A gas station customer was caught in a fiery explosion Sunday night when a driver lost control and slammed into a gas pump at a Chevron in Seal Beach. The car was driving north on Beach Boulevard when it jumped the curb and crashed into the station located at 2950 Westminster Boulevard. Officers responded 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…
A 25-year-old Trabuco Canyon man died on New Year’s Day, 17 days after being struck by a car while riding his bike in Rancho Santa Margarita. Chandler Espinoza was hit at approximately 3:40 pm on December 15 while he was riding on a street. He was taken to a hospital and being treated for his…
A woman discovered her husband was killed in a car crash in Aliso Viejo last Wednesday morning when she happened to come upon the scene. A suspected hit-and-run driver has now been arrested. Rogelio Martinez Cuin, 38, was taken into custody after authorities responded to the crash site near Woods Canyon Drive and Westridge Drive about…
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 police pursuit in the Orange County area ended with a dangerous PIT maneuver that sent the pursuit vehicle crashing into two cars stopped at a red light in Anaheim Sunday night. Eventually, a police vehicle approached the pursuit vehicle and performed a dangerous PIT maneuver that sent the pursuit vehicle skidding into two vehicles…
Thirty-one-year-old Laura Kate Stackhouse of Costa Mesa was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after her BMW crashed into the living room of a Costa Mesa home at around 1 a.m. on the Saturday morning of January 19. Police officers were dispatched to the 900 block of Begonia Avenue in response to a…
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…
Last week the Orange County District Attorney’s Office had declined to file charges fagainst a driver accused of a DUI crash that killed a 9-year-old girl and her 33-year-old mother on New Year’s Day on the 22 Freeway. Melvin Branch, 30, was scheduled to be in court Thursday, facing DUI and gross vehicular manslaughter charges,…
A 33-year-old mother and her 9-year old daughter were killed early Tuesday morning in a multi-vehicle crash in Garden Grove on the 22 Freeway. The California Highway Patrol reported that a 30-year-old driver of a BMW that was involved in the collision was arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving and gross vehicular manslaughter while…