SUV flips over, blocks freeway lanes.

Date: 02/15/2010
Time: Around 6:15 A.M.
Location: Seal Beach, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Isuzu Trooper

By Alejandra Molina / The Orange County Register
 
"SEAL BEACH – A white SUV flipped over and blocked lanes after colliding with a semi truck on the southbound I-405 freeway just north of Seal Beach Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The accident was reported at 6:17 a.m.

Reports made to the CHP indicated there were minor head injuries.
Up to six vehicles were reported on the right shoulder.
The No. 3 and 4 lanes were blocked. Lanes were clear by 7:16 a.m."

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Teen survives 100mph crash in Chowchilla.

Date: 02/21/2012
Time: Afternoon
Location: Chowchilla, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Chevy Camaro

By ABC30HD

"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A teenager is recovering Wednesday following a racing accident in Chowchilla.
Police say the teen was racing with another underage driver on Robertson Boulevard near 8th Street on Tuesday.
The teen's car hit speeds of up to 100 miles an hour until it slide off the road and hit a palm tree. Rescuers had to use the Jaws of Life to get him out.
He survived, but his condition has not been released."

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Man knocks down big tree in SUV crash.

Date: 04/17/2011
Time: Around 10:00 P.M.
Location: Bakersfield, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Jeep Grand Cherokee

By Eyewitness News and BakersfieldNow.com

"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A man is reportedly in critical condition after slamming his SUV into a tree.
The impact knocked over the sizable tree around 10 p.m. Sunday.
Witnesses described the man, 31-year-old Jagjit Sing Kahlon, driving without headlights before veering onto the median on White Lane near Pontiac Street, where he hit the tree, according to police.
Alcohol appears to be a factor in the crash, police Sgt. Mary DeGeare said."

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BMW plummets from mall parking garage.

Date: 08/04/2012
Time: Around 1:15 P.M.
Location: Mission Valley, San Diego, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: BMW X5, Kia Sorento, Mercedes-Benz S-Class

By Kristina Davis and Ashly McGlone

"MISSION VALLEY — A BMW crashed over the edge of a third-story parking structure at Fashion Valley, injuring a passenger when it landed on its roof onto two parked cars Saturday.

The crash occurred about 1:15 p.m. near Cheesecake Factory and Nordstrom.

Police Officer Frank Cali said the driver of a silver BMW X5 was trying to back out of the space when another driver was passing by. The man pulled back into the space to let the car pass. On a second attempt to exit the space, another driver approached and honked the horn. When pulling back into the space, the man accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brake, causing the SUV to plunge over the side of the structure, police said.

The SUV teetered for a bit before it flipped, landing on its roof on the front end of a Kia Sorrento and the back end of a Mercedes Benz sedan, shattering the glass on both vehicles.

The driver, who appeared to be in his 70s, was able to get out of the BMW on his own, police and witnesses said. His girlfriend, who was a passenger, was trapped in the wreckage. Witnesses did not want to further injure her and waited for paramedics to extricate her, said Chad Robley, who saw the crash and stopped to help.

She was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, said San Diego police accident investigator Mike Gottfried. The driver did not require hospitalization. No one on the ground was hurt.

The Kia and the Mercedes were parked illegally, police said.

One ground-level entrance to the parking garage was closed by mall officials, but all three levels of the parking garage remained open during the investigation."

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All lanes are reopened on westbound 10 Freeway in El Monte.

Date: 07/24/2012
Time: Around 4:00 A.M.
Location: El Monte, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford Windstar, truck

By Pasadena StarNews

"EL MONTE - All lanes of the westbound 10 Freeway were reopened late Tuesday morning at Peck Road, the site of an earlier fatal accident, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Three of the four lanes were closed for more than six hours Tuesday after a minivan driver was killed and two road construction workers were injured. The accident occured at 4:14 a.m. Tuesday, said the CHP.
Traffic lanes were reopened by around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to the CHP, but not before creating a major traffic slowdown from El Monte to West Covina that may have added more than an hour to commute time for motorists driving to Los Angeles.
CHP Officer Ed Jacobs says a Ford Aerostar rear-ended a road work truck as the crew picked up traffic cones on westbound 10.

Jacobs says the minivan's driver died. Two road workers were taken to the hospital with minor to moderate injuries.

Jacobs says he can't confirm TV reports that a dog in the minivan also was killed.

The crash follows a Sunday accident that killed two road workers on Interstate 405 in Torrance. Authorities say two suspected drunken drivers collided, and one car slammed into repaving equipment."

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Sacramento California Corvette Crash Claims One Life.

