A 29-year-old Huntington Beach woman has been injured in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident, according to a news report. Fountain Valley police said that the female motorcyclist, who has been identified in social media comments as Rickie Yarbrough of Huntington Beach, was traveling west on Talbert Avenue at Mount Washington when a Lexus RX300 made a…
A female Orange County Transportation Authority bus driver has been seriously injured in a crash with another motorist suspected of DUI, according to a news report. Santa Ana police said that the female employee was in an OCTA Toyota Prius used by bus drivers to shuttle between routes when she was hit head-on by a…
A 29-year-old Murrieta man has been killed in a motorcycle accident on Ortega Highway, according to a news report. The California Highway Patrol said that Travis Tucker was riding his 2004 Suzuki motorcycle west on Ortega Highway when he hit the back of a 2006 Honda Element, which had swerved to avoid stopped traffic. Investigators…
A 19-year-old Santa Ana man has been killed in a Santa Ana pedestrian accident, according to a news report. Santa Ana police said that Daniel Rubio was crossing the street in the 2200 block of West 17th Street on the Santa Ana River bridge when he was hit by a car. Rubio was pronounced dead…
A male pedestrian who was hit by a taxi on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach has died, according to a news report. Newport Beach police said that the victim, whose name is still being withheld pending notification of family, was struck by a tax while walking on the Pacific Coast Highway near Reef Point. …
A 24-year-old Riverside man has been killed in an Anaheim motorcycle accident, according to a news report. Anaheim police said that Christopher Waldrop was riding his motorcycle west on Orangethorpe Avenue when a Buick Century traveling east on Orangethorpe turned left in front of him. Paramedics attempted to revive Waldrop at the scene, and he…
A 43-year-old woman has been seriously injured in a Laguna Niguel pedestrian accident, according to a news report. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said that the unidentified female pedestrian was in a crosswalk at Moulton Parkway and Aliso Niguel when she was struck by a Honda Civic. The victim was taken to a local hospital…
A 48-year-old Fountain Valley man has been killed after the driver of a GMC Blazer crashed into the parked RV he was working on, according to a news report. Fountain Valley police said that Timothy Claude Michaud was underneath his disabled Winnebago RV on Lawson River Avenue just east of Ward Street when a GMC…
A 65-year-old Air Force veteran paralyzed in a car crash when serving in Germany was the victim of a hit-and-run driver who struck him while he was in his motorized wheelchair in a crosswalk, according to a news report. Fountain Valley police said that Harvey Mayo was in his wheelchair in the crosswalk at Southpark…
Newport Beach ranked third in the state among cities its size for bicycle accidents in 2010, according to a report from the California Office of Traffic Safety, with 11 fatal accidents in the past six years, including two in the past month. Orange County ranked 14th highest out of 58 counties in the number of…
