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Four people lost their lives on Wednesday shortly after their small aircraft took off from the Corona airport on Wednesday afternoon. KTLA in Los Angeles reports that the single-engine plane took off from the Corona Municipal Airport at around noon.  The plane went down near the east side of the airport that is located on Aviation Drive. Emergency crews, including the Corona Fire Department and the Corona Police Department, responded...

Los Angeles authorities believe that a hit-and-run crash on Sunday night in Temescal Valley that left three teenagers dead was caused intentionally by the suspect driver. ABC News reports that the crash happened at approximately 10:30 p.m. on a road located about 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles when a Toyota Prius carrying six teenaged boys was rammed by another vehicle.  The collision caused the Prius to go off the...

KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles reports that Curly Bunfill, winner of three purple hearts, had been a Hollywood stuntman and met Hayworth at a party. “Our eyes met and we danced," Bunfill told said. "She had all these cars, beautiful, beautiful cars. We danced around the cars.” While they were dancing, Rita Hayworth asked Bunfill which car she liked. He pointed to the Bermuda Blue one. When Hayworth died,...

Both AAA and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) hit and run collisions and fatalities have increased by more than 7 percent each year.  Of those who are killed in hit and run crashes, 65% are pedestrians. This data means that a hit and run collision in which someone is injured or killed happens somewhere in the U.S. every 43 seconds. Patch.com reported on its website last week that...

When a passenger vehicle gets into an accident with a commercial truck,  it’s usually the smaller vehicle that gets the most damage and the people inside that are more seriously hurt. Noozhawk of Santa Barbara reported on its website that such a crash happened along Highway 154 near San Marcos Pass on Thursday and sent three people to the hospital.  Fire Captain Daniel Bertucelli with the Santa Barbara County Fire...

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy from the Lakewood station is in critical condition after being struck by what officials believe was a driver who was behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol.  According to a report appearing on the KTLA website, the incident happened near the intersection of Downey Avenue and Alondra Boulevard after the LA County Sheriff’s department received a call regarding a man in the...

Approximately 60 people have been treated for skin irritation after a Delta jet dumped fuel as it flew over an area elementary school on Tuesday. NBC in Los Angeles reports that the incident happened during the school day when the plane passed over the Park Avenue Elementary School in the 8000 block of Park Avenue in Cudahy.   The school, which is located approximately 15 miles from LAX, 17 of the...

On our nation’s busy Interstate highways and freeways, a chain reaction crash can happen at any time. In many metropolitan areas, even a minor fender bender can lead to a multi-car crash in the blink of an eye. Moose 92 FM reported on its website that two such crashes happened earlier this month in Eastern Maine that involved as many as 60 vehicles, and in which 14 people were injured....

One man has died, and five teens were injured in a crash that happened on Route 905 near Otay Mesa. The San Diego Journal Tribune’s Alex Riggins reports that the fatal crash happened on the night of Tuesday, January 7th at approximately 9:15 p.m. at the Beyer Investigators with the California Highway Patrol say that the unidentified 21-year-old man had been speeding down an onramp TO SR 905 when he...

According to the most recent figures released by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) of the approximately 450,000 police-reported crashes in 2017, 4,657 involved one or more fatalities. Based on size alone, other motorists who are mostly in smaller vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians, are at a severe disadvantage when an accident happens. One such accident involving a passenger vehicle and two big rigs that happened near Westley has left...