A white BMW SUV fell two stories from the Beverly Connection parking garage on February 20, landing upside down on another car. The BMW’s driver was transported to Cedars-Sinai hospital, where his injuries were reported as non-life-threatening. The driver of the other car, a silver Nissan, was shaken but unhurt.... Read more »
An apparent two-car collision on February 6 caused one car to end up on an Anaheim home’s doorstep after breaking through an ornamental brick wall in the front yard. The other car landed on the sidewalk. One person was shown being transported to the hospital in news footage. The other... Read more »
Despite Los Angeles County’s bold Vision Zero initiative, whose goals include eliminating deaths due to traffic accidents, the number of traffic deaths remains very high in Los Angeles. LAPD: Plan Can’t Be Achieved as Long as Drivers Use Cell Phones Los Angeles County officials have been criticized sharply for the... Read more »
Despite efforts to reduce traffic accidents in the Los Angeles area, the number of accidents registered in 2019 appears to be about the same as the number in 2018 – evidence that the Vision Zero initiative, aimed at reducing traffic accidents to minimal levels, is not working as expected. Pedestrians... Read more »
Disturbing statistics have recently been issued from several governmental agencies that highlight just how many fatalities are occurring in Los Angeles as a result of car accidents. First, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued a report in December 2019 indicating that car crashes stood at #4 in... Read more »
Three vehicles collided directly in front of the Department of Motor Vehicles in Costa Mesa at midday Monday, January 6. All of the drivers sustained injuries, one seriously, according to the Newport Beach fire captain. Fire units had to extricate one of the injured from his vehicle, an SUV that... Read more »
A 60-year-old father of 3 was fatally struck in the early morning hours of December 19 at an Echo Park intersection in a hit-and-run accident. The Los Angeles Police Department is actively looking for the driver, who fled the scene. The victim was Jose Mario Vaquero, who was apparently catching... Read more »
A 21-year-old woman was killed in a six-car crash on the 210 Freeway in the early morning hours of December 16. The victim, identified as Jennifer Gainer Goldsbury, 21, was a resident of Los Angeles. The accident occurred in Duarte at approximately 2:40 a.m., when a Toyota Highlander in which... Read more »
A 52-year-old woman died and her two young relatives were injured critically-to-seriously after a vehicle ran a stoplight and T-boned their vehicle on Friday, November 29. The victim, Felicita Lemus, was trapped by the impact of the crash on the driver’s side. Although paramedics worked to rescue her, she was... Read more »
Two children have tragically died as a result of a fiery crash near Stevenson Ranch on November 18. A speeding car carrying a mother and two children barreled through a red light, veered into the wrong side of the street, and crashed into a curb, a sign, a traffic signal,... Read more »
