Uber has settled a California wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a 6-year-old girl against a driver who was logged into the ride service and available to provide rides, according to court documents. The parties have agreed on a confidential out-of-court settlement, and representative...
Samsung is developing a ‘safety truck” that could potentially reduce the number of truck accidents that occur on two-lane roads in California. The orototype has been tested in Argentina, and the South Korean conglomerate says that the idea works and could save a lot of lives. Argentina has some o...
Drivers in Alameda may see more protection features in new vehicles if the National Transportation Safety Board is successful in its latest campaign. The organization has determined that collision avoidance systems could save many lives. The NTSB released a report that outlined their recommendati...
Law enforcement officials report that during the early morning hours of May 25, a single vehicle crash in Lynwood claimed the lives of two people. Two other people in the car were injured in the fatal accident. According to the report, about 1 a.m. a southbound vehicle traveling in close proximit...
Aggressive, distracted or impaired drivers can cause accidents on any day of the year. However, there are some days when the rate of accidents and insurance claims is higher. For instance, accident rates tend to be higher around an NFL stadium after the home team loses a game. The claim rate incr...
According to reports from the California Highway Patrol, an accident that occurred on April 28 claimed the lives of three people, including a Los Banos High School teacher and the teacher's father. Also killed was the 30-year-old driver of the other involved vehicle. The accident happened just pr...
The California Highway Patrol responded to an accident near Pacoima and Lake View Terrace in the San Fernando Valley on April 17, and one person died in the crash that occurred around 6:40 a.m. near the 118 and 210 Freeway interchange at Foothill Boulevard and Paxton Street. The wreck took place ...
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Many safety organizations in California are making more of an effort to educate motorists about the dangers of distracted driving to reduce the number of car accidents. Reports show that almost 4,000 people were injured in car accidents caused...
California motorists might be interested in learning more about researchers' claims that the fatalities and injuries caused by driving while intoxicated may be reduced by increasing taxes on alcohol. After Illinois increased state taxes on alcohol in 2009, fatal car accidents involving alcohol de...
A 51-year-old male passenger of a taxi was fatally injured in an accident on a transition road on the morning of March 16. The incident took place in Fairfield near the interchange of Interstate 680 and Interstate 80, and reports have indicated that the driver and one other passenger suffered inj...
Authorities report that a two-vehicle wreck shortly before 5:30 a.m. in Byron left three people severely injured. The March 3 incident occurred on the Byron Highway nearby Byron Hot Springs Road. According to the report, a pickup truck collided head-on with an oncoming sedan as the pickup truck a...
A 27-year-old woman was taken into custody after she allegedly hit a pedestrian with her car and then fled the scene. Police were called at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 15 to the scene of the accident at Pacific Coast Highway and 11th Street. When they arrived, they found the 72-year-old victim laying...
A 22-year-old Santa Clara woman who was apparently driving the wrong way on I-880 on Feb. 6 crashed head-on into another vehicle, killing herself and seriously injuring three people. The accident reportedly occurred around 12:34 a.m., prior to the police arriving in response to an emergency call ...
A woman in Corona was killed in a fiery crash involving a suspected drunk driver on Jan. 18. The fatal two-car accident happened near Green River Road on the 91 Freeway at around 4 a.m. Before the fatal collision, the victim had been a passenger in a Honda that was disabled due to a separate acci...
A three-vehicle crash resulted in two deaths and several injuries on Jan. 4, and the California Highway Patrol reported that the crash occurred at around 6:17 p.m. on Highway 84. The Sunol crash happened when a 2007 Toyota Corolla headed west turned left while attempting to move onto eastbound Va...
According to authorities, four people were hospitalized Dec. 26 after a series of collisions on Edwards Street and Mar Vista Drive in Huntington Beach. The incident occurred at around 10:54 a.m. near the Westminster Mall after a 74-year-old man failed to stop his car and hit another car at an int...
On Dec. 7, a four-car accident in California resulted in the death of a 29-year-old woman. The accident occurred in Oceanside at about 9 a.m. when the deceased woman's Kia was rear-ended by a Ford F-150 truck. A Chevy pickup was also hit by the F-150, and the Kia struck a Toyota truck. No one els...
Two people lost their lives in a recent head-on crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Novato. The California Highway Patrol began receiving calls around midnight about a 1995 Toyota Camry station wagon traveling north in the southbound lane of the highway. As the male driver approached the crossing near R...
People are seriously injured or killed in large truck accidents every year in California. Although commercial truck drivers are required to have a commercial driver's license and fairly safe driving records, those facts do not prevent accidents from occurring. These truck accidents can be especia...
With 15 prior lawsuits, FedEx faces yet another case in relation to an April 10 crash involving one of the company's trucks and a chartered bus in California. The incident left 10 people dead, including both of the drivers, and also involved a third passenger vehicle. The two occupants of the Nis...
Around 6:40 a.m. on Oct. 16, a 26-year-old driver reportedly struck two teenage girls, ages 17 and 16, in a crosswalk at an intersection in Bakersfield. Both girls were crossing the street near their high school, and the driver was allegedly looking in her center console at the time of the accide...
Authorities reported that a bicycle accident in Nipomo took the life of a man on October 1. Police suspect the driver involved in the event, who fled the accident scene, was driving under the influence. According to authorities, the fatal accident happened nearby Pomeroy Road around 11 a.m., when...
A 16-year-old high school junior and her grandmother were returning from a baby shower about when their 1998 Mercury Grand Marquis was hit by a Dodge Caravan driven by a 26-year-old man. According to a news release issued by the California Highway Patrol, traffic had slowed in that area, but the ...
Getting hurt when you go to the store because of a slip-and-fall accident isn't something that most people plan into their trip. The sad fact of the matter is that these accidents do sometimes occur. When they do occur, serious injuries might plague you. These injuries can be very costly. Not onl...
Texting while driving is against the law in California, as it is in many other states. But just how effective are these laws at preventing distracted driving accidents? A study published recently in the August American Journal of Public Health addresses that question. Distracted driving laws vary...
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