A 4-year-old boy was injured in a dog attack involving his family’s pit bull.
According to a CBS Los Angeles news report, the incident occurred the afternoon of July 7, 2014 at a home in the 7600 block of Honeysuckle Street.
The dog jumped on the child biting his head and face.
Two off-duty LAPD officers who live in the area responded to help the boy’s mother get the dog off the child.
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A motorcyclist suffered major injuries in a Riverside car accident after being hit by a left-turning vehicle.
According to a news report in The Press-Enterprise, the crash occurred on San Sevaine Way west of Wacker Driver the afternoon of June 30, 2014.
The motorcycle was traveling west on San Sevaine Way when it collided with the car, which was making a left turn into a business lot.
The motorcyclist was Continue reading →
State legislators in California are deliberating over a bill that would penalize someone at fault in a non-injury hit-and-run situation.
According to a news report on West Side Today, Assembly Bill 1532 would create a penalty for a driver who strikes a person and flees the scene without stopping, even if the person struck is not injured.
Under the proposed bill, a driver who is caught and convicted of a non-injury hit-and-run case would Continue reading →
A worker suffered injuries on the job after he fell about 25 feet into the cargo hold of a ship, which was docked at the Port of Los Angeles.
According to a City News Service report in the Daily Breeze, the incident occurred the morning of June 16, 2014 at Berth 209 near the 1000 block of New Dock Street.
The worker, a man in his late 50s, fell into a very small area two levels below deck of the 623-foot bulk cargo vessel Navios Vector, a Panamanian-registered ship.
The area was filled with 60-foot-long steel pipes that were securely fastened and the man was not trapped beneath them, officials said.
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Edward Salkin, 81, of Corona del Mar, was killed in a Newport Beach pedestrian accident, which officials say, involved a suspected DUI driver.
According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the fatal pedestrian accident occurred on Pacific Coast Highway near Morning Canyon the night of June 12, 2014.
Officials say Salkin was struck by a truck driven by 23-year-old Robert John Greaney of Costa Mesa.
He was arrested on Continue reading →
Nine people were injured when a driver ran a red light and hit an Orange County Transportation Authority bus the night of June 3, 2014.
The Orange County Register reports that the incident occurred at the intersection of 17th Street and Fairview Road.
Officials say the OCTA bus was traveling west on 17th Street when a Toyota going north on Fairview ran a red light and struck the bus.
The impact of the collision pushed the bus into a Continue reading →
A 4-year-old boy died in a swimming pool accident after he drowned in a spa pool located in the backyard of a home.
According to a KCAL9 news report, the incident occurred in the 2600 block of Mercedes Drive. The boy was trapped in the swimming pool when one of his hands got caught in a suction drain.
Fire officials said the boy’s great-grandparents were watching him and tried to rescue the child. It is not clear how long the boy was underwater.
Firefighters performed CPR on the boy and took him to the hospital where he later died.
Officials say this is a tragic accident that could have been completely avoided.
Upon investigation, officials found that Continue reading →
A man suffered critical injuries in an Orange County car accident after a vehicle struck him near a street intersection.
According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the major injury crash occurred near the intersection of Dale Avenue and Standustrial Street the night of May 27, 2014.
Police say a 2004 Mazda SUV headed north on Dale hit the man when he stepped off the curb.
The 27-year-old driver remained at the scene of the crash.
The pedestrian was thrown about 10 to 15 feet on impact. The man suffered severe head trauma.
Police believe that the pedestrian was Continue reading →
Police are looking for the driver who they say struck two women in South Los Angeles and then took off. According to CBS Los Angeles, the injury collision occurred the night of May 17, 2014 near Colden Avenue and Figueroa Street. Officials say the two women were crossing the street when they were hit. The driver left the scene. The injured victims were transported to an area trauma center where they were listed in stable condition. Police say the car that hit them was a gray Honda.
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A 49-year-old woman was struck and seriously injured by a maintenance vehicle while she was sunbathing on a beach near Venice.
According to a CBS Los Angeles news report, the accident occurred the morning of May 14, 2014 on Via Marina Peninsula Beach just north of the Marina Del Rey Harbor.
The driver of the vehicle, a longtime employee of the Los Angeles Department of Beaches and Harbors’ beach maintenance division, had stopped to tend to large pieces of debris near the shoreline, officials said.
As he tried to leave the area, he turned his Nissan Xterra SUV from the shore,
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