Media agencies reported that a 21-year-old woman responsible for killing a man while driving and sending a text message has been banned for life from carrying a cell phone in her car. The unusual sentence was handed down as part of a plea bargain with prosecution in the effort of sparing her a possible 5-year prison sentence. The woman admitted to causing the death of the 80-year-old man from Glendale after striking him with her vehicle while he attempted to (read more)
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23
Aug
2011
Fatal Hit-and-Run Accident Closes Highway 76
Media sources reported that a woman in her late 20s was struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident while walking along State Route 76 Monday morning. According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), the 25-year-old Pauma Valley woman was walking alongside SR76 at approximately 3:30am when she was struck and killed by a 2002 Ford Taurus near Harolds Road. Witnesses stated that the driver swerved but was unable to avoid striking the woman. The vehicle left the scene and its (read more)
Read MoreNews reports indicate that the California Highway Patrol responded to multiple reports of a pedestrian accident on a freeway interchange Thursday night in Orange. According to authorities, CHP officers responded to a pedestrian being allegedly struck by a vehicle on the freeway interchange between westbound Highway 22 and northbound Highway 57 around 8:45pm Thursday. However, upon arrival, officers were unable to confirm whether a pedestrian was struck at that location. The CHP is aware that an individual was taken to (read more)
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20
Jul
2011
Sunnyvale Man Struck, Killed by Caltrain
News sources reported that a commuter Caltrain struck and killed a man that was on the tracks in Sunnyvale Tuesday evening, marking the fifth death for the railroad corridor in the past seven weeks. According to Caltrain officials, the accident happened when the southbound train struck the man at the Lawrence station in Sunnyvale around 6:45pm. The train was obeying the speed limit for the area and was not scheduled to stop at that particular station. The man’s identity was (read more)
Read MoreMedia sources indicated that a 24-year-old Long Beach woman is in critical condition after being struck in a hit-and-run accident Saturday morning. Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Lisa Massacani stated that the woman was crossing Broadway at Euclid Avenue around 1:50am Saturday morning when she was struck by a vehicle. The victim was discovered by police and emergency crews underneath a parked car and transported to a nearby hospital where she remains in critical condition. Massacani said, “She was most (read more)
Read MoreNews sources reported that the replica taxi used in the Canadian version of the game show “Cash Cab” hit and killed a pedestrian after production ended for the day in Vancouver Friday. According to Andrew Burnstein, president of Castlewood Productions Inc, the accident occurred while a producer was driving the cab back to its storage facility. Castlewood Productions Inc produces the Canadian version of the program. Vancouver Police Constable Lindsey Houghton said that authorities are still investigating the circumstances surrounding (read more)
Read MoreNews outlets reported that a passing car struck and injured a San Rafael woman while she was getting out of her vehicle in Kentfield Monday night. According to the California Highway Patrol, the 56-year-old woman was stepping out of her 2009 BMW, which was parked on Los Cerros Drive, just south of Almenar Drive on the western side, when a southbound 1993 Volvo struck her. The Volvo allegedly swerved to the right and hit the woman and her vehicle around (read more)
Read MoreNews reports indicate that a man sustained severe injuries when he was hit by a vehicle north of Rio Dell Monday night. According to official reports from the California Highway Patrol, he man got out of his girlfriend’s vehicle during a civil dispute and was walking away from the car along the shoulder of US Highway 101. A woman driving southbound in a Ford Fusion around 11:30pm did not see the man and struck him with her vehicle. CHP officials (read more)
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06
Jul
2011
Oroville Driver Strikes, Kills Jogger
Media sources stated that a 58-year-old woman was hit and killed while jogging on Clark Road near Steamboat Rock Road Tuesday morning. According to the California Highway Patrol, a 47-year-old driver from Oroville was southbound on Clark Road driving 55mph when she drifted onto the right shoulder and struck the jogger. CHP officials pronounced the woman dead at the scene. Another jogger, and distant neighbor of the victim, witnessed the accident, but mistook the loud thud she heard for tire (read more)
Read MoreNews sources report that an Arroyo Grande Police Officer struck a pedestrian Monday night, injuring them. The accident happened around 9pm when the Arroyo Grande officer, who has not been identified by the police department, was exiting a Chevron station on East Grand Avenue near Traffic Way. The officer had just finished aiding a California Highway Patrol officer in a traffic stop. The police cruiser struck the pedestrian when the officer was making a turn from West Branch Street onto (read more)
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