Articles Posted in DUI Accidents

A suspected drunk driver from Santa Ana ran a red light in Lake Elsinore and caused a crash that left one person dead and two others injured on the night of Aug. 13.

According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the driver fled the scene of the fatal crash before being arrested. The collision occurred at the intersection of Lake Street and Grand Avenue. Officials said the suspect’s SUV was going north when it struck a sedan that was facing south and turning east onto Lakeshore Drive. Continue reading →

An 18-year-old has been accused of reckless driving and DUI after a fatal five-car crash in northwest Las Vegas.

According to a KTNV news report, the driver, since identified as Jerry Madera, was traveling west on Washington Avenue at a high rate of speed on the afternoon of July 19 when the accident occurred.

Madera’s 2007 Toyota RAV4 failed to stop at the red light at the intersection with Torrey Pines Drive, investigators said. This caused a chain-reaction crash resulting in one fatality. Continue reading →

Angelica Lopez, 62, and Nathan Lizarraga, 14, both of Whittier, were killed in a car crash in Pico Rivera, which officials say was caused by a DUI driver. According to a report in the Whittier Daily News, the fatal crash occurred early morning on May 14. Officials say a black Mercedes sedan heading east on Whittier Boulevard collided with a Honda sedan traveling west. Continue reading →

The driver of a vehicle was killed in a car crash in Upland on the night of May 3, which authorities believe was caused by a suspected DUI driver.

According to a news report in The Press-Enterprise, the fatal crash occurred on Campus Avenue just south of Foothill Boulevard. Police said the suspect, 29-year-old Marcos Enriquez, was speeding on Campus Avenue when he hit another car. Continue reading →

Aaron Mcdonald, 31, and his girlfriend Irene Jaramillo, 30, were killed in a car crash in Bloomington when the vehicle they were in was struck by a suspected drunk driver.

According to an NBC Los Angeles news report, police said 21-year-old Alejandro Conchola ran a red light at Randall Avenue and Cedar Avenue in Bloomington and struck the couple’s vehicle early on the morning of April 1, causing fatal injuries. Continue reading →

Gloria Henry, 71, was struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver while walking along a Murrieta sidewalk.

According to a City News Service report, the fatal pedestrian collision occurred on the morning of Wednesday, March 23, on Clinton Keith Road just east of Via Mariposa. Murrieta police arrested 57-year-old Rodney Wayne Phillips of Hemet on suspicion of drunk driving. Continue reading →

Three people were injured in what officials say was a DUI crash involving 47-year-old Lori Gallo, the wife of a California cheese magnate, who they say was drunk and speeding at more than 125 mph when she attempted to pass a vehicle on a two-lane road in Merced and sideswiped it.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the high-speed crash sent Gallo’s Maserati barreling into a ditch. Three other cars were damaged in the wreck, and three people were injured. Continue reading →

A woman was fatally injured in a Los Angeles car accident, which officials say, was caused by a suspected DUI driver. According to a KTLA news report, the fatal crash occurred the evening of March 2 when the driver of a Chevy truck that was traveling at a high rate of speed on Woodley Avenue ran a red light and crashed into a Nissan sedan. LAPD officials said the Nissan was making a left turn onto westbound Parthenia Street from Woodley Avenue when the collision happened. Continue reading →

A 22-year-old man has been charged in connection with a fatal crash on the 91 Freeway in Orange County that left one person dead.

According to a report in The Orange County Register, Tyler Christian Williams was charged with felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, driving under the influence with blood alcohol over the legal limit of 0.08%, DUI causing injury, and hit-and-run causing permanent and serious injury. Continue reading →

A 13-year-old girl and her mother died on Jan. 2 after their car was struck by another vehicle whose driver ran a red light and was driving under the influence, officials said.

According to a report in the Whittier Daily News, Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies arrested 26-year-old Brittany Lopez of Las Vegas on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and driving without a license. Continue reading →