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A police chase involving a stolen work vehicle that collided with an SUV in Van Nuys yesterday has left a female driver and her baby boy injured. NBC in Los Angeles reports that the truck was reported stolen from a roofing crew in Redlands on Wednesday, December 2nd at approximately 1:00 p.m. when the thief stole a set of car keys from one of the roofers.  The stolen vehicle driver...

A single-vehicle collision along Topanga Cayon Boulevard in Malibu sparked a brush fire and mass power outages on Monday night. The fire consumed approximately two acres. The Patch.com reports that the crash happened on Monday, November 30th, about 2.5 miles from  Pacific Coast Highway, a white sedan struck a power pole along Topanga Canyon Boulevard near Grandview.  The power pole fell, downing power lines and causing an electrical box to...

A Southern California family is mourning the tragic loss of a father and his two young children killed in a fiery crash involving a drunk driver on Friday night.  CBS affiliate station KCAL reports that the crash happened in San Bernardino on Friday, November 27th at approximately 11:45 p.m. when 31-year-old Tavea Tarlton was driving his Toyota Camry from his mother’s home. With him were his four children, 4-year-old Elizah...

There are many ways someone can get hurt on the job, even when at-work safety is a priority.  Six workers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Eastvale were sent to the hospital after being exposed to an "unknown substance" at the facility. Newsweek reports that the incident happened at approximately 4:38 p.m. on Saturday, November 28th.  Firefighters with the Cal Fire/ Riverside County Fire Department evacuated 150 workers from the...

Few things can be more tragic than the death of a child.   KTLA reports that a man suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol is being blamed for the death of a  2-year-old toddler who was killed in a car crash in Palmdale. According to the report that appeared on the website on Friday, 26-year-old Devon Devere Dorsey of California city was allegedly driving a vehicle while intoxicated...

After an accident on Friday, November 20th where a truck carrying some 50,000 pounds of cookie batter overturned on the 15 freeway near the El Cajon Pass, another tanker truck hauling milk overturned on the 5 Freeway, spilling some of its load onto the roadway. Yahoo News reports the accident took place in the Boyle Heights area on Tuesday, November 24th, at approximately 6:00 a.m. when the driver first pulled...

A crash along the Harbor Freeway near the 105 Freeway interchange in the Vermont Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles early Monday morning has left three people dead and two others critically injured. My News LA reports that the fatal crash happened at approximately 12:14 a.m.  A young woman and two teens were killed when a 2009 Nissan Altima drifted off the pavement and crashed into several attenuator barrels within the...

A three-vehicle crash in Pacific Palisades in the early morning hours on Saturday has left one person dead and three other people critically injured. According to the story appearing on the Patch.com website, the fatal crash happened at approximately 3:38 a.m. on Saturday, November 21st in the 17800 block of Pacific Coast Highway.  In two separate statements, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Officer Jeffrey Lee and Brian Humphrey with the...

Over the last few years, there has been a sharp uptake in the number of motor vehicle attacks in the United States.  NPR reported that at least 50 reported vehicular attacks where a car was turned into a weapon.  In half of the attacks taking place from May to June, the motive behind the attacks was unknown. Yahoo News reports that such an incident happened in Anaheim on Thursday when...

For those who get behind the wheel after consuming alcohol, the price for drinking and driving can be high. Not only do they take the chance of getting into an accident, facing arrest, fines, and loss of license, they also can end up harming themselves and others. That has proven to be the case for Bernardo Alvarez Zalpa, 51, of Costa Mesa, after he pleaded guilty to the felony charges...