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An off duty detective with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department died Wednesday from injuries he suffered in an Irvine bike accident. The man, Detective Duane Parkison, who worked at the Rancho Cucamonga station, was hit by a sports utility vehicle in Irvine, California.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Irvine police are investigating the Irvine bicycle accident. The cause of the bicycle accident in Irvine has either not yet been determined or released.
An accident on the 134 freeway last night caused a man to suffer burn injuries. According to the Los Angeles Times, the man was in a small truck when the truck apparently caught fire on the 134 freeway, close to Forest Lawn Cemetery.
The L.A. Times reports that no other injuries were reported in the Ventura freeway burn injury accident and that there was nobody else inside the vehicle at the time of the incident.
An explosion in Sylmar today has caused serious injuries to four people inside the building. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Sylmar explosion occurred at 12349 Gladstone Avenue in Sylmar, California.
According to reports from Los Angeles firefighters, the Sylmar building explosion caused part of the building to collapse. The Los Angeles Fire Department has said that there may be additional people inside the building who may be trapped.
A Pomona car accident caused the death of a twenty two year old man on the Pomona Freeway early this morning. According to the Los Angeles Times and California Highway Patrol, for unknown reasons, the man crashed his vehicle, a 1991 Acura, into the center divider of the freeway. Shortly thereafter, a Toyota apparently struck the driver’s side of the Acura, killing the man inside the Acura.
The driver of the Toyota, a twenty eight year old man, apparently told the California Highway Patrol that he did not see the disabled Acura before colliding with it. The reasons for the initial Pomona freeway crash are currently unknown. It is also not known why the second driver did not see the disabled Acura before colliding with it.
A Los Angeles car accident on the 105 freeway Thursday night caused the death of one person and injuries to three others. The car accident in Los Angeles apparently happened when a Toyota Camry rear ended a tow truck that was stopped on the shoulder of the 105 freeway. The tow truck was assisting a car with a flat tire at the time.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles freeway accident did not cause injuries to the tow truck driver or to anyone from the car that was being assisted by the tow truck driver. This indicates that the tow truck driver was probably not inside the tow truck at the time of the Los Angeles freeway car accident.
Early this morning, a one car Pacific Coast Highway car accident caused the death of a 30 year old passenger in the car. Also injured in the one car accident on Pacific Coast Highway were six other people, including a 1 year old baby.
Three of the injury victims of the car accident on PCH suffered critical injuries according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The car accident critical injuries were to a women aged 27 and 18, as well as to the baby boy. A picture of the wreck on PCH, from the L.A. Times, shows a badly mangled vehicle with massive front end damage.
Two people died early Monday morning in a Pomona car accident, when a 2008 Infiniti hit a Nissan Maxima, as the Nissan was turning left. The two people who died in the car accident in Pomona were passengers in the Nissan. According to the Pomona Police Department, Lorraine Martinez, who was driving the Nissan, did not have a license and was arrested for a possible auto theft.
Martinez, who is 26 years old, sustained only minor injuries according to the police. According to the Los Angeles Times, Police also said that after the Nissan was impacted by the Infiniti, it was ripped apart and hit a light pole, then became engulfed in fire. There were no immediate reports on the well being of the driver and any passengers in the Infiniti and it is unknown if the passengers died from the Pomona burn injuries or from the impact.
A Los Angeles pedestrian accident in Koreatown on Sunday caused the death of a man who was walking on the sidewalk. According to the Los Angeles Times, an unidentified 73 year old woman first swerved her vehicle into oncoming traffic, then went off the road and up a sidewalk where she struck the pedestrian, causing his death.
The pedestrian, a Los Angeles resident named Yueany Qisquina, was 27 years old. He was pronounced dead after being transported to the hospital. The woman who allegedly caused this pedestrian accident in Los Angeles was not arrested and police did not find any evidence of alcohol or drugs playing a part in causing this Koreatown pedestrian wrongful death.
A West Hills car accident early Saturday morning injured four police officers, including one who suffered very serious injuries. According to the Los Angeles Times, the car accident in West Hills happened when a woman apparently fell asleep on the road and hit a parked police car. Two police officers were then hit by the police car, and two other officers, in another police car, were then hit by the first police car.
As a result of the West Hills car crash, three police officers had to be transported to Northridge Hospital. The officer who sustained catastrophic injuries in the West Hills accident apparently suffered internal injuries and a broken leg. This officer was listed in serious condition. The other two officers who suffered West Hills car accident injuries were treated and released.
Marcos Costa, the Brazilian truck driver who was blamed for a tragic truck accident on Angeles Crest Highway, has been convicted of vehicular manslaughter, for the death of two Palmdale residents who were in a bookstore when they were hit by the big rig truck.
In addition to the two people who died in the La Cañada Flintridge truck accident, other vehicles were also hit by the truck. The jury found Costa not guilty on the 2nd degree murder charges he faced, which would have carried much steeper prison sentences.
According to the Los Angeles Times and Glendale News Press, criminal charges were filed in the truck accident case because the driver allegedly ignored warnings about the brakes on the truck and also went down a steep path that was not appropriate for big rig trucks. Costa was also convicted of reckless driving causing injury.
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