A recent report released by the California Highway Patrol concludes that a big rig driver traveling at an unsafe rate of speed caused the fiery, catastrophic multi-vehicle crash in October 12, 2007. The accident had involved two dozen vehicles including several large trucks in a tunnel on the 5 Freeway…
A 19-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run the morning of February 7, 2009 after officials say, she struck and seriously injured a bicyclist. According to this news blog in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the car versus bicycle collision occurred in Mira Mesa and the 51-year-old bicycle accident…
A 60-year-old West Covina man killed in a collision with a fire truck in Mira Loma has been identified as Agustin Nava Miramontes, according to a news report in The Press Enterprise. Miramontes was killed the morning of February 4, 2009 after his Dodge Ram broadsided a Riverside County fire…
A toddler in San Marcos, who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver the evening of February 4, 2009, has been identified as 18-month-old Christopher Castellanos. The boy, who lived with his parents and siblings in a trailer on Smilax Road near Adeline Court south of State Route 78,…
I came across this interesting and emotional article on the subject of hit-and-run accidents written by Long Island blogger, Curtis Jackson. He talks about how hit-and-run accidents occur and why people choose not to take responsibility about it. He wonders why someone would deny their mistake and leave their victim…
A man who was seriously injured in a Thousand Oaks motorcycle accident on February 2, 2009 has been identified as 33-year-old Ambrosio Rodriguez, the Ventura County Star reports in this article. The collision occurred when Rodriguez who was riding his motorcycle east on Hillcrest Drive hit a Buick Rendezvous pulling…
A 64-year-old woman who suffered serious injuries in an Orange County pedestrian versus auto accident has been identified as Maria Salinas of Placentia. Salinas was waiting to cross Placentia Avenue at Ruby Drive on January 31, 2009 when the driver of a pickup truck veered to the right, jumped the…
Frank Kwangsu Kim, 49, of Lake Elsinore was killed in a Chino Hills rollover auto accident the morning of February 3, 2009 after his car hit some debris on the 91 Freeway and crashed. According to this news report, Kim was driving a Nissan Sentra eastbound on the 91 Freeway…
Investigators looking into a fatal bus crash in Arizona that killed seven people and injured several others are now saying that the bus driver may have been distracted just before the horrific accident. According to this Associated Press news report, the bus company and the bus driver, 48-year-old Han Dong,…
A 3-year-old boy in Orange County has survived a near-drowning incident after his older brother rescued him from the bottom of a swimming pool the afternoon of February 1, 2009. According to this news report in The Orange County Register, the boy’s family was visiting a home at Via Divertirse…
