A Chevrolet dealer may be now accused of malicious prosecution, defamation and abuse of process after a car buyer was sent to the prison after signing a contract for a car that was being sold for $5,600 less than what the original price was. According to the news agencies covering this case, the dealer called the police for the car buyer after he refused to sign another contract that would force him to pay the $5,600 difference. He accused the man of (read more)
Read More
16
Aug
2012
Police Pursuit Leads To Crash, Drivers Injured
News agencies reported that a patch of both north and south East 14th Street was shut down after a pursuit that was followed by a crash. According to the news, the police chased a Honda Accord after it failed to stop after the police attempted to pull it over. The vehicle rammed into the back of a pickup truck as a result of the chase. The pickup truck driver sustained minor injuries and the driver of the Honda Accord was (read more)
Read MoreAccording to a number of articles, a 21-year-old Virginia woman has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and texting while driving, local police say. The authorities stopped this particular suspect on June 24th at 3:50 a.m. because she was driving on the wrong side of the road. According to the troopers, the driver told police that she was unaware that she had veered to the left lane because she had been texting. She was also charged with (read more)
Read More
08
Nov
2011
CHP Arrests Man After Highway 199 Accident
News sources reported that a 47-year-old Crescent City man was taken into custody by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) on charges on driving under the influence causing bodily injury, driving with a suspended license and reckless driving after being involved in a multiple-vehicle accident on US Highway 199 Wednesday evening. According to the CHP, the 47-year-old man was traveling in his Honda CRX on Highway 199 at speeds in excess of 75 mph at roughly 5:30pm when he passed a (read more)
Read More
25
Oct
2011
Man Dies in Severe Bakersfield Car Accident
The truck driver fled the car accident scene on foot but was apprehended and arrested shortly thereafter by Bakersfield police officers. Alcohol use suspected.
Read MoreMedia sources reported that two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies sustained moderate injuries after a DUI driver struck their vehicle Saturday in Malibu. According to Sheriff’s Lt. Josh Thai, the two deputies had just finished a safety sweep along Malibu beach when they returned to their vehicle, which was parked on the shoulder of the Pacific Coast Highway. A BMW driven by a 44-year-old man struck the rear of their vehicle after the deputies were inside and sent the vehicle (read more)
Read MoreNews outlets reported that a 26-year-old Crescent City woman overturned her vehicle while allegedly drunk driving, ejecting her 5-year-old female passenger Tuesday night. According to the California Highway Patrol, the 26-year-old was traveling south on Lower Lake Road near Morehead Road at an unknown high rate of speed when she lost control of her SUV. At approximately 11:40pm, her vehicle left the edge of the road, struck a fence and overturned, coming to rest on its roof. The force of (read more)
Read More
28
Jul
2011
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested for DUI
News outlets indicated that a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was taken into custody after he collided with another vehicle, then fled the scene of the accident while allegedly under the influence of alcohol. According to the California Highway Patrol, the 45-year-old deputy was charged this week under the suspicion of driving with a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit and under the influence of another drug in a January accident. Prosecutors say that the deputy struck another car (read more)
Read MoreMedia sources reported that three juveniles were taken into custody following a short pursuit by Merced County Sheriff’s deputies in Planada late Wednesday night. According to Deputy Tom MacKenzie, a sheriff’s office spokesman, the incident occurred at about 11pm Wednesday when deputies responded to several reports of shots being fired in the vicinity of Broadway and Cabrillo Street. Deputies tried to pull the vehicle over, but the driver would not stop. The following pursuit reached speeds of about 90mph, but (read more)
Read MoreAccording to news sources, a 27-year-old woman was arrested on DUI charges after fleeing the scene of a hit and run accident in Redding Wednesday evening. Redding Police Department officers responded to a report of a hit and run accident on northbound Market Street at Grange Street in Redding around 7:45pm Wednesday. At the scene, they discovered a 68-year-old Redding man that stated he was stopped at a red light on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle when he was rear-ended by a (read more)
Read More