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It isn’t often that a law enforcement vehicle gets stolen during an arrest, but that’s just what happened during a pursuit in Antelope Valley on Tuesday.  KTLA reports that in the process of a suspected DUI driver, an officer with the California Highway Patrol (CHP) had his vehicle stolen by the suspect before he ran the cruiser off the road in the high desert. The pursuit began just after 5:00...

A trial involving a DUI driver involved in a multiple fatality crash in March of 2018 has just gotten underway in Huntington Beach last week. Patch.com reports that Bani Marcela Duarte, 29, of San Clemente is on trial after a night of bar hopping, consuming high amounts of alcohol and crashing her vehicle into the rear end of a Toyota Camry, killing three teens and leaving a fourth with second-degree...

One child was killed while two others were seriously wounded in an accident involving a teen driver this morning in Oxnard. FOX 11 in Los Angeles reports that the accident happened at approximately 78:40 a.m. on Monday, September 30th near the Ramona Elementary School, located at the intersection of Anita Avenue and Cooper Road when a woman and two children, a 9-year-old girl, and an 8-year-old boy were crossing the...

When finding another person in trouble, most people would do whatever they could to lend a hand.  That is precisely what one man did when he spotted a teen driver who had run out of gas on the 91 Freeway in Cerritos. This Good Samaritan’s kindness, however, ended tragically when he was struck and killed by a hit and run driver. KTLA in Los Angeles reports that on Sunday, September...

The United States Parachuting Association estimates that are some 3 million parachuting or skydiving jumps that occur each year. With only 21 of that figure ending in tragedy, the chance of a parachuting jump ending in a fatality is just 0.0007%. Even though the odds are so low, the worst can happen. KTLA in Los Angeles reports that a skydiver was killed when they landed in the middle of Highway...

No parent wants to have to worry about their child’s safety when sending them off to school. Most of the time, they can feel secure in knowing their child will be taken to school and back home again without incident or without getting into an accident. For the parents of nine children, however, that isn’t what happened on Wednesday morning in Inglewood. Television station KTLA in Los Angeles reported on...

Hundreds of people are either injured or killed in accidents which involve charter or other types of buses. According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) which oversees buses and bus safety for passengers in the United States, there are more than 10,000 bus crashes each year on an annual basis. KTLA in Los Angeles reports that several people were injured after a bus crash on the westbound 118...

An Orange County jury has found a San Clemente man guilty of second-degree murder after a crash on the 405 freeway that killed a 10-year-old girl in 2016. The Orange County Register reports that on August 15, 2016, Adam Kanas, 39 was driving northbound on the 405 freeway near Seal Beach Boulevard when he crashed his Chevy Tahoe into another vehicle in the express lane. Senior Deputy District Attorney Dan...

Accidents as the result of police chases are far more common than you might think. Severe and even fatal accidents are caused by police chases all because someone was in the wrong place at the wrong time. When police are in pursuit, there is often little thought of other innocent drivers or pedestrians. CBS affiliate KPIX reports that seems to be what happened in Redwood City on the morning of...

A head-on collision between a pickup truck and a laundry delivery truck in Fresno County near Fresno has left one motorist seriously injured. Your Central Valley recently reported on its website that the accident happened last week on the morning of Thursday, September 12th at approximately 6:00 a.m. on Elkhorn Avenue just east of Chateau Fresno Avenue. Dispatch for the California Highway Patrol (CHP) received a call at 5:56 a.m....