One person was killed and one badly injured following an Orange wrong-way crash that happened on the 241 toll road Thursday night. According to police, a 72-year-old Gardena man was driving the wrong way on the 241 toll road when he collided with a 2006 Ford F-150 and a 2018 Chevrolet Camaro. The fatal wrong-way…
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…