News sources say that a woman was killed in a single-vehicle rollover accident in Vacaville Friday night. The California Highway Patrol reported that the woman was driving northbound on Hartley Road near Robinson Road around 8:20pm when, for reasons unknown, her 1999 Mercedes veered off the road and crashed into a ditch. The vehicle struck a barbed wire fence before proceeding to flip multiple times. According to CHP Sgt. Jason Hekker, the woman was not wearing a seatbelt and was (read more)
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Jul
2011
Woman Dies in Single-Vehicle Vacaville Crash
A mother and her daughter sustained moderate injuries Monday evening in a single-vehicle crash when their car tumbled down an embankment in Rancho Cucamonga, report news sources. According to the California Highway Patrol, at about 4 p.m., a black Nissan Pathfinder went through a guardrail along the far-right side of the southbound 15 Freeway south of Arrow Route. The sport utility vehicle overturned several times as it plunged down an embankment. Emergency crews responded to the scene of the accident (read more)
Read MoreNews outlets reported that a woman and her unborn baby died after the woman’s vehicle veered off of an onramp to the 134 Freeway Sunday. According to California Highway Patrol Sgt. Chris Powell, the woman was traveling westbound on the 134 Freeway onramp at Victory Boulevard when her light blue Mazda sedan veered off the road to the right and struck a tree. Sgt. Powell said, “The vehicle struck a tree and (there) was major intrusion of the tree into (read more)
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Jul
2011
App Could Help Avoid Freeway Accidents, Deaths
According to news sources, a new app is set to be tested on California highways this summer in the effort of reducing freeway accidents by 40 percent. The team that developed the app at the University of Bologna (Italy) claims that, while it’s only been tested in computer simulations thus far, they’re confident of it’s good results. Marco Roccetti, professor of Internet architecture at the university, said, “Basically, what we are doing is placing cars in peer to peer communication.” (read more)
Read MoreA man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover accident early Saturday, morning report media sources. According to witness reports, just before 2 a.m. a 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse was traveling erratically, weaving back and forth on Country Club Drive. The driver of the car, a 48-year-old Madera man, appeared to lose control of the vehicle around Avenue 21 and Road 28 1/2 when the vehicle went off the south shoulder of Avenue 21, causing the vehicle to overturn several time. The (read more)
Read MoreMedia sources reported that a police officer of the Alhambra Police Department died Sunday when two police vehicles collided at the intersection of Main Street and Garfield Avenue while responding to a robbery around. The 26-year-old officer died after being transported to Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena around 6am. Officials have not released the information of the other officer involved in the crash, but he was listed in stable condition at Huntington Memorial. The two officers were responding to a (read more)
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Jul
2011
I-5 Multiple Vehicle Crash Kills 1
News reports indicate that at least one person was killed in a multiple vehicle collision Friday in the area surrounding Corning on Interstate 5. According to the California Highway Patrol, at least five vehicles were involved in the accident, including a white Chevrolet Suburban, a big rig, pickup towing a trailer and a Toyota Sienna minivan. The accident occurred just north of the Corning rest area in the northbound lanes of I-5 around 5pm. CHP Officials are unclear as to (read more)
Read MoreA man died and another was taken to the hospital Friday in the wake of a rollover accident on Highway 99 near Gridley, report news sources. According to the California Highway Patrol, at approximately 2:20 p.m. a truck was traveling on the highway at an unknown speed north of Gridley when, about a quarter mile north of Ord Ranch Road, the pickup fishtailed and left the road briefly. Authorities believe the truck’s driver then overcorrected and lost control of the (read more)
Read MoreTwo people were killed and another injured Friday afternoon in a multi-vehicle accident in unincorporated San Benito County, report news sources. According to the San Benito County Sheriff’s Department, the crash occurred on east of San Juan Bautista on Highway 156 near Lucy Brown Lane and involved two cars and a big rig. The three victims were all occupants of one of the cars. The two people who died were passengers and person who was injured was driving the car (read more)
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Jul
2011
Calabasas Accident Kills Motorcyclist
News sources reported that a motorcyclist was killed when he rear-ended a car on Highway 101 in Calabasas Saturday. According to California Highway Patrol Officer Christian Cracraft, the accident happened in the westbound lanes of the Ventura Freeway near Las Virgenes Road around 9:45pm. The 37-year-old Oxnard man was riding his 2003 Honda motorcycle in heavy freeway traffic when he collided with the rear of a 38-year-old Thousand Oaks woman’s vehicle. The impact of the collision ejected his from his (read more)
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