Six people were injured, two critically, when an SUV slammed into a pole just before midnight on April 5. The driver, Alex Nieves of Santa Ana, 18, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence as a tank of nitrous oxide was found in the white Chevrolet SUV, and, “May have been a contributing factor…
A multi-vehicle car accident on the 405 Wednesday morning resulted in a fatality. The northbound side of the freeway in Costa Mesa near Harbor Boulevard became severely congested prior to and during the morning commute following the horrible crash. The multi-vehicle car crash occurred at 4:45 a.m. when a minor crash was reported. This minor crash…
At least 10 separate cars crashed along the I-5 in Southern California on Saturday led to a pileup that resulted in at least 16 people injured including a 22-month-old baby who was reported to be in critical condition. The crashes caused traffic delays for several hours along the Grapevine after its occurence at around 2:45…
Police identified the 22-year-old motorcyclist killed in a collision with a vehicle in Costa Mesa as Yasar Barakzai. Barakzai was identified by the Orange County Coroner’s Office Thursday. Police and firefighters responded about 8:50 p.m. Tuesday to a traffic collision between Barakzai and the driver of a silver Nissan sedan on Fairview Road and Adams Avenue.…
One person died early Wednesday morning in Anaheim in a crash in the southbound lanes of the 5 Freeway. Police arrived on the scene at around 3:00 a.m., to find a box truck on its side, blocking the carpool lane near Euclid Street. A damaged red sedan was in another lane. Police called for the…
Seventy-eight-year-old Vito DiGiorgio was struck by three different vehicles and killed while trying to cross the Pacific Coast Highway in Dana Point on Saturday night. DiGiorgio of San Juan Capistrano was with his wife, and was “not in a crosswalk as they attempted to cross PCH in the area just after 6 p.m.,” according to Carrie Braun of…
A crash between a minivan and sedan was reported at 10:22 p.m. Monday night at Westminster and Beach boulevards. Emergency responders arrived to find five people injured who were taken to hospitals. Four of those rushed to hospitals had suffered traumatic injuries, with two being taken to OC Global Medical Center and two taken to…
A pickup truck driven by Christopher Solis, 22, of Anaheim, veered onto a sidewalk in busy downtown Fullerton at 1:50 a.m. Sunday morning, running into a crowd of people and injuring 10. The red Toyota Tacoma he was driving even trapped some people beneath the vehicle and witnesses scrambled to get the truck off the…
Police arrested the driver of a Chevy Silverado pickup truck that slammed into a bus in Anaheim on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs on Thursday, Jan. 24. According to police, the collision sent 15 people to a nearby hospital with minor and moderate injuries. The driver and passenger of the Silverado involved…
A crash on Highway 91 in Orange County occurred at around 3 a.m. Sunday, January 20 when a driver was headed eastbound in the Westbound lanes near Gypsum Canyon. California Highway Patrol said the vehicle headed in the wrong direction collided with an oncoming vehicle. Then at least two other crashes occurred in the traffic…