Posts tagged Car Accidents

• Man Killed After Car Falls in Long Beach

  Shannon Weidemann | March 13, 2007 12:55 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A man from Hawaiian Gardens lost control of his vehicle and drove down a 59-foot embankment in Long Beach. The 32-year-old man was killed. His passenger was uninjured. The single-car accident occurred at about 8:39 p.m. Saturday on Wardlow Road, west of the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway, said Officer Jason Evans, Long Beach Police Department spokesman. The 2001 Ford Mustang was traveling...

• Pismo Beach Car Accident Kills Woman

  Shannon Weidemann | February 27, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 72-year-old woman from Bakersfield was killed when the car she was a passenger in plunged down a cliff at Pismo Beach. The car was driven by the victim's husband. It took rescue crews an hour to get both people out of the car. Witnesses said the car was in the parking lot at the Pelican Point restaurant in Pismo Beach when the driver apparently lost control. They said he was trying to park...

• Long Beach SUV Accident

  IB Contributor | February 19, 2007 8:35 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Volvo SUV lands on its roof.The driver of a silver Volvo SUV lost control of his vehicle on the San Diego Freeway (405), went off the freeway, overturned and landed in a drainage ditch, Fire Capt. Mike Duree reported, according to the Long Beach Press Telegram. The apparent single vehicle auto accident occurred in the southbound lanes of the 405 Freeway near Redondo Avenue.Rescue personal used...

• New Safety Requirements For Minivans

  IB Contributor | February 11, 2007 3:18 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced this week that it is revising safety requirements to require sliding doors on minivans to have a second latch. The change is designed to prevent doors from opening during crashes so that motorists not wearing a seatbelt are not thrown out of the vehicle. People most as risk of being thrown through the open sliding door of a...

• Parents Held Responsible For Babysitter's Fatal Auto Accident

  IB Contributor | February 09, 2007 10:12 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to a recent decision by the 3rd District Court of Appeals, you could be liable for your babysitter's actions.An eighteen year old babysitter's employers, William and Lori Kumbalek were sued, because Michael, the babysitter, while driving their youngest son home from day care, ran a stop sign while talking on his cell phone. The 18 year-old babysitter hit another car , killing Scott...

• $50 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Brandy

  IB Contributor | February 06, 2007 1:24 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The family of a woman who died after being rear-ended on the freeway by singer-actor Brandy Norwood, filed a $50 million civil lawsuit against the entertainer last week according to an article on Billboard.com.The lawsuit alleges that Brandy was driving recklessly when her Land Rover struck the back of a Honda driven by Awatef Aboudihaj" on Dec. 30.The thirty-eight year old Los Angeles...

• Flying Debris On Freeway Proves Fatal

  IB Contributor | February 04, 2007 8:11 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Spilled Load Leads To Freeway DeathThe news of his wife's death devastated Alvin Austin and his two children. Beverly and Alvin had been married 23 years and had two children. He was grief-stricken. He was numb and in shook. Beverly and Alvin had lunch together just a few hours earlier. Now he was sick to his stomach. Alvin was also mad, really mad. He was mad at the negligence of the...

• Construction Crane Falls Onto San Diego Freeway

  IB Contributor | February 02, 2007 8:13 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Ensuing auto accident injures two and closes freeway.A construction site crane fell into the northbound San Diego Freeway, I-405, triggering a collision between a big-rig and an SUV. The truck swerved to avoid the crane boom and collided with the SUV, resulting in minor injuries to the drivers of the vehicles, according to KGET.com.The crane operator was pulled from the crane cab conscious and...

• Man Speeding, Fatally Crashes into Stalled Vehicle

  Christina Cole | January 28, 2007 12:46 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 24-year-old man was killed on the Artesia (91) Freeway in Bellflower after he crashed into a stalled vehicle that was involved in a previous accident, said the California Highway Patrol.The crash was reported at 4:29am on the westbound Freeway, just west of Downey Ave.The driver, a man from Brea in a 1989 Vokswagen Jetta, was driving at "an unsafe speed" when he crashed into one of three...