News sources report that more than 140 local law enforcement agencies and the California Highway Patrol implemented their “Click It or Ticket” seatbelt enforcement campaign this week. The campaign focuses on a zero tolerance for those not properly secured in their vehicles. Though the seatbelt requirement law is always in effect, the campaign will focus between now and June 5 on issuing tickets to drivers not wearing a seatbelt, bypassing a warning for the offense. An emphasis will be placed (read more)
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May
2011
Fairfield Bus Crash Sends 13 to Hospital
Media sources reported that a bus traveling from Sacramento to San Francisco drove off of the freeway north of Fairfield, injuring more than a dozen people Monday. According to California Highway Patrol Sgt. Betsy Legg, the United Coach Tours bus was driving westbound on Interstate 80 around 4:30pm when it left the road. The bus was traveling in the fast, left, lane when, for unknown reasons, it traveled across the Interstate to the right lanes and shoulder, leaving skid marks, (read more)
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May
2011
CHP Takes Alleged Drunk Driver Into Custody
A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday morning after a rollover accident on Interstate 5 near Highway 162 for suspicion of drunken driving, according to a California Highway Patrol (CHP) press release. Investigators state that the man is being charged with driving at speeds in excess of the posted limit, under the influence of alcohol and talking on his cell phone when the crash occurred just before 11am. He faces charges for DUI and a citation for talking on a (read more)
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May
2011
Santa Rosa Bus Crash Injures 1
In a press release from the California Highway Patrol, Officer Steven Fricke stated that one person was injured when a school bus failed to yield to an oncoming minivan, causing the two to collide in Santa Rosa Thursday morning. The 2004 First Student Bus, containing the driver and one student, stopped at a red light on Guerneville Road at Ridley Avenue. When the light turned green, the bus turned left onto Ridley Avenue, but allegedly failed to yield to an (read more)
Read MoreA single-car accident on U.S. Highway 101 claimed the life of a 20-year-old McKinleyville woman south of Jitney Gulch Bridge on Tuesday. The 19-year-old driver sustained moderate injuries. In a press release, the California Highway Patrol stated that the 1994 Ford Ranger pickup truck was traveling northbound through heavy rainfall when the driver unsafely entered a left-hand curve and lost control of the vehicle. The pickup careened off of the west edge of the road, overturning. It then traveled 400 (read more)
Read MoreMedia sources have reported that a teenager was struck and killed by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) train while traveling on County Road 104 southeast of Tulelake on Wednesday just before 3pm. Patty Reeder, superintendent of the Tulelake Basin Joint Unified School District and principal at the teen’s high school, said that the victim, Alma Vidrio, a 2010 graduate, had just returned home from her first year at California State University. According to Reeder, Vidrio was alone in the (read more)
Read MoreA woman was injured when her vehicle rolled down an embankment and flipped onto it roof Sunday. California Highway Patrol Officer John Nevarez told media sources that the woman had been traveling south on U.S. Highway 199 just before 4:30pm when she lost control of her car while negotiating a turn near Hardscrabble Creek. Officer Nevarez said that the vehicle slid down the embankment, which is a distance of about 22 feet. According to Officer Nevarez, “It’s one of the (read more)
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May
2011
San Francisco Man Plunges Off I-80, Dies
News reports state that an 80-year-old man of South San Francisco plunged off westbound I-80 near the Hunter Hill rest stop outside of Vallejo. Reports from the California Highway Patrol indicate that the man was driving alone when he left the roadway. CHP Officer Craig Kuehl said that an initial investigation pointed towards a possible medical emergency that caused the man to leave the interstate. According to Kuehl, there were no skid marks and two witnesses told police that the (read more)
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May
2011
Crescent City Teen Ejected from Car, Injured
In a press release from the California Highway Patrol (CHP), officers reported that a 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse was driving west on Kings Valley Road containing four teenagers when it overturned near U.S. Highway 101. The CHP reported that the rollover accident was caused when the vehicle’s right side tires went off the north edge of the roadway, causing the driver to lose control and cross both lanes of traffic. The car then left the road on the southern edge and (read more)
Read MoreMedia sources say that the driver killed in an accident on Saturday in Sacramento has been identified as a 19-year-old Rio Linda grad by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. The woman was thrown from her vehicle after her SUV clipped a car while traveling eastbound on I-80 near I-5. Both the SUV and the car spun out of control. The passenger and driver of the car were not harmed. However, the SUV struck the I-80 median and rolled. The woman (read more)
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