December 22, 2009 – Be it hands-free or hand-held, talking on a cell phone while driving undoubtedly spells danger…and we all know that. But did you know that keying in a mobile phone text message while behind the wheels of a car is even more risky? According to a recent study by researchers at the […]
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December 3, 2009 – A driver heading west on I-8 was killed this morning when his pickup truck veered off the freeway and overturned several times, narrowly missing an SUV before coming to rest in the driveway of a Mission Valley business. The man was heading west about 7:30 a.m. in a white 1990 Toyota
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November 19, 2009 – A tour bus returning from an Iowa casino ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 21, authorities said. The bus, operated by Strain Bus Line Motorcoach Tours in Rochester, was eastbound on I-90 just west of Austin about 3:20 p.m.
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October 15, 2009 – A dramatic roll-over freeway accident in Corona killed a pickup truck driver, injured a pedestrian and smashed about nine vehicles in a parking lot, according to the California Highway Patrol. “This was a pickup-versus-semi,” CHP Officer Jaci Parent said of the initial collision during the 8:47 a.m. wreck along the eastbound
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October 12, 2009 – A Marine and a woman died Saturday in a quick series of early morning crashes on I-15 north of Escondido near Bonsall. One of the drivers may have fallen asleep, and another is suspected of being drunk. The incident began around 4 a.m. Saturday when Chula Vista resident Kyle Cohen, 29,
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October 7, 2009 – A consumer advocacy group says that three million Jeep Grand Cherokees have a potential fire danger from their gas tanks which is so high that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) should order a recall. Grand Cherokees from the 1993 through 2004 model years have “a fatal crash-fire occurrence rate that
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October 5, 2009 – Five 17-year-old Torrey Pines High School students were involved in a rollover crash in Rancho Santa Fe early Sunday that left one boy dead, another hospitalized with critical injuries and a third booked into Juvenile Hall on suspicion of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter, authorities said. The deceased boy’s
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September 22, 2009 – The teenage driver involved in a fatal accident at the intersection of Mission Gorge Road and SR-125 in Santee early Sunday morning had minutes earlier been involved in a hit-and-run collision in La Mesa, La Mesa police said Tuesday. The 17-year-old was driving a black Ford Ranger on Parks Avenue south
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