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Posted on July 23, 2014
Two people are dead after a car slammed into a parked big rig and went down an embankment, said police officials. Two others were injured. Officers responded to the car crash around 2:10 a.m. Saturday. The car crash happened on the Avalon Boulevard off ramp of the southbound 405 Freeway. The car exited at Avalon […]
Posted on July 21, 2014
An off-duty police officer died Saturday after she was injured in an off-duty accident earlier in the week, said a Los Angeles Police Department representative. Officer Kathleen Talbot crashed early Thursday morning. Details surrounding the crash are still unclear. Witnesses did tell radio station KHTS in Santa Clarita that Talbot’s vehicle crossed the centerline of […]
Posted on July 15, 2014
Arman Samsonian, 21, of Glendale, was sentenced to three years probation, 70 days of community service and work one day at the morgue for a car wreck that electrocuted the two people who rushed to help him, said prosecutors Wednesday. Samsonian is also ordered to pay restitution to both victims. In August 2012, two good samaritans […]
Posted on June 23, 2014
Two people lost their lives while two others were seriously injured in a traffic accident, authorities said. The crash happened in Sylmar Tuesday night. Police were notified of the incident about 8 p.m. Tuesday. The crash occurred in the 1200 block of Harding Street according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The crash was a […]
Posted on June 5, 2014
A driver of an SUV was killed after he allegedly ran a red light and collided with two other vehicles. The accident happened Thursday morning in North Hills, said police. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene at about 5:40 a.m. The accident happened at Haskell Avenue and Parthenia Street, said Los Angeles Police […]
Posted on April 25, 2014
Two people were killed and five others were injured in a four-vehicle car crash that occurred early Thursday morning. The accident happened on the Santa Ana Freeway in the Irvine area, according to authorities. The accident happened about 4:40 a.m., closing all northbound lanes for several hours. Seven people were injured, two of whom died […]
Posted on February 12, 2014
An early Sunday morning crash killed six people in a wrong-way, three-car pileup in Diamond Bar. Authorities say 21-year-old Olivia Carolee Culbreath was drunk when she was driving her 2013 Chevrolet Camaro the wrong way on the westbound 60 Freeway. She hit two other vehicles, killing two people in her car, and four people in […]
Posted on January 21, 2014
Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman. Detectives are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever fatally shot the 27-year-old woman inside a vehicle in downtown Los Angeles. Officers discovered 27-year-old Sonia Soto slumped over the steering wheel of a vehicle in the 600 block of Santa Fe Avenue in Los […]
Posted on January 7, 2014
A teen was killed when the car he and four other passengers were riding in crashed violently early Saturday morning. The teen killed was identified as 17-year-old Daniel Solis, of Downey. The crash happened shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday on Rosecrans Ave. and Lakewood Blvd. According to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, […]
Posted on December 24, 2013
In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, released in May, there were 33,687 deaths from car accidents and 38,364 suicides in 2010. Suicide, typically viewed as an issue with teens and the elderly, is increasing amongst middle-aged Americans, ages 35-64; many baby boomers are facing economic uncertainty that is […]
Posted on December 5, 2013
A 14-year-old boy died Sunday after the truck his 16-year-old brother was driving crashed. The accident occurred on Teal Road in Clarksburg, Calif. It took rescue crews almost 20 minutes to reach the rural area. The 16-year-old was uninjured in the crash. The identities of the teens have yet to be released. The California Highway […]
Posted on September 27, 2013
An elderly woman from the Santa Ana area was killed in an accident on Tuesday. Also, four others were injured during the Tuesday morning crash that was a two-car collision in Orange County, according to officials. The accident happened around 9 a.m. at the intersection of 1st and Sullivan streets in Santa Ana, according to […]
Posted on September 20, 2013
A 6-year-old boy was killed on Sunday in an alcohol-related crash, according to officials in the Southern California area. The accident happened around 5 p.m. at the intersection of Main and Pujol streets in Temecula, according to the Riverside County Fire Department said. The unidentified boy reportedly ran into the street from behind a parked […]
Posted on September 17, 2013
Authorities say a driver was intoxicated and speeding when he crashed his car into a guardrail on the 10 Freeway in Santa Monica, killing himself and injuring his two teenage passengers. The drunk driving accident was one of the worst in the past month in the Los Angeles area. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office […]
Posted on September 13, 2013
The Ohio man who confessed in an online video to driving drunk and causing a fatal wrong-way crash is “riddled with guilt” and, despite an initial not-guilty plea, is preparing to plead guilty in the case, his lawyer tells CBS News’ Crimesider. In the three-minute video posted last week, 22-year-old Matthew Cordle admitted he caused […]
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