A 21-year-old Santa Ana woman was in critical condition following a Costa Mesa pedestrian accident in which the driver is suspected of DUI, according to a news report. Katushka Fischmann was walking near the north crosswalk at the intersection of Bristol Street and Randolph Avenue with a friend when she was hit by a Mercedes-Benz…
A 24-year-old Huntington Beach woman was killed in a pedestrian accident when a car hit her and another person while they were crossing Brookhurst Street in Huntington Beach, according to a news report. Oriana Millan was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident and her companion, Harlan Coffman, 25, of La Mirada, sustained non-life…
A man is in critical condition after he was struck by a car while trying to pick up a cardboard box on Garden Grove Boulevard in Westminster, according to a news report. Garden Grove police say the man got out of his pickup truck to pick up a cardboard box in the No. 2 lane…
A man who was in the process of leaving his disabled vehicle on the northbound 57 freeway was struck and killed by another vehicle, according to a news report. The California Highway Patrol said that Lamont Palmer, 38, of Los Angeles, was attempting to exit his disabled car that was stuck in the slow lane…
A 37-year-old Costa Mesa man has been arrested on suspicion of DUI after he hit two girls in a marked crosswalk as they walked to school in Orange, according to a news report. Mitchell Gordon Cupery left the scene of the accident and was discovered later by Orange police hiding in a plastic trashcan in…
A recently released report by Transportation for America says that nearly 2,500 pedestrians were killed in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metro area from 2000 to 2009, making it the 27th most dangerous place in the nation for pedestrians, according to a news report. California ranks as the 16th deadliest state for pedestrians, according to…
The driver of a pick-up truck has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run Huntington Beach pedestrian accident that sent one person to the hospital in critical condition, according to a news report. Huntington Beach police say that the pedestrian was hit at the intersection of Beach Boulevard and Chrysler Drive, and is hospitalized in…
A 27-year-old Placentia man with two prior DUI convictions has been charged with murder in connection with a fatal Laguna Niguel pedestrian accident in February that killed Mara Steves of Laguna Niguel and injured two occupants of another car, according to a news report. Adam Harrison Hall has also been charged with DUI causing bodily…
A man in his late 20s has been struck by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train and killed in an Orange County train accident, according to a news report. Authorities say that the man was walking east on the tracks near the Fullerton Transportation Center when he was hit by the eastbound freight train,…
A 31-year-old Stanton man has been killed in a Buena Park bus accident after being struck by a charter bus while walking on the 91 freeway, according to a news report. California Highway Patrol said they received a call about a pedestrian walking in the traffic lanes of the 91 freeway near Beach Boulevard. The…
