Automobile Accidents

• More Seat Belt Use Has Reduced Wrongful Deaths

  Claude Wyle | October 23, 2009 11:13 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  I am happy to report that more Americans are buckling up than ever before, with 83 percent of vehicle occupants using seatbelts during daylight hours, according to the U.S. Secretary of...

• 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...

• Two Drivers Seriously Injured in Head-On I-5 Crash

  Todd Slaughter | February 12, 2009 11:23 AM | 5 CommentsRedding, CA

  ANDERSON, Calif. - A mid-afternoon crash on I-5 yesterday sent both motorists to Mercy Medical Center with major injuries. According to the Redding Record Searchlight, the crash occurred on I-5 near...

• 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...

• Injury Accident on Highway 99

  David Rowell | June 13, 2008 11:27 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A single-vehicleautoaccident on Highway 99 near Visalia has resulted in major injuries to a California man, the California Highway Patrol reports. The driver was air-lifted to Community Regional...

• Turlock Youth Injured in Auto Accident

  David Rowell | November 30, 2007 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Mauricio Alaniz, 19, of Turlock was critically injured in an auto addicent on Wednesday when 60-year-old Cherry Crawford, of Riverbank, swerved into his vehicle on McHenry Avenue in Modesto. Alaniz, a basketball player for Modesto Junior College, suffered severe brain injuries in the collision, and remains in critical condition at Memorial Medical Center. For more information on this subject,...

• Ford Settles Lawsuit, and then Lies Again

  Brian Foley | November 29, 2007 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsSan Jose, CA

  Ford settled a class action lawsuit in Sacramento on Wednesday but then proceeded to lie to the public and media, claiming that the settlement ended all outstanding lawsuits against Ford stemming from Explorer rollovers.As reported in this Associated Press article, Ford spokeswoman Kristen Kinley claimed that the settlement, which will provide vouchers to Explorer owners to buy other Ford...

• 22nd Pedestrian San Francisco Death This Year

  Claude Wyle | September 17, 2007 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  An elderly Asian woman was killed last Tuesday afternoon when she was struck by a black Chevrolet sedan on Geary Boulevard, just across from St. Mary's Cathedral. This is the 22nd pedestrian death on the streets of San Francisco this year, a markedly deadly year for seniors, and a sharp increase from the 2006 pedestrian fatalities. Although this woman may have been jaywalking, according to an...

• Two wrecks on the 5 Freeway leave one dead

  IB Contributor | March 16, 2007 6:11 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Lagnua Niguel man charged with vehicular manslaughter.Two Orange County auto accidents, occurring nearly simultaneously about 11:15 p.m. Thursday, left one woman dead and four others injured - two critically - on the southbound San Diego (I-5) Freeway near the Alicia Parkway exit., the Orange County Register reported Friday.The collisions, which the CHP is treating as unrelated, also led to the...

• Second Fatal Street Racing Accident In A Month

  IB Contributor | March 12, 2007 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Another teenage street racing death.Two illegally street racing vehicles collided last Friday night about 9:15 p.m. killing an 18-year-old Fontana woman passenger, according to Fontana police as reported by the Press Enterprise.Monica Molina was a passenger in a Nissan being driven by Juan Barajas, 19. Barajas was racing Jose Alcantar, 23 who was driving a black Ford. The were racing westbound...