EL CAJON, CALIFORNIA – The California Highway Patrol sent officers to help stop a Prius with a stuck accelerator on Monday. The vehicle was driving as fast as 94 miles per hour on Interstate 8 near La Posta. The incident happened around 1:30 p.m. in the eastbound lanes. The car was subsequently towed to the [...]
VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA- A pickup driver died Monday after colliding with an Amtrak train in Ventura County. Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham said a northbound Pacific Surfliner collided with the pickup about 10:30 a.m. at a private crossing in Moorpark.
California Highway Patrol office supervisor Sherri Wilson said the only person in the truck died at the [...]
February 28, 2010 – 9:09 pm
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – 31-year-old Sarah Rachelle Phillips was killed in an accident off a highway transition ramp. Phillips was driving her Nissan Xterra south on the Interstate 805 freeway around 11:15 a.m. Saturday when she took the connector ramp to south state Route 15 near City Heights.
At that time, she hit a puddle [...]
February 26, 2010 – 6:40 pm
BRENTWOOD, CALIFORNIA – Police searched Friday for two cars after 13-year-old Julia Siegler was struck and killed while crossing the street on her way to school. The girl was with her mother was she crossed Sunset Boulevard around 7:20 a.m. She was heading south near Cliffwood Drive, according to Andy Smith of the Los Angeles [...]
February 24, 2010 – 9:33 pm
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – An El Cajon man who died after he got out of one car and was hit by another in Crest was identified Wednesday as 43-year-old Cary Floyd Conner, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. Conner was with his girlfriend on Tuesday night around 7:20 p.m. on La Cresta Road near Mountain [...]