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…
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…
According to public records compiled by auto insurance companies, over forty percent of all car crashes in the United States occur at intersections. The majority (if not all) of these intersections are equipped with traffic signals or stop signs, which means the cause of the accidents is drivers and pedestrians not paying attention when approaching…
Dan Crain of Irvine, California didn’t appear to be in critical condition after he was struck by a car in Orange County on Newport Coast Drive. Nevertheless, the sixty-five year old cyclist died in the hospital from his injuries a week later. Crain was travelling southbound on Newport Coast Drive when he was hit by…
Old Auburn Road in Granite Bay, California was the scene of a near-fatal pedestrian accident recently. A fifty year old woman was taking a walk down the road, near Allegretto way, when she was struck by a vehicle driven by a fifty one year old resident of Granite Bay. There is no indication that the…
A twenty-five year old Copperopolis, California woman was jogging with her ten year old niece when she was struck and killed by a motor vehicle. The young girl was not injured in the incident. Amy Lynn Freeseha and her niece were jogging along the river in the early evening when Freehesa was struck from behind…
A Metrolink commuter train struck and killed Debbie Ann Schwartz as she walked along the tracks near the Casa Blanca section of Riverside, California. Ms. Schwartz died at the scene. No one on board the train was injured. However, this was not the first fatal train accident to take place in Riverside. In April of…
Forty-nine year old Laura Casey was riding her bike along a Richmond, California road when she was struck by a car and knocked to the ground. As the car that hit her drove off, Casey started screaming for help, but before witnesses could reach her she was struck by another car that got caught on…
A half a world away from Orange County, California, an Australian woman was killed in what can only be called a freak lawn mowing accident. The forty two year old Queensland native was walking past an empty lot that was being mowed by a private contractor on a commercial lawnmower. It appears that the mower…
Linda Georgette Saunders was struck and killed by a hit and run driver in the early morning hours as she attempted to walk across the 210 freeway west of Ocean View Boulevard in La Crescenta, California. Investigators are still uncertain as to why the fifty-five year old woman was walking across the highway; her car…
