Two occupants of a speeding vehicle were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after slamming into a tree in Santa Ana Thursday night, officials said. Drugs are also suspected to have played a role in the crash, Santa Ana police said in a news release. Officers responded to the 3200 block of West Warner Avenue after street-racing activity…
On Saturday in Anaheim, 24-year-old Leobardo Robledo was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence of alcohol. The crash injured six people, including a woman who was critically injured. Allegedly, Robledo was driving a black 2014 Dodge sedan when he ran a red light as he was heading south on Manchester Avenue and…
A driver has been arrested after a suspect DUI crash in which a 66-year-old woman was pinned between his vehicle and her own, Garden Grove Police Department said in a news release Wednesday. Andres Ramon Salas, 35, of Garden Grove, was arrested shortly after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday after a crash near 8051 Larson Avenue. Police…
Andrew Francis McClain of Costa Mesa was struck and killed by a suspected DUI driver while walking on the 710 Freeway in Long Beach early Sunday morning. McClain was apparently walking near the northbound lanes of the freeway just south of Anaheim Street about 12:30 a.m. and was struck by a Toyota Prius in the…
Monday saw mourners gathered near the Santa Ana crash site where four people lost their lives in a suspected DUI crash that happened over the weekend. The victims of the crash have been identified as 31-year-old Jose Alberto Avila-Rosas of Santa Ana; 23-year-old Ziomara Zaragoza of Garden Grove; 23-year-old Antonio Alonso Santibanez of Orange; and 34-year-old Prisma Yuliana…
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…
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…
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…