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Farzad Etesamifar, 25, of Reseda and 23-year-old Sepehr Keshavarz of Iran were killed in an Encino traffic accident at the intersection of Ventura Boulevard and Densmore Avenue, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Daily News.

Sean Mishlof, a 24-year-old man from Northridge was driving a Mercury Mystique and hit the two men while they were stopped at a red light in their Nissan Sentra. Mishlof has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and has been charged with DUI and murder.

My heartfelt condolences are with the families of Mr. Etesamifar and Mr. Keshavarz – so young and with so many years ahead of them. The Los Angeles police are good at getting to the bottom of fatality auto accidents. I trust that if Mishlof was driving while intoxicated and caused this accident, he’ll be doing some serious jail time.

Mishlof doing jail time will not bring back the lost lives or compensate the families for their losses. No amount of money can compensate for the loss of a life. If Etesamifar or Keshavarz had children, spouses or parents that they supported, their families would be well within their rights to seek financial compensation from Mishlof for the losses. Their heirs have substantial rights to compensation, even if they were not being supported.
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Lisbet Linares de Villela, a 42-year-old woman was killed and five people were injured in a Canoga Park car crash at 7919 De Soto Ave, according to a recent CBS report.

Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department said the accident happened near Strathern Street and involved Villela’s car, an SUV and a minivan. Villela apparently collided head-on with one of the other two vehicles. The crash left an 11-year-old girl in the car with non-life-threatening injuries. A 65-year-old driver of one of the other vehicles was taken to the West Hills Hospital & Medical Center and three other people from the third vehicle suffered minor injuries.

My condolences are with the injured and especially to the family of Linares de Villela.
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A Costa Mesa car accident that began with a car spinning out of control on Harbor Boulevard and ending up on Merrimac Way near Adams Avenue and Fair Drive recently injured five people, according to an article in The Orange County Register.

Garden Grove resident Tomas Narciso Torres, a 26-year-old man and four other male passengers were speeding northbound on Harbor Boulevard in a Dodge Neon sedan, when they decided to change lanes to pass a slower vehicle and then lost control. Police said Torres had overcorrected the steering making the car veer across the traffic lanes, hitting a tree and a parked SUV before landing on its roof. The auto wreck injured only the Neon’s five occupants, all in their 20s. Their wounds ranged from minor to major. Torres who has a prior DUI conviction was later arrested on suspicion of felony DUI.

I deeply sympathize with the injured young men and am saddened by their unnecessary suffering. I wish them a speedy recovery.
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Michelle Kermani, a 20-year-old woman from Newport Beach, was injured in a DUI rear end car crash reportedly caused by 41-year-old Jean Bower, principal of Westwood Basics Plus Elementary School in Irvine, according to a recent MSNBC news report.

Officials suspect Bower was driving under the influence of alcohol and crashed her Lexus IS200 into Kermani’s Hyundai Tiburon on Jamboree Road in Irvine near the intersection of San Joaquin Hills Road and Eastbluff Drive. Phillip Okura, 21, a Newport Beach resident, was Kermani’s only passenger. Newport Beach Police spokesman Evan Sailor said Bower was arrested after field sobriety tests. Kermani had reportedly complained of neck pain.

In California, it is illegal to drive with a blood alcohol level of .08 or more. If it is determined that Ms. Bower was driving under the influence of alcohol, she will face criminal DUI charges.
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A two-vehicle collision in Palm Springs at the intersection of Ramon Road and El Placer, near Palm Springs International Airport has injured four of its occupants, according to a recent report in the Press-Enterprise.

The crash involved a BMW and a pickup truck at the intersection leaving the truck wrapped around a traffic signal. Police Sgt, John Fallon said the driver of the BMW that was also badly damaged, fled on foot after the accident. The injuries in this car accident ranged from moderate to major and the injured have been taken to the Desert Regional Medical Center, according to Battalion Chief Austin Smith of the Palm Springs Fire Department. It is not clear what caused the accident, but officials are still investigating the case.

