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A rollover crash on the 15 Freeway in the Temescal Valley area on Wednesday has left one person dead.  KTLA in Los Angeles reports that the single-vehicle crash happened when a teenage boy lost control of the northbound pickup truck he was driving.   A spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol (CHP) said that at approximately 12:30 p.m. Jace Towery, 19, was driving a silver 2004 Toyota Tacoma accompanied by his...

A suspected drunk driver that killed a family of three on Halloween night in Long Beach was arrested this Tuesday night. KTLA in Los Angeles reports that Carlo Adrian Navarro, 20, of Long Beach has been arrested on three counts of murder and gross vehicular manslaughter for his role in the deaths of Joseph Awaida, 30, Raihan Dakhil Awaida, 32, and their three-year-old son, Omar.  Investigators with the Long Beach...

Los Angeles Police Department officers have arrested two suspects after they ditched the vehicle they were driving the wrong way on the 110 Freeway on Monday Night. FOX11 in Los Angeles reports that LAPD officers were in pursuit of the suspects following an armed robbery of an SUV in South Los Angeles.  According to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department, the chase began near the intersection of McKinley...

When law enforcement departments have a DUI checkpoint, not surprisingly, it’s more than drunk drivers who get caught. The Press Democrat reports that on Friday, November 8th, the Santa Rosa Police Department set up a DUI checkpoint at Farmer’s Lane and Sonoma Avenue that yielded 22 arrests.  According to the Nixle alert issued by the Santa Rosa Police, those arrests included six drivers who were suspected of driving under the...

One person is dead after a crash along Interstate 80 in Solano County on Tuesday, November 5th, near Dixon. Investigators believe that impairment was a factor in the fatal accident. Patch.com reports that the accident happened at approximately 10:42 p.m. when an eastbound driver of a 2007 Honda Accord collided with a slower moving vehicle that he was attempting to pass.  California Highway Patrol Officer David Harvey told reporters that...

A fiery crash involving three vehicles and an allegedly impaired driver in Fresno County has left two people dead and a family in mourning. ABC 30 reported that the crash happened near the city of Tranquility on Wednesday, November 6th. Police and California Highway Patrol (CHP) investigators say that a Honda that was traveling on Colorado Road behind a Mercedes failed to brake when the driver of the Mercedes had...

A 21-year-old woman has been seriously injured and suffering from head trauma after she was struck by an SUV in Mira Mesa on Monday evening. On Thursday, October 31st, The Times of San Diego reported that the vehicle-pedestrian crash happened in the 9900 block of Camino Ruiz, located near Carroll Canyon Road at approximately 6:40 p.m. According to Sgt. Kevin Gibson, with the San Diego Police Department, a 2009 Lexus...

KFBK Radio in Sacramento reports that a second explosion from a gender reveal party, similar to the one that killed a 56-year-old grandmother last month in Marion County, Iowa occurred one day later and was felt as far as two miles away. According to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, 911 dispatch received a call at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, of an explosion that happened in the 3200 block of...

The San Luis Obispo Tribune recently reported that Oscar Renteria Corchado, 35, of Yuba City would not be facing any additional jail time for his role in an ATV crash in Oceana that killed another ATV rider. Corchado entered a plea of no contest at his trial in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court last week in charge of vehicular manslaughter in the death of Shawn Joseph Imlig, 37, after...

One person is dead, and an additional four people were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Tulare County. ABC 30 reports that the accident happened on Tuesday, October 20th, at approximately 6:00 p.m. off of State Highway 216 near Avenue 320.  A spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol said that Anmoldeep Singh was driving northbound on State Highway 216 when he attempted to pass another vehicle near Ivanhoe. While doing...