WHITTIER, CA (December 20, 2021) – Early in the morning on Monday in Whittier, multiple vehicles crashed on the 605 Freeway. The December 20 crash, which occurred first on the southbound side of the freeway, erupted in flames.
Carlsbad, CA (October 14, 2018) – A young motorcyclist was killed after a collision with a car in Carlsbad Sunday afternoon, October 14th, Carlsbad police reported in a news release. The crash occurred at about 4:35 p.m. on Carlsbad Boulevard near Cannon Road, police said. Officers and emergency medical responders arrived at the scene to find a motorcycle and a Toyota Tundra with extensive damage, and transported the 21-year-old motorcyclist to the hospital, who unfortunately passed en route.
San Mateo, CA (July 17, 2018) – Traffic grinded to a halt after a semi-trailer truck hauling 80,000 pounds of produce collided with a pickup truck causing the semi-trailer to overturn and come to a rest on its side on Highway 92 in San Mateo County early Tuesday morning, July 17th. California Highway Patrol officers responded to reports of a crash in the eastbound lanes of the highway near the Interstate highway 280 and Skyline Boulevard sometime around 4:46 a.m. A white pickup truck that was traveling eastbound lost control and collided into the rear of the semi-trailer truck.
Santa Ana, CA (June 28, 2018) – Parts of the 5 Freeway in Santa Ana was temporarily closed after a motorcyclist was killed in a head-on collision with a wrong-way driver, who was also killed, early Thursday morning, June 28th. The incident occurred sometime before 4:00 a.m. when the driver of a Jaguar S-TYPE entered the 5 Freeway the wrong-way traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of traffic. The Jaguar was traveling in the carpool lanes just as a motorcyclist was traveling northbound in the carpool lane just south of the 22 Freeway. The motorcyclist collided head-on with the Jaguar ejecting the motorcyclist over the jaguar and landing 20 feet away from the wreckage.
Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a wrong-way crash that left 4 people dead following a head-on collision on the 210 Freeway in the Lake View Terrace area in the San Fernando Valley early Sunday morning, Dec. 17th. The fatal collision occurred about 1:45 a.m. after California Highway Patrol dispatchers received calls of a wrong-way driver in the eastbound lanes of the Foothill (210) Freeway in Lake View Terrace After CHP units had responded in search of the wrong-way driver, they started receiving reports of the collision at about 1:52 a.m. stating that the wrong-way driver collided head-on into another vehicle near Wheatland Avenue on the 210 Freeway. A 30-year old Chatsworth man, whom authorities believe was driving the wrong-way vehicle, a 2011 Chevy Impala, was pronounced dead at the scene by first responders.
