Automobile Accidents

• Chronic Whiplash Pain Is Real, and Often Caused by Spinal Facet Injury

  Todd Slaughter | September 12, 2008 7:24 PM | 2 CommentsRedding, CA

  In an article published in late 2007 in the prestigious Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the often asserted position that whiplash injuries cannot result in chronic pain was...

• Avoidable Tragedy- 2 Die in Sacramento Construction Zone

  Barbara Burks | June 12, 2009 1:14 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Our roads and highways are an unmatched path across our country. The most common mode of transportation in America is via our personal vehicles. In order to get where we want to go the roads have to...

• Person Dies in San Jose Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | July 28, 2007 12:12 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  One person died and another two were injured in a car accident on Interstate Highway 280. The three car accident happened during Thursday morning rush hour traffic. The car accident happened in San Jose at Race Street and ended with one car on fire. At about 7:38 a.m. the three-car accident was reported to the CHP. Several drivers who passed the scene reported seeing a black Toyota Camry as...

• Sudden Onset Illness Causes Auto Accident

  Nigel Whitehead | May 20, 2008 11:03 AM | 0 CommentsSan Luis Obispo, CA

  What happens when a driver of a car suffers a sudden and unexpected medical condition, such as a heart attack, which causes him to lose control of his car resulting in an accident? In California if...

• Street-racing crash in Yorba Linda kills 68-year-old woman

  IB Contributor | March 26, 2007 10:17 PM | 4 CommentsOrange County, CA

  A 68-year-old Orange County woman was fatally injured in an auto accident Sunday when she attempted to make a left turn from a residential neighborhood, The Orange County Register reported Monday. Police officials suspect that street racing may have caused the crash.Witnesses told Brea Police officials that two cars were seen speeding side-by-side, southbound down the hillside street of Fairmont...

• Doctors Discover Tumor in Woman after Roll-Over Accident

  Amber Wheat | November 12, 2008 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  I am sure everybody heard about Shannon Goods’s 45 foot drop on I-5. She and her daughter were in her Ford Explorer when she swerved to the left to avoid another vehicle. The truck went over...

• Hospital Balance Billing in California

  Nigel Whitehead | October 16, 2008 6:14 PM | 0 CommentsSan Luis Obispo, CA

  In California if you end up in the emergency room at least you don't have to worry about the bill since you have health insurance, right? Not so fast. This week a new rule was put in to place...

• 11-year-old Oakland Girl Killed By a Hit-and-Run Driver

  Claude Wyle | October 23, 2009 3:12 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Alana Williams, a sixth-grader at Frick Middle School in East Oakland, was killed on October 16, 2009, as she walked through a crosswalk at a busy intersection on her way to school. Muni ...

• San Jose Teen Unconscious After Car Accident, Expected To Survive

  Chrissie Cole | August 09, 2009 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsSan Jose, CA

  Jessica Huse, 18, of San Jose, suffered serious injuries in a car accident Sunday morning on her way to church. According to her family, she is expected to survive, but she is still...

• CHP "Zero Tolerance Day" Hopes to Make an Impact

  John Demas | July 23, 2009 12:07 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA

  Yesterday was the California Highway Patrol's Zero Tolerance Day. The CHP stopped motorists for everyday traffic violations like speeding, tailgaiting, and most recently texting. While these and...