Police report that a chain of crashes involving seven vehicles, including a California Highway Patrol cruiser responding to the initial wrong-way crash in Costa Mesa, left five people injured and led to two arrests early Sunday. The first crash occurred at 3:36 a.m. when a Toyota Camry, which was heading north in the 55 Freeway’s…
36-year-old motorcyclist, Hugo Juarez, was hit and killed by a car that was driving the wrong way on the 5 Freeway in Santa Ana. The driver of the Jaguar was also killed.
Three women from Riverside — including a mother and daughter — have died in a wrong-way collision on I-10 near Phoenix, Arizona when returning home from watching Angels spring training games. The victims were identified as Christine Bradbury, 31, a Riverside County Deputy Probation Officer; her mother Susan Bradbury, 55, a supervisor at Coco’s restaurant…
The driver of an SUV hit head-on by a wrong-way driver in Brea has died as the result of the two-vehicle crash. The Brea Police Department said that the crash occurred on Associated Road between Imperial Highway and Birch Street when a northbound pickup truck traveling the wrong way in the southbound lane of Associated…
The California Highway Patrol said it received reports of a wrong-way driver on I-5 shortly before the collision occurred on the freeway near Magnolia Avenue. Officers arrived to find a crushed SUV and a damaged Chevy sedan, and reported smelling alcohol at the scene. One driver was taken to the hospital; the other driver was…
Five people have been injured in a wrong-way crash on Orangewood Avenue just east of the 57 Freeway in Orange, according to the Orange Fire Department. Officials said that a vehicle driving the wrong direction on Orangewood Avenue cut across several lanes and hit another vehicle that was traveling east on Orangewood. A total of…
A man and a woman have been killed after their car collided with a wrong-way driver on the southbound 241 toll road in Anaheim. The California Highway Patrol said that the two victims — Young Yoon, 70, of Lake Forest, and Steve Yoon, 45, of Irvine — were in a white Toyota Prius traveling south…
A wrong-way accident on the I-5 freeway in Buena Park has killed a 26-year-old Garden Grove man and a 53-year-old Los Angeles man. The California Highway Patrol said that a Honda Insight was traveling north in the southbound lanes of I-5 at a high rate of speed before colliding with an SUV, which then caught…
Two men have been killed in a fiery wrong-way crash on the 405 freeway in Costa Mesa, according to a news report. The California Highway Patrol said that a 2001 Ford driven by Jose Garcia Lopez, 29, of Fullerton was going the wrong way in the northbound lanes of the 405 freeway when he crashed…
An El Cajon teen is dead and a 45-year-old man has been injured in a wrong-way crash in Temecula, according to a news report. The California Highway Patrol said that 17-year-old Sergio Maldonado was driving a Honda Accord west in the eastbound lane of Murrieta Hot Springs Road near Inverness Way when he collided head-on…