Category: Auto – Car Accidents

A multi-vehicle accident in severe white-out conditions recently left one man dead and more than a dozen hospitalized for their injuries in the high Sierra.  The accident involved more then forty vehicles, including six big rigs.  The accident caused a complete shut down on Interstate 80 near Yuba Gap, 70 miles east of Sacramento. According [...]

A Clearlake Oaks woman was traveling with her husband and eight-month-old daughter when an accident occurred in Santa Rosa, leaving the woman and her baby seriously injured. The accident involved alcohol on the part of Faustina Vega Xicohtencati, who was driving the Ford pickup truck that struck the victims Mercury Mountaineer.  The woman and baby [...]

A 20-year-old woman driving a Toyota Celica set a multi-vehicle crash in motion in Los Angeles that ended with four people being injured.  The crash involved three other cars, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. The woman driving the Toyota veered off to the right, striking a white Honda after being unable to stop [...]

A Los Angeles crash that involved at least eight vehicles including a big rig recently took the life of one person.  This accident took place on the 101 freeway, leaving several people injured.  According to the CHP, at least one big rig was involved in the fatal crash.  Right now, it is unclear what set [...]

Recently, the NHTSA has released information about the number of teen deaths related to driving accidents in California and around the country.  This is part of an effort to increase awareness in the public about trends emerging, which is found by analyzing accident statistics.  According to this newly released information, about 1/5th of all traffic [...]

Several people were injured recently when the driver of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bus lost control and struck the center divider before crashing into a car.  The accident took place in Silver Lake in Los Angeles County on Glendale Boulevard according to the Los Angeles Times. Several of the passengers aboard the bus were injured [...]

In California, National Teen Driver Safety Week began on October 19th and continued through October 25th, and California auto accident lawyers are thankful that stronger initiatives have been taken to promote safe driving among teens.  This action was established in 2007 by Congress, and its purpose is to educate teen motorists on the dangers of [...]

Devin Petelski, 25, was killed last week when she pulled out from a stop sign in front of a Los Angeles Police Department cruiser.  This accident has created quite a buzz in the area, and left witnesses to the accident questioning the LAPD’s version of what occurred. Ms. Petelski, according to the Los Angeles Times, [...]

An alleged drunk driving accident that occurred in Carlsbad California (near San Diego) took the life of a Cape Cod motorcyclist recently.  According to WBZ TV, two cyclists were stopped at an intersection red light when one was hit by a car that was driven by Keith Roles of Poway.  The accident took place at [...]

Back in August, a Casitas Springs woman, Susan Herman, and her dog were crossing the street when they were struck by a car that was being driven by a 16 year old.  Herman died of her injuries later at the hospital.  At that time, the 16 year old boy, who did stop after the accident [...]

Over two years ago a woman driving an SUV, along with five of her passengers, was killed when her car was hit by an oncoming train on the railroad tracks at Claribel Road and Terminal Avenue. At this particular railroad crossing, there is a stop sign at which the woman stopped her car at the [...]

Recently in Hollister, California, a young man was sadly killed in a terrible California truck accident that could have been easily avoided.  The man was traveling along HWY 152 in California and the driver was cut off by a large semi that was making an illegal u-turn. The man wasn’t able to stop in time [...]

In the past ten years in California, there have been thousands of cases of drunk driving accidents in which victims were either seriously injured with lifelong, debilitating wounds or killed as a result of the crash. Recently in the area of Yuba County, one drunk driver was sentenced to over 60 years in prison because [...]

Last weekend, there were likely a number of people killed in drunk driving accidents in California. One of these incidents occurred when a nurse was killed by a drunk driver on her way home from work. The young woman was only 26 years old and had been working as a nurse at a local hospital [...]

Recently a resident of San Jose, California died as a result of dangerous road conditions. The resident was making her way to work when her car went off a ramp used for boats and landed in an inlet within the Alameda city limits. The boat ramp had not been secured by the city of Alameda [...]

In San Mateo County, California, a woman recently incurred very serious injuries due to an accident caused by an oncoming vehicle. The woman’s injuries were so severe because she was not actually in a car when the accident occurred. She was standing outside of a market with her daughter and a number of other young [...]

Nick Adenhart, a promising young pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels, was killed recently in a car accident. The accident, which was caused by a drunk driver, occurred only hours after the Angels won a home game. Adenhart was out with friends that night, likely celebrating his success and the success of his teammates, when [...]

It may be pretty shocking to most people, there have been hundreds of bus accidents that have occurred in the state of California over the past decade, injuring most and killing many of the passengers. Los Angeles & San Diego Bus accidents can occur because of a variety of reasons. Perhaps a bus driver was [...]

Rollover accidents are, on average, more likely to happen when one is driving a sports utility vehicle than when one is driving a smaller vehicle, such as a sedan or coupe. In fact, SUV rollovers are approximately twice as likely to occur as small car rollovers. This is particularly true in the westernmost, hill-laden portion [...]

Although bus accidents do not occur nearly as often as automobile accidents, the number of bus accident injury victims still reaches well into the thousands every year in Los Angeles and San Diego, California. Also, as the need for greater fuel efficiency and money-saving techniques is rising all the time, more and more people are [...]