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An accident at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana has resulted in the death of a maintenance worker. NBC News reports that the accident happened Tuesday, February 19th in the late morning near Gate 3. Two workmen were performing maintenance on a tire for a jet bridge that is used to connect jets to the airport terminal. During the process of disassembling the wheel to maintain it, the...

Maybe it is our all-too-human instinct to fight or flee when we know that we’ve done something terrible. While the consequences of getting into trouble behind the wheel are something no one wants to go through, its’ almost unbelievable that anyone would knowingly harm another and then simply drive away. This is especially true if the other person was a child. Patch recently reported that Santa Rosa Police have arrested...

There has been a great deal in the news about the crisis at our southern border and crackdowns on illegal immigration by border our border patrol and law enforcement agencies around the country. Everyone wants to keep our borders safe, but sometimes accidents can come as a direct result of a seemingly unrelated situation. According to a news story reported on the Patch.com website, that seems to be what might...

We take for granted the idea that anytime anyone gets behind the wheel and takes to our roadways that they’ll do so responsibly. Unfortunately, not everyone will follow the rules of the road. Whittier Daily News reported on their website about the multi-vehicle crash that happened at approximately 2:50 a.m. while two CHP officers were assisting a motorist whose vehicle had stalled on the freeway. On Tuesday, February 19th, five...

A truck driver who struck and killed a woman who was trapped in her vehicle will stand trial for his role in her death in 2016. KSEQ News Channel 3 in Palm Springs recently reported on their website about a February 7, 2016, fatal crash that happened along Interstate 10 that occurred near Indio. The rest of the passengers had escaped after Maria Vera’s Volkswagen Jetta overturned, but she remained...

Southern California motorists are no strangers to dangerous road conditions. We have some of the highest concentrations of traffic in the U.S. and with more drivers on the road, the chance of getting into an accident naturally increases. Even when drivers follow all of the rules of the road, accidents can happen anyway. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in its most recent report, nearly 4,000 people lost...

The California Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a man found guilty of second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter that happened nearly four years ago in Pomona. As reported on the MyNewsLA.com website, Michael Daniel Gardner was found guilty in 2017 for his role in the death of a 32-year-old nurse, Marissa Leigh Vasquez. On May 17, 2015, as Vasquez was on her way to work, her...

Teen drivers are not just more inexperienced than other drivers, they are far more prone to take dangerous risks that most other drivers don’t and are much more likely to get into an accident. One such incident unfolded recently in Stockton with tragic results and has left one man dead. KCRA reported that on the morning of Friday, February 8th at approximately 3:00 a.m., a teen driver led California Highway...

Dealing with a bad fuel pump can be both frustrating and expensive. It’s not unusual for such repairs to run into a thousand dollars or even more. In a story which appeared last week on the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, automaker, Honda said that it was voluntarily recalling almost a half-million vehicles. The recall comes after the company determined potential fuel pump issues for sedans, SUV’s, crossovers from model...

In 2012, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a special report on wrong-way driving. According to the report, wrong-way collisions account for approximately just 3% of all accidents on our roadways each year. However, wrong-way crashes which occur on U.S. divided highways are among the most dangerous types of crashes because they are much more likely to result in either serious injuries or fatalities. The federal agency has concluded...