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A domestic that happened early Monday morning is being cited as being the cause of an incident that caused a crash into a San Diego cemetery and has left a woman injured. The Los Angeles Times reports that the incident happened on Monday, August 19th at approximately 2:00 a.m. a vehicle crashed through the gates of Home of Peace Cemetery located at 38th Street and Imperial Avenue. Officer Billy Hernandez...

Summer is the time that most motorcyclists will take to the open road. It’s when most people to take advantage of the warmer weather and vacation time from work. Ask any motorcyclist, and they will tell you that there’s just something about the open road that’s like no other feeling in the world. Unfortunately, however, thousands of people are seriously injured or killed in accidents involving motorcycles every year. The...

A chain-reaction crash along the westbound lanes of Highway 50 on Monday, August 12th in Sacramento has left the Sacramento City College President seriously injured.Fox 40 in Sacramento reports that Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in a statement to the media that Sacramento City College President, Michael Gutierrez, 50, was among those who were injured in the crash.The California Highway Patrol (CHP) said that the accident involved multiple vehicles. It...

Residents of a neighborhood located in the Barrio Logan area are saying that they are being overrun by commercial trucks that are illegally using their streets to get to their routes faster. KUSI in San Diego recently reported that truck traffic that happened in the early morning hours on Friday shows just why truck traffic is prohibited in the historic neighborhood. According to Officer Tony Martinez with the San Diego...

A horrific crash in Lancaster has left four people and two dogs dead on Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of West Avenue H and 30th Street West. KTLA 5 in Los Angeles reports that another driver witnessed the crash that happened just after noon. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that the driver of a Toyota Avalon traveling westbound on West Avenue H...

A California Highway Patrol (CHP) recently suffered moderate injuries after having been hit by debris he was attempting to clear from the roadway on the Lemon Grove Freeway The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the accident happened at approximately 10:30 p.m. when the CHP officer stopped traffic in the eastbound lanes of Route 94 near the College Avenue exit ramp. East County CHP spokesman Officer Travis Garrow told reporters in...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) estimates that only 3 percent of all traffic fatalities in the US can be attributed to wrong-way crashes. According to the NTSB, there are several reasons why someone might end up going the wrong way on our freeways and interstates the confusion of an inexperienced or elderly driver or a poorly lit road or inadequate signing. The most common cause of wrong-way crashes is...

The men and women who protect and serve us through the different agencies of law enforcement in our country go through rigorous training. That training includes how to keep the peace, deal with all kinds of different situations and emergencies. But in every law officer’s career, there will undoubtedly be some situations that weren’t covered in the academy. Such an incident came up for a Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy in...

A three-vehicle crash along Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) or U.S. Highway 1 on July 26th resulted in the death of a man whose vehicle was plunged over an embankment and caught fire near Lompoc.  KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles reports that the man killed in the crash was 50-year-old Patrick Neisinger of Lompoc. Neisinger was driving his 1995 Toyota Corolla Southbound on PCH when he became impatient with a...

A man has been arrested after a series of car thefts and high-speed chases that spread over three Southern California Counties. The Orange County Register reports that on the morning of Monday, August 5th at approximately 9:45 a.m. an officer with the California Highway Patrol pulled over a motorist in Riverside County.   While being cited, the man stole the CHP patrol cruiser, crashing it in a residential neighborhood north of...