An auto accident can be the most unnerving experience of your life. The screeching tires, the slamming of breaks along with bracing your body for a collision can rattle even the most stoic driver. No matter how large or small the accident is these horrific images are sure to remain in the subconscious of [...]
Being involved in an auto accident can be one of the most difficult circumstances someone may have to endure in their entire life. If you’ve been injured as a result of the accident the severity of your situation increases dramatically, and at that point you’ll want to involve an attorney to protect you and your [...]
Continue reading …“Texting has become part of American culture in the past decade, but it has been also been instrumental in becoming a dangerous distraction when it comes to driving”, said car accident attorney Emery Brett Ledger. To many law enforcement agencies, texting while driving has already replaced the DUI as the most dangerous activity one can [...]
Continue reading …PLUMAS COUNTY, Calif. — Two employees of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. were killed and two others were injured after the utility truck they were driving spun off Highway 70 and sunk in the Rock Creek Reservoir on Feather River, police said. The two men who were killed, a 29-year-old from Chico, and a 31-year-old [...]
Continue reading …HESPERIA, Calif. – The driver of a Dodge Durango was airlifted to a nearby trauma center Friday morning after losing control of his vehicle on Highway 395. The driver sideswiped a tractor trailer truck and then struck a pickup truck in a head-on collision. The location of the accident, near Smoke Tree Street, was just [...]
Continue reading …FULLERTON – A 4-year-old boy suffered minor injuries Thursday behind the wheel of his mother’s SUV after it took off down State College Boulevard. The boy had climbed behind the wheel of SUV drove down the street, hit one other vehicle, and then crossed into ongoing traffic before it struck a tree, police said. At [...]
Continue reading …GREENBRAE, Calif. – Three different traffic accidents were reported within minutes of one another Thursday morning in the same vicinity of Highway 101 injuring several people including one man on a motorcycle, the California Highway Patrol said. First, about 8:10 a.m., there was a multiple-vehicle accident between a Chevrolet pickup and two Honda passenger cars [...]
Continue reading …DAVIS, Calif. – A 29-year-old driver from Sacramento was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving Wednesday night after her abandoned Honda Civic was struck by an Amtrak passenger train carrying 20 passengers. California Highway Patrol officers reported that the 2005 Honda Civic was allegedly driven off the road by a drunk driver who accidently turned [...]
Continue reading …SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A 42-year-old man facing vehicular manslaughter charges for a fatal hit–and-run accident in June was identified yesterday as the same man who died Monday after falling from an 11-story parking structure near San Diego City Hall. The fall that killed the hit-and-run defendant Monday took place at the same site where [...]
Continue reading …OAKLAND, Calif. – Two Amtrak passenger trains collided Wednesday at the Jack London Amtrak Station in what was described as a slow speed head-on accident injuring 18 people with minor injuries, police said. The train accident took place when the San Joaquin Amtrak train with eight passengers struck the stationary Coast Starlight train carrying 137 [...]
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