Date: 11/07/2011
Time: Around 9:45 A.M.
Location: Sacramento, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Chevy Corvette, Semi truck

By Lauren Hargrove

"Following a fatal car crash in Sacramento, California, Interstate 5 was shut down for two hours while officers and emergency personnel pieced together the circumstances of the crash. KCRA reported that black Corvette had collided with a semi-truck near the Garden Highway off-ramp. Initial reports stated that the two people in the Corvette were transported to local hospitals with serious injuries. After viewing the graphic pictures on the KCRA website it is hard to imagine that anyone could have survived the collision after seeing what remained of the Corvette. According to the Sacramento Bee, the female passenger succumbed to injuries sustained during the crash. (censored), 65, of Elk Grove, California died after the Monday November 7, 2011 collision.

According to others to who witnessed the accident, the driver of the Corvette was in the far left lane when the car was spotted weaving in the lane. Shortly after weaving in and out of the lane, the driver lost control of the car causing it to clip a passenger car before slamming into the side of the semi-truck. After the Corvette slammed into the large truck it went off the embankment near the Garden Highway exit. Currently, there are no reports on the condition of driver or what may have caused him or her to lose control of the car that fateful morning. Fortunately, the occupants of the other car and semi-truck were not physically injured during the traumatic crash."

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Woman dead, driver badly injured in East County freeway crash.

Date: 07/06/2011
Time: Around 12:45 P.M.
Location: near Live Oak Springs, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Chevy Silverado Z71

By Pauline Repard U-T San Diego

"EAST COUNTY — A woman died in a rollover crash of a pickup during a Wednesday afternoon downpour on Interstate 8 near Live Oak Springs and the male driver suffered major injuries, authorities said.

Michael Shelton, 65, of Brawley, was westbound about 12:45 p.m. when he lost control of his Chevrolet pickup, California Highway Patrol Officer Brian Pennings said.

Pennings said Shelton was going too fast for rainy conditions, and his truck tires were bald.

The pickup flipped four or five times off the freeway, down an embankment and across the on-ramp at Crestwood Road, coming to rest on its wheels, Pennings said.

He said the driver and his passenger were wearing seat belts, but the woman died instantly of massive injuries. Shelton also suffered major injuries. He was taken by ambulance to an area where a medical helicopter could land, away from the rain, and take him to a hospital."

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Suspected DUI crash shuts down Ingraham in PB.

Date: 06/29/2012
Time: Around 4:50 A.M.
Location: San Diego, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford F-150

By Debbie Baker, UT San Diego

"SAN DIEGO — A 63-year-old suspected drunken driver and his 41-year-old female passenger were injured early Friday when the truck they were in slammed into a wall in Pacific Beach.

The crash on Ingraham Street near Crown Point Drive was reported at 4:50 a.m., San Diego police said.

The Ford F-150 hit the wall at a high speed and both occupants had to extricated by firefighters, police said.

The pair were hospitalized and are expected to survive. The woman suffered serious leg injuries.

Ingraham was shut down between Buena Vista Street and West Mission Bay Drive and was reopened about 10 a.m., police said.

A traffic alert has been issued."

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2 Hurt After SUV Crashes Into Apartment Building.

Date: 06/09/2012
Time: Around 11:30 A.M.
Location: San Diego, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Kia Spectra

By 10News

"SAN DIEGO -- Two people were injured and two others were displaced on Saturday after a vehicle crashed into a North Park apartment building, according to San Diego police and fire officials.
The incident occurred at about 11:26 a.m. at a building in the Canyonwood Apartments in the 1800 block of Upas Street.
The incident occurred at about 11:26 a.m. at a building in the Canyonwood Apartments in the 1800 block of Upas Street.
A man in his 70s was driving a Kia SUV on Upas Street when the SUV accidentally went through a wood fence. The SUV went down a 50-foot embankment before it rolled over and crashed into the apartment building.
"I thought that huge earthquake had happened and then I went into my living room... I went into my bedroom and saw a car up against the window," said neighbor Jim Chatham.
A witness said he was driving behind the SUV before the crash occurred. He said it was going slowly before it came to a stop and then flew off the hill.
"They were going really slow," said witness Rich Rogalski. "I happened to notice a handicap sticker on their license plate." He added, "I'm sitting here making a right-hand turn on this driveway and they flew... They sped up and flew right off this street." It is unclear what exactly caused the crash. The driver and his female passenger – who was in her 60s – were extricated from the wreckage and were both taken to a local hospital. The passenger suffered back pain, and the driver suffered a major head injury and a severe injury to his hand. Eight adults were initially evacuated from 12 of the building's units and a building engineer had been called in, according to a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher. Most of the residents were allowed to return to their homes, however two remained displaced, the dispatcher said. Two units were damaged and deemed uninhabitable until further inspection. Two others had their gas turned off, Battrick said. It took rescue crews several hours to remove the SUV. They said that process is sometimes risky. "Since there is structural compromise into the building, removing that vehicle might be the only thing that's actually securing that," said San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Capt. Eugene Scott. The San Diego police Traffic Division is investigating the crash."

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Man killed when pickup smashes into pole in Irvine.

