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Sometimes a vehicle part gets recalled before anything bad happens thanks to some sharp-eyed engineer or quality control professional. For a lot of recalls, it takes a pattern of deaths and injuries before they'll claim responsibility. One husband is fighting for justice after his wife was killed by an alleged flaw in Range Rovers. CBS reports. The victim owned a 2017 Range Rover SUV. This model uses a dial to...

Rip currents are an extremely dangerous phenomenon at some beaches. Due to the layout of the land, the ocean can create a current that pulls you well away from shore before you know it. Most beaches with strong rip currents have warning signs telling swimmers to stay away or use caution. One widow of a professional wrestler is suing the state and the City of Los Angeles after husband's death...

If you’ve ever been involved in a car accident, be it major or minor, you know that it often happens in a flash. In movies, especially action dramas, time seems to slow down during a crash, time often behaves in the opposite manner for those that experience it in real life. Most involved in an accident don’t even remember how it happened. It’s as if time skipped for them. But,...

In the blink of an eye, a quiet drive down the relatively quiet nighttime streets of Los Angeles can become a tossup between life and death. A single misjudgment, a lapse in concentration at just the wrong second, or the reckless actions of someone that is driving under the influence can transform an otherwise unnoteworthy drive into a tragedy. Last Saturday night, such a moment of life and death happened...

On the busy freeways of Los Angeles, it's easy for cars to get tangled up in an existing accident. Sometimes this is because they can't move out of the way in time thanks to surrounding traffic. Sometimes it's because of a lack of attention. When multi-car pileups happen, it makes it difficult to determine fault in civil cases. One accident that left two dead is going to leave insurance companies...

A chain reaction of two multi-car accidents last Monday evening, leading to 6 people being injured. Two were hospitalized for their injuries, while four others had injuries that were minor enough to not need hospitalization. The incident happened at bout 8:10 p.m. north of 23rd Street, near the Carson exit, according to this report from The Daily Breeze. It all started with a GMC pickup truck that had been stopped...

It’s usually bad form to find humor in something as potentially serious as a car accident. After all, such collisions can easily prove fatal to someone involved, be that a driver, a passenger, or even a pedestrian, an innocent bystander simply walking in the wrong place at the wrong time. On top of that, even a seemingly simple accident can cause injuries that will result in unpaid time off from...

Sometimes it's the most bizarre and unforeseeable of accidents that end with tragedy. What started as a broken rope, as two men tried to two one SUV with another, ended in horror as the two men were violently pinned between the two vehicles. As a result, one of them died. These two men were traveling along Central Avenue last Thursday night around 11:44 p.m., one SUV pulling another by a...

Tow truck drivers have a very dangerous profession. They have to rescue wrecked cars from any road, sometimes blocking traffic to do so. They have to walk around all sides of a vehicle to hook up chains and straps to pull out vehicles. To aid them in this task, tow trucks are allowed to flash amber lights as a warning to drivers. By law, drivers are required to treat these...

Tow truck drivers have to deal with the aftermath of crashes all the time. This often involves interaction with the police. That's what makes this next case so strange. Patch reports. According to the report, there was a wreck in El Cajon at Jamacha Road near Main Street in the late afternoon. A tow truck was hauling two vehicles and made a sudden turn, colliding with another vehicle traveling in...