Los Altos Hills, California Cyclist Killed by Big Rig

47-year-old Lauren Perdriau Ward was killed by a big rig truck while riding her bicycle in Silicon Valley. The accident occurred on Alpine Road near the I-280 overpass. Investigators say it looks like the accident occurred on the left hand side of the truck. The bicycle and the truck were both traveling westbound, and police…

Los Altos Hills, California Cyclist Killed by Big Rig

47-year-old Lauren Perdriau Ward was killed by a big rig truck while riding her bicycle in Silicon Valley. The accident occurred on Alpine Road near the I-280 overpass. Investigators say it looks like the accident occurred on the left hand side of the truck. The bicycle and the truck were both traveling westbound, and police…

Semi-truck Kills Pedestrian in Santa Ana, California

An unidentified male pedestrian was hit and killed by a big-rig flat bed truck as he crossed Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana around 6:30 a.m. on October 15th. It was still dark when the accident occurred. The man was crossing Harbor Blvd. about 300 feet south of the intersection with Westminster Avenue when the truck…

Big Rig Strikes and Drags Woman in Garden Grove, California; Driver Cited for Felony DUI

It was broad daylight at 11am on a Friday morning when William Davis allegedly turned down Woodbury Road in Garden Grove, California. The commercial truck tractor Davis was driving careened off the residential street, striking several trees, a fence and thirty six year old Olga Quiroz before hitting a concrete block wall and coming to…

Why Do California Drivers Commit Hit and Run in Serious Pedestrian Accidents?

Whether you call it “hit and run” or “leaving the scene of an accident” the result is the same; someone is seriously injured, brain damaged, paralyzed, or killed in an accident, and the responsible party takes off without even stopping to see if the victim needs help. For some reason this offence is growing in…

Tow Truck Driver Hits Mom and Two Kids in Crosswalk in Oxnard, California

Nineteen year old Alma Lopez was crossing Vineyard Avenue at Simon Way in Oxnard California with her two young children in a stroller when she became the victim of a pedestrian hit and run accident. Mehran Khamseh, a tow truck driver from Santa Barbara, turned left onto Vineyard Avenue, knocking Lopez over and dragging the…

Three Hospitalized with Serious Injuries after I-405 Pile Up in Irvine, California

A young mother from Moreno Valley, California, her four-year-old daughter, and a 78 year old Newport Beach man remain hospitalized with serious injuries after a major crash on I-405 that occurred around 8:30 the morning of October 23rd. Ana Maria Flores, the young mother from Moreno Valley, was moving into the northbound lane of I-405…