Recent Posts in Truck Accident Category
Posted on Oct 10, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A Santa Monica driver was arrested for a fatal crash that happened on the 10 freeway Tuesday at 1:30 a.m. Molly Kate Adams, a 21-year-old Santa Monica resident, was traveling westbound on the 10 ...
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Posted on May 24, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A big rig crash involving a wrong-way driver on the 210 Freeway in Sylmar on Thursday left one driver dead. The accident happened just after 2:15 a.m. near Roxford St. The driver of a sedan was headed ...
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Posted on Mar 11, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A pickup truck driver fled the scene of a hit and run accident that killed a motorcyclist Saturday afternoon in Canoga Park. The accident happened at the intersection of Nordhoff St. and De Soto Ave. ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A big-rig ran a red light on Monday, causing a multi-vehicle collision in San Clemente. The accident happened at about 11 a.m. on the off-ramp of the southbound I-5 Freeway at Avenida Pico. The ...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
The driver of a big-rig truck that took a nose-dive off a 101 overpass after forcing a BMW into a railing on the bridge was high on drugs, according to a CHP toxicology report. The accident happened ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A Glendale was resident was killed Wednesday in a three vehicle crash involving a tanker truck and semi truck on Highway 118. The three-vehicle accident happened at about 11:45 a.m. 23-year-old Zareh ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A UPS tractor trailer truck plunged off the 15 freeway in the Cajon Pass on Wednesday, killing the truck driver. The accident happened at about 7 a.m. UPS truck driver Alfred Eclipse, Jr., a ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A big-rig accident on the 405 freeway this morning resulted in a SigAlert on the southbound I-405. According to CHP officer Denise Quesada, the big-rig crash happened at about 7:26 a.m., just south of ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2012 By Daniel McGee
A woman was killed Friday in Big Bear City when her vehicle was hit by a dump truck trailer. The collision occurred about 11 a.m. Leonor De Corona, a 37-year-old resident of Big Bear, was northbound ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A pickup truck driver struck a bicyclist Friday evening in Santa Ana, and then fled the scene. According to Santa Ana police Cmdr. Larry Coleman, the accident happened just before 6:45 p.m. in the 100 ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2012 By Catherine Lerer
A multi-vehicle crash involving a big rig resulted in the closure of the 10 freeway Tuesday night in Montclair. The accident occurred around 11:15 p.m. on the westbound I-10 near the Monte Vista exit. ...
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Posted on Dec 5, 2011 By Catherine Lerer
A motorcyclist collided with a garbage truck today in Malibu, resulting in the motorcyclist's death. The accident happened at about 9:00 a.m. on Pacific Coast Highway at Rambla Vista. The ...
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Posted on Nov 15, 2011 By Catherine Lerer
A two vehicle collision today at the intersection of First St. and Euclid St. in Santa Ana left five people injured. The accident happened at about 11:50 a.m. Two women and two children were driving ...
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Posted on Nov 12, 2011 By Catherine Lerer
An 11-year-old boy on a skateboard died after colliding with a garbage truck in Vallejo, California. An 8-year-old on the back of the skateboard suffered serious injuries. The accident happened at ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2011 By Catherine Lerer
On Tuesday evening, a pickup truck struck and injured a pedestrian who was crossing Pacific Coast Highway near the Malibu Pier. According to Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station Sergeant Philip ...
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Posted on Oct 18, 2011 By Catherine Lerer
Tuesday at approximately 4:30 p.m., Malibu residents Steve Halpern, 61, and his mother Belle, 90, were killed in a single vehicle accident on Malibu's Kanan-Dume Rd. According to Sergeant John ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2011 By Catherine Lerer
Right-turning trucks are an accident waiting to happen. They present enormous dangers to cars, motorcycles and bicycles that are in the lane to the right of the truck. Trucks cannot physically make a ...
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