Automobile Accidents

• 4 Children Seriously Injured When Ejected in Pickup Rollover on I-5

  Todd Slaughter | January 20, 2009 2:46 PM | 1 CommentRedding, CA

  SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. - Four children suffered serious injuries when they were ejected from the pickup they were riding in. The pickup was driven by a 54-year-old Cottonwood man who was traveling...

• Is the Spree of Hit and Runs a Product of a Bad Economy?

  John Demas | November 13, 2008 6:23 PM | 1 CommentSacramento, CA

  Insurance is one of those monthly bills that people believe they can cut back on or do without during hard economic times. There are times when I really wish I didn’t have to shell out...

• How Good is Your Hospital?

  Rhiannon Safford | October 16, 2008 6:48 PM | 1 CommentSacramento, CA

  The Colorado-based, healthcare quality measurement firm, Healthgrades, has just published its latest ratings of hospitals across the country. The Healthgrades website has developed a user-friendly...

• Backover Deaths Can Be Prevented

  IB Contributor | June 26, 2007 8:49 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  One hundred children die in "backover" accidents each year.Every week, at least two children are killed and 50 more are injured in automobile "backover" accidents. Unfortunately, rear cameras and audible warning sensors that could help prevent such tragedies are not standard or considered "must have", safety equipment by auto manufacturers. And, while such safety equipment is offered as an...

• Las Vegas police to pay record $1.48 million to settle lawsuit

  IB Contributor | March 31, 2007 11:56 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  Police covering for their own.Las Vegas Police have agreed to pay a record $1.48 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused officers of giving special treatment to an officer's wife after she was involved in a fatal bicycle accident 13 years ago, according to an Associated Press news report published in the Las Vegas Review Journal.The driver, Janet Wagner, wife of Police Officer David...

• Speeding and alcohol takes another young life in Orange County

  IB Contributor | March 21, 2007 12:49 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  Speeding and alcohol may have left an 18-year-old Buena Park man dead and a teenage passenger hurt this morning in a single-vehicle auto accident near Merten Avenue and Moody Street, the Orange County Register reported on today.According to the article, Philip Na was driving a Toyota Camry about 1:40 a.m. Wednesday when it careened off the road and hit a light pole, police officials said.Na died...

• Ford Excursion Rollover Fatality

  IB Contributor | March 20, 2007 9:48 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  Was this a roof crush fatality?A California man driving a Ford Excursion on U.S. 6 just east of Ely, Nevada died Sunday in a single-vehicle rollover accident according to a story by NBC News 4.Jay Wooten of Fairfield, California was driving his Ford Excursion with five other people in the vehicle, when he swerved to avoiding hitting an elk. According to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper George...

• Ford Recall to Fix Fire Hazard

  Christina Cole | March 07, 2007 10:19 AM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  Ford recalling 155,000 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.Ford Motor Company is recalling 155,000 sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks which includes the following models: 2003 F-150, F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 Super Duty truck, the Ford Excursion SUV and the Lincoln Blackwood pickup.The recall involves a defective cruise control switch that is potentially causing fires in older...

• GM recalls Saturn Outlook and GMC Acadia SUVs

  IB Contributor | February 24, 2007 10:46 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA

  General Motors Corp., the world's largest auto maker, announced Friday that it is recalling most of its new 2007 Saturn Outlook and GMC Acadia sport utility vehicles because the vehicles' front air bags may fail to deploy in a crash, according to a Bloomberg News report.The recall includes 13,032 of the SUVs built from August to this month, the automaker told the U.S. National Highway Traffic...

• Preventing Auto Crashes Caused by Superspeeders

  Rick Patterson | February 09, 2007 3:58 PM | 1 CommentLancaster, CA

  What do you think of this idea? Drivers who are pulled over for going 75 mph or more on two-lane roads or more than 85 mph on any state road would be forced to pay an additional $200 in fines. It appears that is what Govenor Sonny Perdue is proposing under legislation being filed Thursday. Not a bad idea. Perdue announced the filing of his "super speeder" legislation at an event promoting...