Residents who live in Huntington Beach, California near the intersection on Springdale Street and Croupier Drive say the intersection has been a dangerous crossing for many years. The danger was only highlighted when seven month old Ruby Rose Gould was struck and killed in the crosswalk at the beginning of September. She was being pushed…
It was broad daylight at 11am on a Friday morning when William Davis allegedly turned down Woodbury Road in Garden Grove, California. The commercial truck tractor Davis was driving careened off the residential street, striking several trees, a fence and thirty six year old Olga Quiroz before hitting a concrete block wall and coming to…
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol (DUI) is a crime that leads to thousands of deaths every year. Groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) have made great strides in reducing the number of alcohol related deaths by lobbying for tougher punishments. Unfortunately, their valiant efforts to curtail drunk driving may have had…
Some of the things you and I take for granted every day are nothing but dreams to victims who have been seriously injured in an accident. Twenty six year old Mark Bouvier suffered brain damage in an auto accident nearly a year ago, when his fiancée was still pregnant with their son. Now dreams of…
According to the US Department of Transportation (US DOT), the number of bus crashes has climbed in recent years. In the United States as a whole, there were 13,195 accidents involving buses in 2007 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), up from 8,555 in 2003. In those same five years, 1,651 people…
A history of bus crashes, faulty brakes, worn tires, poor maintenance, bad driving records, incomplete logbooks, and flagrant safety violations can all contribute to a charter bus company’s deficient safety score. But each charter bus company does receive a score, which is readily available on the US Department of Transportation (US DOT) website. So why…
A California tour bus overturned on a Phoenix highway recently, killing six passengers and injuring all other 17 people on board. The bus, which was operated by Van Nuys, California based Tierra Santa Inc., reportedly hit a pickup and rolled over, ejecting six passengers who died of their injuries. The bus was traveling its regular…
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…
