A worker at a Long Beach rail facility suffered fatal job injuries after a crane collapsed on top of him. The Los Angeles Times reports that the accident occurred the morning of September 18, 2010 at the facility in the 2400 block of East Sepulveda Boulevard. The worker was apparently…
Roshan Rahbari, a recent high school graduate, was killed in a San Francisco area car accident, which officials say, was caused by a drunk driver. According to an NBC News report, the fatal crash occurred early morning on September 21, 2010, when a Ford Explorer driven by 18-year-old Mitchell Pennings…
Merlin James Pruitt , a 73-year-old man in a wheelchair, was killed in a hit-and-run collision in Upper Lake the morning of September 9, 2010. The Lake County Record-Bee reports that Pruitt was found dead on Highway 20. Manuel Herrera, 30, has been arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run in…
Derek Howell, a 30-year-old man from Turlock, was killed in a car accident when the vehicle in which he was passenger ran a stop sign and was struck by a truck. According to a news report in the Modesto Bee, the fatal crash occurred at the intersection of Third Avenue…
A passenger was killed and a driver was injured in a Los Angeles car accident when a vehicle travelling about 100 mph crashed. According to a news report in The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the high-speed car accident happened the afternoon of August 30, 2010 on Turnbull Canyon Road in…
A man, who was fatally injured in a pedestrian accident in the Lakeview Terrace area, has been identified by local authorities as 49-year-old Alberto Sandoval. According to a City News Service report, the fatal collision occurred on Foothill Boulevard when 58-year-old Paula Larene Dautremont lost control of her vehicle, struck…
Four people, identified as James Donald Anderson, 49, Emma Gabriela Anderson, 44, and Andrew David Anderson, 15, and James Edward Rowell, 40, were killed in a Modesto car accident the evening of August 24, 2010. According to a news report in The Modesto Bee, the fatal crash occurred when a…
Jerry Yates, 69, was killed in a dog bite incident after he was mauled on his own property by two large pit bulls that belonged to a neighbor. According to an ABC News report, Yates’s body was found with large bite marks and torn flesh, the afternoon of August 22,…
Mai Hayakawa, 22, was killed in an Anaheim car accident which involved a suspected drunk driver, The Orange County Register reports. California Highway Patrol officials say that the fatal car crash occurred the night of August 22, 2010 on the southbound 57 Freeway’s transition road to the 91 Freeway. Hayakawa…
Three people were killed and four sustained injuries in a Fresno car accident on Highway 140 the afternoon of August 14, 2010. According to a news report in The Fresno Bee, the deceased victims were identified as Chowchilla residents Deana Smith, 39, Michael Smith, 43, and Sharon Law, a 55-year-old…