Eight people were injured when a stalled minivan was hit by a Metro Blue Link train in South Los Angeles recently. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, the driver of the minivan was arrested and booked on suspicion of drunk driving. All eight people were taken to local hospitals with injuries – two…
Eleven-year-old Joshua Archila of Orange was killed and his mother and eight-year-old sister sustained major injuries in a multi-car accident on I-15 in Riverside County. According to the California Highway Patrol, a truck driven by David Rudder, 55, of Santa Ana slammed into the back of a 2000 Camry driven by Archila’s father, Erick Archila,…
NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said that government planes and helicopters are currently “safety orphans,” with no governing body regulating the safety of the flight crews, government employees and passengers who use them and that “someone needs to accept this duty.” The issue of who is responsible for overseeing the safety of government aircraft came to…
In the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Judge James V. Selna has issued a preliminary opinion denying Toyota Motor Corporation’s motion to dismiss several key causes of action in 51 lawsuits claiming negligence, design defects, failure to warn and fraudulent concealment by the Japanese automaker. Toyota had argued that the plaintiffs…
California-based Hewlett Packard has settled two separate but related whistle-blower lawsuits. The suits alleged that HP violated competitive bidding rules for federal programs providing internet services to public schools. HP company contractors reportedly bribed Texas school officials with expensive gifts such as Super Bowl tickets and rides on fancy yachts. In exchange, the school officials…
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has settled the case of two SCUBA diving business owners that ganged up on a competitor. Two Avalon SCUBA outfits attempted to drive competitor Ron Moore of Dive Catalina out of business by fixing prices for diving tours. According to the D.A.’s office the textbook collusion resulted in unfair…
An Illinois teen died while scuba diving in a Kankakee County quarry with his Venturing Crew 188 troop, a co-ed division of the Boy Scouts. Kenneth G. Uhl, who was only 16, was certified for open water diving. The diving group realized Uhl was missing during a regular safety head count. Uhl failed to surface…
Two Orange County women were crossing Adams Avenue about 40 feet from Pinecreek Drive when they were hit by a Ford F150 truck. The pickup truck was pulling out of the Adams Avenue parking area at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. The driver had waited for other pedestrians to cross in a nearby…
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…
A Salvation Army thrift store in Grand Junction, Colorado was crowded with holiday shoppers when a part of its roof suddenly collapsed, momentarily trapping 22 people inside. According to a news report, a portion of the thrift store’s ceiling collapsed onto the first floor. Store employees feared that one person had been trapped in the…
