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Truck Driver Charged with Misdemeanor in Fatal Big Rig Accident

Posted on December 26, 2008
A Modesto truck driver has been charged with one count of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for his role in a fatal truck accident. The truck driver crashed an out of control big rig and killed 9 year old Tyler Fahy of...

Orange County Street Intersection Accident Victims Receive $8.3 Million Jury Award

Posted on December 25, 2008
A jury has found that the city of San Juan Capistrano must pay $8.3 million in damages to Trenton Merrill and Scott Agostini. The two boys were seriously injured in a 2005 accident because of a dangerous condition at a...

Activist Shines Spotlight on Tragedies Caused by Runaway Trailers

Posted on December 24, 2008
I came across this interesting column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that talks about an issue that has been of great concern to me ? runaway trailer accidents. Runaway trailers usually occur as a result of not being properly secured to...

Laguna Hills Woman Mauled by Pack of Unsecured Dogs

Posted on December 24, 2008
Two Laguna Hills residents were attacked and bitten by three bullmastiffs on December 18, 2008 after the dogs got out of their fenced yard, according to this ABC News report. The large dogs weighing between 100 to 150 pounds got...

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Riverside Dog Owner Attacked and Killed By his Own Pit Bulls

Posted on December 23, 2008
Gerald Adelmund, 60, of Rubidoux, was mauled to death by his own two pit bulls when he stepped into the backyard of his home to smoke on December 19, 2008. According to this news report in The Riverside Press-Enterprise, Riverside...

Orange County Street Racing Accident Claims Teen?s Life

Posted on December 23, 2008
An 18-year-old man killed during a December 19, 2008 fatal Orange County street racing accident has been identified as Jose Merino Pacheco of Mission Viejo. Pacheco had three other passengers in his car and was racing another car driven by...

Officials Reject Letter Grades for Orange County Restaurants

Posted on December 22, 2008
The Orange County Board of Supervisors has rejected their own health department and grand jury?s recommendations that Orange County restaurants adopt either a color coded system or a letter-grade system to let consumers know how their establishment scored on their...

Federal Agency?s New Online Tool Rates Nursing Homes

Posted on December 21, 2008
A new Web site launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services on December 18, 2008 will help consumers evaluate nursing home care. According to this news report in the Bakersfield Californian, the agency will launch a Five Star...

Obama Administration Expected to Handle New Roof Strength Standard

Posted on December 19, 2008
A much-awaited federal vehicle roof strength rule is being relegated to the back burner yet again by the Bush administration for the next administration to handle. The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that it would not meet the Dec....

Santa Clarita Helicopter Accident Kills Mechanic

Posted on December 19, 2008
Curtis Dale Cauthen, 31, was killed in a December 17, 2008 in a Santa Clarita helicopter accident. According to this KTLA news report, Cauthen, a mechanic for Swanson Aviation, was killed when a gust of wind caused a helicopter to...

Former Funeral Home Director Faces Civil Lawsuit

Posted on December 19, 2008
A former funeral director of an Arizona funeral home has been named as the defendant in a civil lawsuit. The man who filed the lawsuit claims that employees at the funeral home stole valuable items left on his deceased father?s...

Rancho Cucamonga Recycling Worker Killed On-the-Job

Posted on December 18, 2008
A recycling worker killed on the job in Rancho Cucamonga on December 10, 2008 was identified as 41-year-old Efre Aceituno-DeLeon. According to this news report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Aceituno-DeLeon was fatally injured as he was working on...

Lead Tainted Defective Toys Cost Mattel $12 Million

Posted on December 18, 2008
Toy manufacturer Mattel Inc. will pay $12 million to 39 states in order to settle an investigation over lead-tainted toys made in China and sold in the United States in 2007. Mattel and its subsidiary Fisher Price recalled more than...

Anaheim Train versus Auto Collision Kills Woman

Posted on December 17, 2008
Linda Krueger-Small, 68, of Lake Forest was killed after she was struck by a freight train on December 15, 2008. The Anaheim train accident occurred after Krueger-Small?s car became stuck on the railroad tracks near Lakeview and Orangethorpe avenues. A...

Anaheim Education Center Building Roof Collapse Injures 14

Posted on December 17, 2008
Twelve students and two teachers at the North Orange County Regional Occupational Program building in Anaheim were taken to the hospital with injuries after the roof of the adult classrooms collapsed on December 15, 2008 because a main drain failed.....

