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 »
Five people were injured in a Koreatown crash in the early morning hours of November 22. All were hospitalized, two in critical condition. Two other victims were in serious condition and one was in fair condition. The two-vehicle accident occurred around 5:07 a.m. at the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and... Read more »
A total of 9 people were injured in Canoga Park on October 20 when a car crashed into a fire hydrant, causing a geyser that flooded a close-by shoe store. Five of the injured had life-threatening injuries, according to the Los Angeles Times. Another, a four-year-old child, had a broken... Read more »
One person died in a multivehicle accident on the southbound 5 Freeway near the 405 Freeway exit in the Granada Hills area on November 8. The victim, 28-year-old Yessenia Camacho, was a resident of Lancaster. While the cause of the accident was not immediately known, footage showed that from four... Read more »
The actress Helen Hunt, known for the 1990s sitcom Mad About You and films such as As Good as It Gets, was taken to the hospital on October 16, when the SUV she was traveling in was hit by another car and rolled over on its side. The actress, who... Read more »
