 2009, has been identified by authorities as 49-year-old Jamel Kammoun. The Daily Breeze reports that the fatal pedestrian accident occurred when Kammoun was struck by a car driven by a 17-year-old, when he was…
A 43-year-old pedestrian has sustained serious injuries in a Los Angeles car accident, after he was hit by a vehicle at a North Hollywood intersection, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. The vehicle fled the scene of the accident leaving the injured victim on the roadway. The major injury pedestrian…