Automobile Accidents

• Little Girl Dies After Running Across Highway

  Shannon Weidemann | June 30, 2007 7:44 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  Two sisters ran across Highway 1 in Davenport when one was hit by a truck and killed. The victim was a 3-year-old girl. She was trying to get to her father on the other side of the road. The pedestrian accident happened on Wednesday night. The accident happened at 7:47 p.m. when the girl, her older sister and their mother were walking back to town from Davenport Beach. The two girls darted...

• Elderly Driver Crashes Into Building

  Shannon Weidemann | March 28, 2007 1:11 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A 93-year-old driver from Corona drove her car into a print shop on Thursday. She was trying to back out of a parking space and had her car in drive instead of reverse. The glass and window frame of the store were broken and bent, but no serious damage was done. Lauren Tracy, who works at the shop, said Avery seemed to be trying to back out of a parking spot around 1 p.m. with her emergency...

• Lakeport School Bus in Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | September 14, 2007 8:37 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A school bus for the Lakeport Unified School District was involved in a minor car accident while trying to make a wide right turn on Monday afternoon. A Chevrolet Camaro was the other vehicle in the accident. The school bus driver was named the School Bus Driver of the Year by the California Highway Patrol for his safe driving record. "The school bus was far to the left, preparing to make a...

• Houston Boy Injured in Pedestrian Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | August 28, 2007 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  An 11-year-old boy from Houston was injured in a pedestrian accident on Long Point on Friday evening. The boy had run out into the street where he was hit by a pickup truck. His injuries were severe and he was flown by helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Guevara was driving a Chevrolet pickup in the left lane of the road way when the accident occurred.Investigators do not believe...

• CHP Request: Fatality Free 4th of July

  IB Contributor | July 06, 2007 11:59 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  The California Highway Patrol Commissioner, Mike Brown, issued a challenge to the state's motorists for the Independence Day holiday. "We are asking all motorists to be extra careful and courteous this Fourth of July," was Brown's request. With a "maximum enforcement" effort on the part of the CHP, Brown was hoping for a traffic fatality free day. We have had only three days without a...

• California Woman Killed in Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | June 18, 2007 1:46 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A woman from California visiting friends in Michigan was killed when she caused a car accident. She stopped at an intersection and then proceeded to drive into the path of a pickup truck. Trooper Gerald Bockhausen of the State Police's Richmond Post said police still are investigating the accident, but determined Middel was at fault.Bockhausen said the driver of the truck and witnesses both...

• Camp Pendelton Pedestrian Killed

  Shannon Weidemann | May 08, 2007 3:16 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A man from Canada walking near Camp Pendelton was killed after being hit by a semi-truck. The 31-year-old pedestrian was walking on Interstate 5 when he was hit. The accident was reported at 4:41 p.m. on the northbound I-5, just north of a rest area. It is possible that the truck driver never saw the victim, and the driver appears to have done nothing wrong, a CHP officer told broadcast...

• Car Accident Kills Man in Long Beach

  Shannon Weidemann | August 06, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A 23-year-old man from Compton was killed in a single car accident in Long Beach last week. He was the one driving the car that also contained a female passenger. The victim was driving southbound on Cherry Avenue in a green 1993 Jeep Cherokee when he drove up onto a raised center median, struck a tree and spun 190 degrees before coming to a rest with all four tires on the median, Pratt said....

• Man Hits 24 Cars in Long Beach

  Shannon Weidemann | June 23, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A man believed to be driving under the influence of alcohol hit 24 cars on a Long Beach street before he finally stopped his truck. He also hit and injured two people during the car accident spree. The string of car accidents happened in Belmont Heights in February. According to a police report, Wecksler told officers he had been drinking while playing poker with some friends but contended a...

• Long Beach Florist Shop Hit by Car

  Shannon Weidemann | June 02, 2007 12:31 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A flower shop in Long Beach was hit by a car on Thursday morning critically injuring the driver of the car. No one at the florist was injured in the car accident. The driver's legs were pinned under the dashboard of her car. Some witnesses said they saw a white truck in the No. 3 lane of Lakewood Boulevard at the time of the crash, said Accident Investigations Detective Ray Dennison of the...