Family of Balloon Accident Victim Settles For $1.4 Million

Posted on December 16, 2008
The family of an Oceanside, California woman who fell to her death during an October 2007 hot air balloon accident in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has reached a $1.4 million settlement with the company that managed the balloon rides. According to...

Hayward Big Rig Accident Kills Man

Posted on December 16, 2008
Vu Huy Phan, a 32-year-old Oakland man, was killed in a December 12, 2008 big rig accident after a large truck struck his car on Interstate 880 in Hayward. According to a news report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Phan...

Orange County Freeway Accident Kills Toddler

Posted on December 15, 2008
Two-year-old Sofia Sales died after her father?s sport utility vehicle was involved in a multi-vehicle auto accident on the northbound 55 Freeway in Orange on December 11, 2008. According to this news report in The Orange County Register, Sofia?s father,...

Northridge Pedestrian versus Auto Accident Injures Three

Posted on December 12, 2008
Three men in their 20s were seriously injured while trying to cross a Northridge street on December 10, 2008, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. The three men were struck by a car at Louise Avenue and Roscoe Boulevard while...

San Diego Jet Crash Survivor Searches for Answers

Posted on December 12, 2008
Officials have identified the four people who died in the December 8, 2008 F-18 plane crash in San Diego as Young Mi Yoon, 36; her two daughters 15-month-old Grace and 2-month-old Rachel and mother 60-year-old Suk Im Kim. The only...

Medtronic Denies Wrongful Death Claim

Posted on December 11, 2008
Medtronic Inc, a medical device maker, is contesting claims that it is responsible for the death of a California woman whose doctor inserted a bone-growth protein into her neck. According to this news report in the St. Paul Business Journal,...

Anaheim Nursing Home Residents Abused by Nursing Assistant

Posted on December 11, 2008
A 35-year-old male nursing assistant has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two women in his care at Anaheim Terrace Care Center in the 100 block of South Knott Avenue. One of Alejandro Arias? victims is 84 years old...

Fresno ATV Accident Kills Teenager

Posted on December 10, 2008
A teenager who was killed in a Fresno ATV accident on December 6, 2008 has been identified as 16-year-old Alyssa Wiley. According to this news report in the Fresno Bee, the off-road vehicle accident occurred in the 13000 block of...

Anaheim Motorcycle Accident Kills Man

Posted on December 09, 2008
Ralph Mongenel. 61, of Santa Ana, was killed in an Anaheim motorcycle accident on December 6 2008, The Orange County Register reports. Mongenel was riding south on Brookhurst Street under the 91 Freeway in Anaheim when he hit the center...

Yorba Linda Pedestrian Accident Kills Woman

Posted on December 09, 2008
Carol Sue Patterson, 67, was killed in a Yorba Linda pedestrian accident on December 6, 2008, The Orange County Register reports. Patterson was crossing Bastanchury Road near Prospect Avenue with 80-year-old Ronald Iver Severson when they were both hit by...

F-18 Plane Crash in San Diego Claims Three Lives

Posted on December 09, 2008
Three people are dead and one other is presumed dead after a U.S. Military jet crashed around noon on December 8, 2008 in University City, San Diego. According to this news report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, a mother, her...

Nursing Home Aides Charged With Abusing Residents

Posted on December 08, 2008
Two teenage girls, who worked at a Minnesota nursing home, are being charged with physically, emotionally and sexually abusing elderly Alzheimer?s patients at the facility, according to this shocking MSNBC News report. Brianna Broitzman, 19, and Ashton Larson, 18, allegedly...

Cypress Police Face Legal Claim After Police Dog Bites Woman

Posted on December 06, 2008
A 22-year-old woman who was bitten by a police dog while sleeping in the garage of a Cypress home, has filed a legal claim against the city and the police department, The Orange County Register reports. Apparently, the police department?s...

San Diego County Hit-and-Run Bicycle Accident Kills Man

Posted on December 05, 2008
California Highway Patrol officials in San Diego County are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck and ran over bicyclist, 30-year-old Edward Costa in Alpine on December 2, 2008. According to this NBC news report, the 12/2/08 fatal San Diego...

Ford Crown Victoria Rollover Accident Injures Man

Posted on December 05, 2008
William Finke, an 82-year-old passenger in a 2000 Crown Victoria, was seriously injured in a rollover collision in Dixon, California, on December 1, 2008. According to a news article in The Vacaville Reporter, the 12/1/08 rollover crash occurred on Highway...

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