Friday, March 12th, 2010

When two horses became trapped in Palmdale, local firefighters were forced to use power tools to break open their trailer. This incident occurred yesterday, around 65 miles from downtown Los Angeles, where two vehicles had just collided in Antelope Valley. According to Los Angeles County fire dispatcher, the crash was reported at a site located [...]

A man suspected of striking LAPD patrol vehicles Friday afternoon has now been captured, reported officials. The suspect hit the patrol vehicle twice – both times intentionally, in efforts to evade capture.
Prior to the collisions that took place, the suspect had stolen the truck in which he was currently traveling. Police said the man stole [...]

In Westwood, a man was killed by his own truck as he stood outside of a bakery. The deadly Los Angeles crash took place over the weekend, during the morning of the 21st.
The man, after exiting his truck, stood outside the bakery and in front of his truck when he was hit. It seems the [...]

An accident between a patrol motorcycle and a pickup truck has left one Los Angeles County motorcycle deputy hospitalized with minor injuries, his bike damaged terribly. The motorcycle accident, which took place on Friday afternoon around 3:20, involved a pickup truck that came onto the head of the motorcycle as it progressed into Newhall Avenue. [...]

Outside Los Angeles in Watts, an unfortunate accident has taken the life of a woman who was struck by the Metro Blue line train. Yesterday afternoon, according to reports, the woman was walking along the tracks of the blue line when the accident took place near 115th street. The woman of her 50s died at [...]

In Northridge, a truck that hit a power pole has knocked out the electrical service to more than 5,000 in the area. On Monday morning, roundabout 6:45 am, the truck was reported to have hit the power pole situated at the 8700 block of Canby.
When the truck accident took place, lines fell to the floor [...]

A jackknifed big rig truck near LA reportedly closed down eastbound freeway 118 into Granada. Reported at around 9 am on Tuesday, it was said that the truck jackknifed in the middle of the freeway, spilling oil across the lanes. Lanes were blocked, and the highway eventually closed while crews pursued to cleanup the spill [...]

Two Los Angeles residents have now filed suit against Toyota alleging a defect in their vehicles causing sudden acceleration. Toyota first began recalling vehicles years ago, and several cases have since made similar claims of defects in Toyota vehicles. The November 5th Seong Bae Choi and Chris Chan Park filed lawsuit seeks class action against [...]

Initial reports showed only that a pilot died in an emergency landing in a parking lot – but later reports have revealed that the pilot who died in a plane crash this past weekend may have, in fact, saved several lives in his unfortunate emergency landing plane crash.Saturday the 14th, the still unidentified pilot flew [...]

Following a car accident in Riverside, police have declared that one person is dead and two others injured. On Friday, a Honda Civic containing the three passengers flew away from the road before it began to roll, finally ending on its roof. The crash occurred at around 2 am, in Riverside near Victoria Avenue and [...]