05th January 2009
The Sacramento bus crash in October has claimed its 10th victim with the death of a 51-year-old woman who died on Tuesday. Mourned by a large family including 15 children and stepchildren, Pia Xiong was given a traditional Hmong funeral.
The bus accide...
05th January 2009
An El Monte man has been sentenced to one year in county jail and five years on probation for his role in a street racing related car accident last year in which his friend was killed and the passenger in the other car seriously injured.
In October 200...
05th January 2009
A celebrated Hollywood screenwriter is facing charges of vehicular manslaughter, as well as two additional charges of causing bodily injury while intoxicated, in a drunk driving accident that killed his friend and injured his wife.
Roger Avary, the scr...
05th January 2009
A drunk driver who allegedly drove the wrong way and smashed his car into another vehicle in a car accident on Highway 280 on Thursday has been arrested, Mercury News is reporting.
The unidentified 35-year-old driver was apparently driving a Toyota und...
05th January 2009
A speeding Silverado pickup truck caused a multi-vehicle car accident on the 55 Freeway in Orange County, killing a two-year-old girl and injuring her father and her 4-month-old brother.
According to the Orange County Register, the two children, Sofia ...
15th December 2008
A string of ATV-related accidents and injuries linked to the Yamaha Rhino is forcing the Consumer Product Safety Commission to investigate the vehicle that promises to "go anywhere."
Technically, the Rhinos are classified as a "utility terrain vehicle"...
15th December 2008
A car accident lawsuit that’s headed to a San Luis Obispo, California court alleges that it was a dangerous road that caused the accident as much as drugs and alcohol. Six years after the accident that left him with severe head and body injuries, Aaron ...
15th December 2008
A jury in a Santa Ana courtroom will begin to hear opening statements soon from both attorneys in a case that threatens to become a highly emotional one – involving negligence of the city on the one hand, and parental supervision, or the lack thereof, o...
15th December 2008
A drunk driver rear-ended a motorcycle in Morongo Valley on Sunday, throwing both the riders off the bike. The driver Carlos Rodriguez, has been arrested.
According to Hi-Desert Star, the motorcycle accident occurred at 6 pm on Sunday. 24-year-old Marc...
08th December 2008
As an update to a story we carried last month in our California drunk driving accident lawyers blog, a former Stockton police trainee has been arraigned in an accident case that killed one of his passengers.
According to the Modesto Bee, 27-year-old Ry...
08th December 2008
An El Cajon, California man will stand trial in a drunk driving accident case that occurred in July of this year. 35-year-old Shannon Shimp is charged with two counts each of murder, as well as gross vehicular manslaughter in the deaths of Ian Kinney and ...
08th December 2008
A pickup truck driver who smashed his vehicle into a car in Manteca, California in a severe car accident that caused injuries to its two occupants, left an unlikely calling card at the scene - his vehicle’s license plate. That was all the evidence polic...
08th December 2008
A Yuba City, California driver can expect to be charged in connection with a drunk driving accident in which two of his close friends were killed.
The accident that occurred on Highway 99 near Live Oak, California on November 16th, is just one more rem...
08th December 2008
There was more than one reason to be thankful during the holiday season this year, traffic accident fatalities were markedly down across California as compared to last year.
According to the California Highway Patrol, a number of counties saw a signifi...
02nd December 2008
A truck driver believed to have been on medication caused a chain of mini accidents on northbound Highway 1 in San Jose. The 56-year-old motorist initially clipped a white sedan, and then kept driving, hitting several signs on the way. He eventually cam...