I trust the Palm Springs police will identify BMW’s driver and learn more about the cause of this car crash. I would venture to guess that the BMW driver will be held responsible for the accident and charged with “hit and run” for leaving the scene of an auto accident.
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A motorcyclist has died from a Friday afternoon motorcycle accident on Highway 58 at S. Union Avenue, Bakersfield that was caused by scrap metal debris on the highway.

The California Highway Patrol said a big rig hauling scrap iron was heading west on Highway 58, when pieces of metal started falling off the truck. The motorcyclist behind the big rig, according to the CHP, swerved to avoid the debris, lost control of his motorcycle and was run over by the big rig. (I don’t see how this sequence is possible, but that is what was reported).

The big rig did not stop at the scene and the CHP is looking for the truck and driver. This is all according to a report by KGET TV 17 Bakersfield on their website. Anyone having information on this accident or the identify of the truck or driver involved is asked to contact the California Highway Patrol.

More than 25,000 traffic accidents a year are caused by debris dumped or falling from vehicles in North America according to a 2004 report on vehicle-related debris by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The California State Transportation Department (CalTrans) estimates that 140,000 cubic yards of debris winds up on California’s roadways each year. Highway debris has caused 155 California traffic accident fatalities in the last two years.
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A Catalina Island helicopter crash has claimed the life of Emeric Maillet, a 33-year-old pilot and two passengers while seriously injuring the remaining three passengers. According to a recent KTLA news report, the Eurocopter AS-350, operated by Island Express, went down
near the Banning House lodge at Two Harbors.

Tania Hurd, a culinary arts teacher at John Burroughs High School in Burbank was believed to be one of two passengers killed. The other victim is said to be a male employee of Island Express. Officials are using dental records to help establish the identities of the victims
This is truly a horrible tragedy and I offer my condolences to the families of the victims.
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Crystal Gail Bowerman, a 29-year-old San Jose woman allegedly caused an auto collision that critically injured a 76-year-old woman, according to an article in The Mercury News.

The San Jose pedestrian accident happened as Bowerman, who was in a white Ford Explorer eastbound on the Capitol Expressway, ran a red light at the Silver Creek Road and Capitol Expressway intersection and hit another sport-utility vehicle (SUV), which had the green light. The impact sent the SUV that had the right-of-way crashing into the woman on the crosswalk. Jermaine Thomas, a police spokesman said the injured woman, who was not identified in the report, remains in a serious condition at a nearby hospital. Bowerman has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
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Mike Willis, a 51-year-old man and a resident of Orange died of severe head injuries in an on-the-job accident at the Budget Inn in Whittier, The Orange County Register reports.

The accident happened at the Budget Inn at 14030 Whittier Blvd as Willis was changing bulbs on a motel sign and the hydraulic ladder he was using collapsed. Apparently, when the ladder was retracting, a cable snapped and the part of the ladder Willis was standing on began to crash down. Officer Jason Zuhlke of the Whittier Police Department said Willis plummeted 40 feet and landed head-first on to a concrete surface, suffering fatal head injuries. Willis, who was on the job for his employer, A & M Signs and Lighting, was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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An 18-month-old toddler, Bentley Colwell, drowned in a tragic Fresno swimming pool accident at his grandfather’s house in a Fig Garden neighborhood on the 600 block of East Saginaw Way, recently, according to an article in The Fresno Bee.

Bentley is believed to have fallen or jumped unnoticed, into the backyard swimming pool of the house in central Fresno near Wishon and Saginaw, said Cynthia Valdez, a police spokeswoman. The boy’s grandfather found him and pulled him out of the water. Bentley was pronounced dead at the Community Regional Medical Center. Valdez also reported there was no fence around the swimming pool or any evidence of safety measures.

This is truly a heartbreaking story and I offer my sincere condolences to the family.
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