A 6-year-old Costa Mesa boy suffered critical head injuries after a crash on the 55 Freeway that officials say was caused by a drunk driver. According to a news report in the Daily Pilot, 34-year-old Morgan T. Webster of Newport Beach was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence…
A 25-year-old woman, who reportedly was possibly talking on her cell phone and not wearing a seatbelt, was killed when a public bus carrying school students crashed into the sedan she was driving, also injuring six students on the bus, according to a news report in the Los Angeles Daily…
The Shasta County District Attorney has decided not to file charges in the fatal bicycle accident case where a bicyclist was struck and killed by a car on Highway 299 in Redding two months ago. According to a news article in the Redding Record Searchlight, Sherry Mann, 58 was riding…
A 20-year-old pedestrian died after she was hit by a maintenance sweeper truck at the Ontario International Airport while she was walking across a marked crosswalk. According to an article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, the Ford Dually being driven by an airport employee was traveling at 15 miles…
A Minnesota meat packer has recalled close to 188,000 pounds of ground beef patties and other meat products because officials believe the beef could be contaminated with dangerous E. Coli bacteria, according to an MSNBC news report. Rochester Meat Co. reportedly issued the recall after five people reported becoming ill…
Canadian officials are investigating a tragic 15-passenger van crash that killed eight out of 12 people in the vehicle — seven members of a high school basketball team and their teacher. According to a news article in Canada’s CBC News, the Ford Club wagon fishtailed and collided with a big…
Federal investigators are looking into reports of front passenger seat airbag failures in about 330,000 BMW cars and SUV’s, the consumer watchdog Web site, Consumeraffairs.com reports. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/01/nhtsa_bmw_airbags.html In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defect Investigation is reporting that the BMW vehicles’ front airbags may be…
A drunk driver may have put the end to the life of a Compton man who worked four truck-driving jobs to support his wife and four kids, the Daily Breeze reports. Juan Gabriel Ontiveros, 32, was on his way home when his vehicle was broadsided by the driver of a…
The Catholic Diocese of Yakima in Washington State has paid $200,000 to settle lawsuits brought by four women who accused a now-deceased priest of brutally raping them when they were young girls in the 1960s. According to an article in the Yakima Herald-Republic, the bishop apologized to the women, but…
A set of quadruplets 4 years old and their 30-year-old mother survived with minor injuries in what could have been an extremely tragic accident in Costa Mesa, the Daily Pilot reports. The accident reportedly happened on Bear Street in Costa Mesa. The mother and children, whose names have not been…