Date: 06/06/2012
Time: Around 10:20 P.M.
Location: Irvine, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Ford F-150

By SALVADOR HERNANDEZ / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

"IRVINE – A man was killed when his pickup crashed into a pole Wednesday night, authorities said.
Details on how the crash occurred were not immediately available, but authorities said it was reported at about 10:20 p.m. at Von Karman and Anchor.
The Ford F150 pickup appeared to have crashed into a light pole. No other vehicles were involved in the accident, said Lt. Julia Engen of the Irvine Police Department.
The driver was the vehicle was identified by coroner's officials as (Censored), a 51-year-old man from Capistrano Beach. He was pronounced dead at 10:22 p.m.
Officers with the Irvine Police Department were on scene within a minute, but found him dead, Engen said.
The crash is still under investigation."

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Driver Killed in Train vs. Car Accident in Placentia.

Date: 12/09/2011
Time: Around 8:00 A.M.
Location: Placentia, CA
Vehicle(s) Involved: Train, Toyota Corolla

By KTLA News

"PLACENTIA (KTLA) -- A driver was killed Friday morning in a collision between a car and a train in Placentia.

The accident happened just before 8 a.m. on tracks that run parallel with Orangethorpe Ave.
The car was struck by a Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad freight train as it was traveling eastbound across the intersection of E. Orangethrorpe Ave. and Tustin Ave.
The car was pushed about a quarter mile down the tracks, and came to rest at the intersection of South Jefferson Street.
The driver of the vehicle, a man in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
His identity was not immediately released.
There were no passengers in the car.
No one onboard the train was injured.
The cause of the crash is now under investigation.
Orangethorpe was closed for a time at the intersections of Miller, Tustin Ave. and S. Jefferson."

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Off-Duty SDPD Officer Among 2 Killed In I-15 Crash.

Date: 10/01/2011
Time: Around 3:05 A.M.
Location: San Diego, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Mazda 6, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, Chevy Silverado 1500, Kia Spectra

By 10News.Com

"SAN DIEGO -- An off-duty San Diego police officer was one of two people killed in a series of crashes involving several vehicles on a San Diego freeway on Saturday, authorities said.
Officer (Name), 34, was traveling south on Interstate 15 in a 2011 Mazda 6 about 3:05 a.m. when he crashed into 1992 Honda Accord which was stopped for an unknown reason south of Mira Mesa Boulevard, according to police and the California Highway Patrol. Both vehicles were heavily damaged.
Moments later, a 1998 BMW sideswiped the Honda, according to CHP Officer Art Athans. Its driver was not injured.
Two additional vehicles approached the crash and collided shortly after, Athans said. The two drivers sustained minor injuries and were taken to a hospital.The off-duty police officer then got out of his vehicle and ran across two lanes to render aid to the driver involved in the first crash and requested medical assistance, Athans said. He was struck by a 2010 Toyota Corolla, driven by an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, as he then attempted to run to the shoulder, Athans said.Both Prokop and the driver of the Honda, a 21-year-old Palmdale woman whose name was not immediately released, were pronounced dead at the scene by emergency personnel, according to police and the CHP.Southbound Interstate 15 was closed for several hours following the crash, Athans said. All lanes were reopened by 12:30 p.m.The California Highway Patrol continued to investigate the crash, but said no arrests were made for alcohol or drugs and all parties involved wore seatbelts.Prokop was a 5-year veteran of the San Diego Police Department, police said. He had been assigned to the Central Division since July 2007.Prokop was the sixth San Diego police officer to die in the past year, according to the San Diego Police Officers Association. He is survived by his wife, two young children and parents."Another citizen soldier has made the ultimate sacrifice doing what he did best, serving his community," said Brian R. Marvel, SDPOA president. "His life gave meaning to the pledge every officer and service member takes to protect and serve his fellow man."The San Diego Police Officers Association has established a trust fund for the Prokop's family.Donations can be mailed to:
Officer Jason Prokop Family Trust
c/o San Diego Police Officers Association
8388 Vickers Street
San Diego, CA 92111
Checks can be made payable to the San Diego Police Officers Association (SDPOA). Please write "Officer Jason Prokop" in the memo line. Any donations (100 percent) will go directly to the family.You can also make a donation through the SDPOA's website."

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Sanger man dies in pickup collision.

Date: 09/19/2011
Time: Around 10:20 A.M.
Location: Fresno, California
Vehicle(s) Involved: Toyota Tacoma, Dodge Ram

By The Fresno Bee

"A Sanger man died Monday in a collision between two pickups southeast of Fresno.
The Fresno County Coroner's Office identified the man as Xay Mouonoutoua, 76.
Mouonoutoua was driving a Toyota pickup west on Church Avenue about 10:20 a.m. when he failed to yield the right of way at Temperance Avenue and was broadsided by a southbound Dodge pickup, California Highway Patrol Sgt. Kevin Acosta said.
Mouonoutoua died at the scene. The driver of the Dodge appeared to suffer minor injuries."

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