A stunningly tragic 10-car pileup on the Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach has claimed three lives, including that of the driver whose vehicle was the first involved in the crash, former Stanford track star Julie Allen, 27. According to news reports, the accident occurred at Riverside Avenue and West Coast Highway when Allen’s Ford…
An Irvine police officer who was off-duty was injured when the 2008 BMW police motorcycle he was driving collided with a 2005 Mercedes in Huntington Beach. According to police reports, the unidentified officer’s motorcycle was traveling west on Adams Avenue when it struck the Mercedes, which was travelling north on Brookhurst at Adams. The two…
A Fountain Valley man has been killed after the car he was driving struck a street sweeper that was stopped at an intersection. Dennis Schenk, 55, was driving a 2010 Hyundai north on Beach Boulevard in Stanton when he crashed into the side of the street sweeper, which was stopped at the intersection of Beach…
Even with new safety measures in place, a New Year’s Eve “rave” event at the Los Angeles Sports Arena sent 17 attendees to the hospital and another 62 were treated onsite by Los Angeles Fire Dept. personnel for a wide variety of injuries and illnesses, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The…
The 15-year-old daughter of former AL Rookie of the Year Marty Cordova is in a coma after the car she was riding in on her way to school was broadsided by a truck. Ashley McAdam suffered head trauma as well as a broken jaw, elbow and thighbone. She was a passenger in a friend’s car…
A 26-year-old Mission Viejo Air Force veteran was stabbed to death while trying to protect his younger brother from an attacker at the “NYE OC” bash. Robert Sickles was killed and a childhood friend, Brian McTeigue, was injured when they attempted to stop 23-year-ol Adam Randy Baker of Dana Point from assaulting Sickles’ younger brother,…
Eleven-year-old Joshua Archila of Orange was killed and his mother and eight-year-old sister sustained major injuries in a multi-car accident on I-15 in Riverside County. According to the California Highway Patrol, a truck driven by David Rudder, 55, of Santa Ana slammed into the back of a 2000 Camry driven by Archila’s father, Erick Archila,…
In the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Judge James V. Selna has issued a preliminary opinion denying Toyota Motor Corporation’s motion to dismiss several key causes of action in 51 lawsuits claiming negligence, design defects, failure to warn and fraudulent concealment by the Japanese automaker. Toyota had argued that the plaintiffs…
An Illinois teen died while scuba diving in a Kankakee County quarry with his Venturing Crew 188 troop, a co-ed division of the Boy Scouts. Kenneth G. Uhl, who was only 16, was certified for open water diving. The diving group realized Uhl was missing during a regular safety head count. Uhl failed to surface…
47-year-old Lauren Perdriau Ward was killed by a big rig truck while riding her bicycle in Silicon Valley. The accident occurred on Alpine Road near the I-280 overpass. Investigators say it looks like the accident occurred on the left hand side of the truck. The bicycle and the truck were both traveling westbound, and police…
