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Taser International has advised police agencies across the United States not to fire stun guns at a suspect’s chest. The company has said that if used in such a way, there is a slight chance of inducing an “adverse cardiac event.” This advisory was sent out in an October 12th training bulletin for law enforcement. This is the first time that Taser has said there is any risk of cardiac arrest related to the discharge of their stun guns, which produce over 50,000 volts of electricity.
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Almost four thousand off-road utility vehicles have been recalled by Bad Boy Enterprises LLC of Massachusetts. These vehicles can accelerate without warning, posing a risk of injury to those operating the vehicle as well as bystanders. The company has received thirty-two reports of unexpected acceleration, several of which were accompanied by injury reports. The product in question is the Bad Boy Buggy Standard model. Affected models have serial numbers between 85004828 and 95010404. They were sold by authorized dealers nationwide from June 2007 through July 2009.
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Nine vehicles were involved in traffic collisions Friday morning on the southbound 5 freeway at Red Hill Avenue, causing debris to fall all over the freeway. CHP officers said there was so much debris that multiple lanes had to be closed. The CHP received a report just before 6 a.m. that a tan Nissan Maxima and a second vehicle had collided and were on the right shoulder. CHP officers said that later reports indicated that at least three other vehicles were involved, and a second report of another multi-vehicle crash came later that morning.
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An SUV flipped over Friday morning on the southbound I-5 south of Culver Drive, causing blockage along the carpool lane, CHP officers said. The incident involved a white Ford Explorer, and was reported at 10:47 a.m. The accident was caused when the Explorer hit the center divider, said CHP officer Tim Zaspal after reporting to the scene. A SigAlert was issued for the carpool lane north of Jeffery Road in order to clear the wreckage, and was cancelled about an hour after the accident was reported. The driver was taken away in an ambulance as a precautionary measure.
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Two men were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries when their two vehicles collided near the I-5 freeway on-ramp at Main Street in Santa Ana. The accident was reported just before noon, and investigation revealed that a motorcyclist was making a left turn to go onto the I-5 southbound freeway when he was struck by an orange Volkswagen GTI traveling northbound in the second lane of Main Street. According to Santa Ana Police Commander Stephen Colon, the motorcyclist and driver were both taken to the hospital to be treated for non-serious injuries.
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A woman was taken to the hospital after crashing her yellow Nissan Xterra into a telephone pole along Imperial Highway on Monday morning. This marked the second crash in Brea that morning, as earlier a man had driven a pickup truck into a concrete light pole along Central Avenue. The second crash took place at about 8am, just east of Valencia Avenue in a westbound lane of Imperial Highway. Two lanes were closed as a result of the accident. The SUV was destroyed, and the woman was recovered after her airbags deployed and the SUV knocked the pole to the ground.
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A Ladera Ranch man is currently facing charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated as a result of a high-speed crash on the 73 toll road. The crash occured on Friday, and took the life of a San Clemente man. Richard Ernest Caselli, thirty-seven, was driving a Volvo sedan in the southbound lane of the 73 at over one hundred miles an hour when he struck a Nissan SUV driven by fifty-two-year-old Brook Boynton.
Authorities say the impact caused the SUV to spin out of control and roll over. Boynton was ejected from the vehicle and killed just after the accident occured.
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A vehicle went up onto the center divider Friday morning at the 57 freeway and Birch Street. It caused major backup in the southband lanes, CHP officers said. The incident, which was reported at 7:22 Friday morning, involved two vehicles – a tan Toyota Camry and a silver Honda Civic, CHP said. The HOV lane of the southbound 57 had been blocked because the Civic went over the center divider. The fire department was called to the scene, where the female driver of the Civic informed them that she was alright.
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A police chase lead to the death of a San Francisco woman, and her 20-month-old child was taken to a hospital with critical injuries, on August 26, 2009. The crash occured in Oakland, California, when a man in an Acura Integra who was fleeing police ran a stop sign and smashed into the back of her black Hyundai Accent. The police were reportedly attempting to stop the man for speeding.
The impact of the crash was so strong that it pushed the woman’s Accent for almost a block. The suspect was later arrested, and an internal investigation is underway concerning the Oakland Police Department’s pursuit policy.
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A tragic car accident claimed the life of 58-year-old John Paul Hamon of Weldon, California. The fatal accident happened when Michael Rapport, 63, was traveling on the highway 178 in Kern County, when one of several two-by-four boards fell from the top of his truck, striking and penetrating the driver’s side windshield of Hamon’s Ford Explorer. Hamon sustained critical injuries to the head and died almost instantly. His SUV rolled off the road for almost one thousand feet. Rapport is facing an investigation and could be charged. Hamon’s passenger, 67-year-old Leta Johnson, was taken to a hospital nearby with moderate injuries.
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