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Cities have had to face the problem of illegal street racing for almost as long as cars became a part of our daily lives. In more recent years, however, California and other states are now dealing with the problem of street takeovers.  Street takeovers usually happen when a group of individuals and spectators decide to close down a street or intersection. While the traffic is at a halt, they perform...

Although motorcycles are in many ways more maneuverable, they are also smaller, lighter and there is very little to protect riders from the hazards of the road. Motorcyclists and their passengers are more at risk than the drivers and passengers of other types of vehicles.   Motorcyclists and their passengers are far more at risk than other motorists to severe injury or fatality than those in cars and trucks. The National...

More than 130 firefighters responded to a devastating warehouse fire at the world-famous Fisherman’s Warf in San Francisco last week. USA Today reports that the blaze happened on Saturday,  May 23rd at Pier 45.  According to San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson, Lt. Jonathan Baxter, the blaze engulfed the warehouse and was approximately the size of a football field.     The blaze threatened a WWII era ship the SS Jeremiah O'Brien. Firefighters...

Officials in Orange County report that a 70-year-old female bicyclist was struck and killed in Irvine on Monday, May 18th. According to the story appearing on the Orange County Register website, both the Irvine Police Department and the Orange County Fire Authority responded to the scene of the crash at Portola Parkway and the 261 Toll Road.  Officials say that the collision involving a bicyclist and a Mercedes Benz ML350....

Although there is likely to be less traffic on our streets and freeways over the Memorial Day weekend because of the current COVID-19 pandemic, NBC in Los Angeles reports that the CHP and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office will be intensifying patrols.  Their primary focus will be on keeping DUI and other unsafe drivers off the road over the holiday. According to the statement issued by CHP Commissioner, Warren Stanley, ...

If anything positive can be said to have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is that there are 75% fewer vehicle crashes and fatalities on California’s roads due to stay at home orders across the state. Because businesses were closed, events canceled, and tourism ground to a halt, California’s freeways, interstates, and streets were mostly empty. However, though the roads have been relatively safer due to the absence of vehicles,...

When a driver chooses to drive while under the influence of a substance, they are putting everyone on the road and their passengers in grave danger. Such was the case in a recent crash in San Jose. Authorities in San Jose have released the identity of the suspected DUI driver responsible for a fatal crash that happened on Highway 85 in South San Jose last week. The accident left four...

You would think that the fear of losing their job, not to mention possible jail time, would keep commercial drivers from committing hit-and-run. Nevertheless. that's what happened in an accident that happened in Fresno. Your Central Valley reported on the crash. Around 3:30 AM, a pickup truck crashed into an 18-wheeler and flipped onto its side. The crash happened near Orange Avenue and Central Avenue. The driver of the truck...

An explosion at a hash oil manufacturing business in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday has left 11 firefighters injured.  CBS News reports that the explosion and fire happened at approximately 6:30 p.m. at a one-story commercial building located 327 East Boyd Street in an area of the city known as the Toy District.  According to Fire Captain Erik Scott with the Los Angeles Fire Department, witnesses heard “one significant explosion”...

A woman was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after she crashed her vehicle into a tree along Highway 132 on Tuesday. The Union Democrat reported on its website that the crash occurred at approximately 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12th.  Kelsey Tishman, age 22, was driving a 1991 Dodge Dynasty and heading southbound along Highway 132, just west of  Bonds Flat Road near the Don Pedro Reservoir,...