A Lake Forest car accident prompted authorities to arrest a 20-year-old man for suspicion of drunk driving after the motorist emerged from a crashed car holding a 12-pack of beer. Police arrived at the scene of the accident near Serrano Road and Lake Vista after a 911 call came in at around 12:18 a.m. The [...]
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An unfortunate trolley accident resulted in the death of a bicyclist in the Mountain View area. The collision occurred early Tuesday evening just after 5 p.m. near Greenwood Memorial park and Mortuary on Imperial Avenue. The cyclist was struck on a stretch of tracks near the Park and died at the scene. The gender, name, [...]
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A woman that was killed when her car drifted off state route 56 was identified as Jacqueline O’ Day of San Diego. Since her 2002 Volkswagen Jetta flipped over and traveled down an icy embankment early Thursday morning near Camino del Sur , authorities have attempted to identify her. During the investigation, they noted [...]
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A car accident in San Diego this morning resulted in the death of a woman who may have been a military officer. The incident occurred at 5:45 a.m. in the Torrey Highlands area when the 23-year old’s car drifted off State route 56, overturned and tumbled down an ice plant covered embankment. The driver was [...]
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33-year-old Gustavo Garcia was killed 6:50 am Thursday morning after a tractor-trailer overturned on a North County freeway interchange crushing the sedan he was driving. The rollover accident transpired in Oceanside California shortly after Garcia drove onto the curving ramp from Southside Interstate 5 to eastbound route 78. The Mexican national, who had been living [...]
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A one-year-old girl was struck and killed by an Dodge Durango SUV in Long Beach late Friday night and was dragged nearly a mile down Redondo Avenue before the driver finally stopped. SUV driver Neely Dinkins, 33, was charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, driving under the influence, hit and run and driving with [...]
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89-year old Vista resident Maximino Carapia died shortly after a recent accident at The San Diego Wild Animal Park. The widower, who lived alone with his son, had jaunted off through the back country area of the park on a mule when he fell off the animal. He was taken to the Palomar Medical Center [...]
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Posted in Car Accidents, Wrongful Death on Aug 18th, 2009
A car accident in the Castaic region left one man dead after he plunged to his death by careening off a canyon. The man, who was driving a Los Angeles Country van, fell 100 feet to his death and was identified this past Saturday by a coroner’s investigator. He was 63-year-old Francisco Ramon Diaz, a [...]
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Posted in Wrongful Death on Jul 30th, 2009
One family in Vista was on the receiving end of a 2 million dollar judgment awarded by jury in a wrongful death case. The widow of a man who died when his golf cart fell into a cliff sued for wrongful death and finally received the aforementioned verdict, over 2 years after the accident took [...]
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The passenger of a 2007 Chevrolet Suburban was ejected from the vehicle after it struck a tree. He suffered head injuries and later died at a local area hospital. The accident occurred near the 600 block of South Standard Avenue at approximately 1 a.m. in Santa Ana. The 28-year-old man was not wearing a seatbelt [...]
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