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The California Highway Patrol (CHP) was in pursuit of an SUV on Wednesday, August 28th in Capitola. The chase ended with six teens being seriously injured when their vehicle crashed. Patch.com reported on their website that CHP officers attempted to make a routine traffic stop of a 2002 GMC Yukon near 41st Avenue and Gross Road just before 3:00 a.m. Authorities say that the driver of the vehicle, however, refused...

The California Highway Patrol is blaming a possible ejection for why there was a delay in finding the victim in a crash off a 300-foot cliff in Santa Cruz last week. CBS Local in San Francisco reported on its website that on Sunday, August 25th at approximately 3:00 p.m. Monterey County Sheriff’s Department deputies recovered a vehicle that had drove off a cliff on Highway 1 near Big Sur. A...

Two men are dead after an incident of illegal street racing gone wrong at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend.KTVU reports that the fatal crash happened at approximately 6:25 p.m. on Saturday, August 31st in San Jose when the driver of a Jeep lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a tree.A spokesperson for the San Jose Police Department said in a statement that initial investigations reveal that...

A crash on the Oakdale-Waterford Highway on Wednesday, August 28th has left three people dead and two others injured. The Modesto Bee reports that the crash happened at approximately 9:50 p.m. between Milnes Road and Ellenwood Road. California Highway Patrol Officer Tom Olsen told reporters that the CHP in Modesto received a report of a head-on collision in Stanislaus County. CHP officers arrived on the scene where a 2010 Chevrolet...

Authorities have identified the victim of a suspected DUI crash involving two vehicles that happened in Long Beach last week. The Orange County Register reported on their website that the accident happened in the early morning hours of Sunday, August 18th at approximately 2:40 a.m. when Osvaldo Ramirez-Vasquez was driving his 1999 Lincoln Town Car eastbound on the Pacific Coast Highway at an excessive rate of speed. Ramirez-Vasquez lost control...

Authorities have released the identity of an ATV rider who was killed in an accident earlier this month in Santa Barbara. Edhat.com of Santa Barbara reported on their website that the California Highway Patrol had identified Nicholas Lee Bozenich, 36, of Santa Barbara as the sole victim in the weekend crash. The fatal crash happened at approximately 10:025 p.m. on Friday, August 16th when Bozenich and a passenger were riding...

Air travel has become safer over the years, but as with any other type of vehicle, accidents can still happen. For 10 people who were on board a twin-engine Cessna jet that slid off the runway in Oroville; however, what might have otherwise ended in tragedy, everyone escaped without injury. The Los Angeles Times reported that on Wednesday, August 21st, the small jet was taking off from the Oroville Municipal...

A multi-vehicle fiery crash in Camarillo has left one person dead and two additional people injured. KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles reported on its website that the accident happened on the morning of Wednesday, August 21st at approximately 7:45 a.m. when a motorcyclist and an 18-wheeler collided on Pleasant Valley Road just north of Las Posas Street. The third vehicle in the accident, a sedan, was also involved in...

A woman who pleaded guilty to charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence of alcohol in an accident that happened nearly two years ago has been sentenced to eight years in prison. KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles recently reported that according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office, on October 13, 2017, just before 7:20 p.m., Maia Yasmine James, 22, drove her vehicle into...

A car crashing through a glass window in a small business in a South Bay strip mall in National City has left multiple people injured on Tuesday afternoon. KUSI in San Diego reports that the incident happened at approximately 2:00 p.m. at the Pho Cow 7 Vietnamese restaurant located in the 1000 block of Highland Avenue. The driver of a Lexus sedan crashed their vehicle through the ground to ceiling...