Posts tagged accident

• Man Using Laptop while Driving Dies in Car Crash

  Christina Cole | February 27, 2007 12:58 AM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As you might imagine, using a laptop computer in your car, while driving, probably isn't the best thing to do.A man whom appeared to be driving while using his laptop died in a car accident when his vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed with a Hummer.CHP says they found the dead man's laptop computer plugged into the lighter of his Honda Accord and still running. The man that died in...

• Parents Sued For Babysitter's Auto Accident

  John Bisnar | February 11, 2007 3:45 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Most of us have hired a babysitter to watch our children at one time or another. Even one of the neighborhood kids, right? But, what happens when the babysitter causes an automobile accident? You could be liable, according to a recent decision by the 3rd District Court of Appeals.Babysitter, eighteen year-old Michael Ruhland, driving his father's car, had just picked up William and Lori...

• Hollister Man Dies in Car Crash

  Christina Cole | December 10, 2006 10:31 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 26-year-old Hollister man was killed shortly after noon Saturday in a head-on collision on Soquel San Jose Road.According to reports, the accident occurred when a driver heading south in a 2004 Dodge Ram lost control of his truck in the rain, slid over the double yellow line and crashed into a 1991 Buick Century. The Hollister man died instantly, California Highway Patrol reported.Both...

• Drinking, Boating and the California Law

  John Demas | July 07, 2011 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  “Don’t Drink and Drive”. Everyone knows that rule when it comes to cars on the highway and keeping intoxicated drivers off the road. But all too often that same rule gets pushed...

• San Francisco Bicycle Accident Attorney Reports Another Taxi-Bike Accident This Week!

  Claude Wyle | June 01, 2011 10:05 PM | 3 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Cab drivers are an important part of San Francisco, and unfortunately this week the taxis are one of the hazards, particularly for bicyclists and pedestrians. San Francisco is a supposedly bicycle...

• Can crash tax help to reduce the rate of accidents?

  John Demas | September 07, 2010 12:50 PM | 3 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Laws allowing local cities and governments to collect a fee for the cost of handling accidents have been on the books for years and many have. Now, in these tough economic times, even more...

• El Cajon Motorcycle Accident Kills Passenger

  Randy Walton | November 12, 2007 8:24 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  A motorcycle crash in El Cajon Saturday killed a passenger on the vehicle and left its driver with multiple injuries. Shanna Vogel, 33, of El Cajon died shortly after the crash, which occurred about 7:10 p.m. Saturday near Bancroft Drive and Lemon Avenue, the Medical Examiner's Office said. The motorcycle ran off a curve on Bancroft Drive. La Mesa police were investigating the cause of the...

• Pileup in Fresno Kills 2 and Injures Many

  Jenny Albano | November 03, 2007 7:36 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On Saturday, November 3, there was a huge pileup of over 100 vehicles near Fresno, California that ended up killing two people and injuring many more. A dense fog was blamed for the pileup.A 6-year-old and a 28-year-old who were traveling in separate cars were killed in chain-reaction collisions around 7:45 a.m. Several people trapped in vehicles had to be extracted and more than three dozen...

• Dublin Trucking Accident Causes Backup

  Shannon Weidemann | October 04, 2007 12:53 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A trucking accident on the Interstate 580 Connector to 680 caused a massive traffic backup all over the area. A truck that was first thought to be carrying hazardous materials overturned in Dublin yesterday morning. Traffic had to be rerouted onto surface streets while the scene was cleaned up. The crash occurred on northbound I-680 near the connection at eastbound I-580 around 7:40 a.m.,...

• Deadly Automobile Accident Kills 3 Children in Tulare County

  David Rowell | September 24, 2007 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A deadly automobile accident on Saturday killed 3 children in Tulare County. Tulare County Deputy Sheriff Joseph Armstrong was on his way to work in his pickup truck at about 1:00 p.m. when he ran a stop sign and collided with an SUV driven by Tanya Rader. Three children inside the SUV, ages two, three and five, died in the collision. Armstrong and Rader, both seriously hurt, were airlifted to...