Police abandoned pursuit of Jose Gelacio Carreravasquez who fled a traffic stop in Orange one minute before he crashed into another vehicle in Santa Ana on Saturday, April 24. Carreravasquez, in a white Nissan pickup truck, is reported to have taken off when police attempted to stop his vehicle near East Katella Avenue and Wanda Road…
David Kawashima (62) of Orange was tragically killed Sunday, April 18, in Tustin, when a driver suspected of DUI stuck his vehicle while fleeing police. At around 8:45 a.m. Tustin police were called to the 2800 block of Park Avenue to investigate an unresponsive driver in a drive-thru, Irvine police Lt. Bill Bingham said. After a…
Two occupants of a speeding vehicle were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after slamming into a tree in Santa Ana Thursday night, officials said. Drugs are also suspected to have played a role in the crash, Santa Ana police said in a news release. Officers responded to the 3200 block of West Warner Avenue after street-racing activity…
A man, his wife and their two children have been injured after their car was hit by a driver evading police in Santa Ana, according to a news report. Santa Ana police said that a man and a woman suspected of engaging in drug activity were stopped in their Toyota Tundra by police. When the…
Three teenage boys in a black BMW ran a red light in Los Angeles, California, causing total mayhem. The car, driven by a juvenile, hit and killed a pedestrian and then crashed into a school bus, injuring at least 20 people when the bus overturned at the intersection of East 1st Street and Soto Avenue.…
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol (DUI) is a crime that leads to thousands of deaths every year. Groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) have made great strides in reducing the number of alcohol related deaths by lobbying for tougher punishments. Unfortunately, their valiant efforts to curtail drunk driving may have had…
Whether you call it “hit and run” or “leaving the scene of an accident” the result is the same; someone is seriously injured, brain damaged, paralyzed, or killed in an accident, and the responsible party takes off without even stopping to see if the victim needs help. For some reason this offence is growing in…
Nineteen year old Alma Lopez was crossing Vineyard Avenue at Simon Way in Oxnard California with her two young children in a stroller when she became the victim of a pedestrian hit and run accident. Mehran Khamseh, a tow truck driver from Santa Barbara, turned left onto Vineyard Avenue, knocking Lopez over and dragging the…
Luis Miguel Noriega was allegedly driving a stolen Chevy Tahoe when police attempted to stop the man for questioning. Noriega fled from police in the vehicle, and police chased him for two and a half miles down Ramona Boulevard in Baldwin Park, California. The high-speed chase ended when Noriega allegedly ran a red light and…
When Los Angeles Police responded to a call reporting a man with a gun, they immediately found themselves in a high speed pursuit of several men in a car. The suspects very quickly tossed two handguns out of the window of the moving vehicle. Sometime later, the driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed…