A study recently released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety finds that hit and run accidents are rising. In fact, they are at an all-time high since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NHTSA, started keeping track of these accidents in 1975. Last year there were more than 2,000 fatalities reported nationwide as a…
A female high school student was hit and killed by a driver while walking on the sidewalk near Mission Hills High School. The senior was hit by a black BMW which was reportedly driven by another teen. The vehicle was traveling west on East Mission Road in San Marcos when it struck the pedestrian. The…
A 58-year-old bicyclist was seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle in Flinn Springs. The accident occurred in the afternoon on Olde Highway 80. According to the California Highway Patrol, CHP, a Toyota Sienna drifted to the right out of its lane and hit the bicyclist who was also traveling in the same direction….
April has been designated as Distracted Driving Awareness Month. The designation comes as California marks a decade of hands-free restricted driving. The hands-free cell phone law (Senate Bill 1613) and the no-texting law (Senate Bill 28) were put in place in 2008. While the laws have been in place for 10 years, there are still…
A new report published by the National Safety Council, NSC, finds that the third leading cause of death in the United States is now preventable accidents. This category rose about 10% over the previous year. According to the data, more than 161,000 people died from preventable injuries in 2016. A person is killed every three…
Distracted driving is one of the most common causes of car accidents. When a driver is distracted, it can take just a few seconds to get into a collision. There are a number of reasons for the recent increase in the number of accidents attributed to distracted driving. Most notably, the use of cell phones…
A driver who was waiting near his disabled vehicle while it was being towed was hit and killed by another driver. The accident occurred on an off-ramp on SR-94 in Lemon Grove. A man’s pickup truck with a utility trailer was disabled and pulled to the side of the road. A tow truck driver was…
A bicyclist was struck and killed while riding in a bicycle lane on SR-76 in Oceanside. The crash occurred at 10:55 am when a Honda Accord veered into the bicycle lane striking the cyclist. Paramedics performed CPR on the man, who was airlifted to the hospital where he later died. The driver stayed at the…
A woman was hospitalized after a head-on collision in Poway. The accident happened on Route 67, near Cloudy Moon Drive, when a pickup truck crossed the center line and struck a passenger vehicle. The Ford F-250 rolled before both vehicles came to a stop in the southbound lane of traffic. The Hyundai Sonata was apparently…
Accidents occur every day. Fortunately, they are usually minor. Sometimes, however, an accident is extremely serious. A woman driving on a College area road is lucky to be alive after having survived a dangerous crash that sent her vehicle careening down a 50-foot drop. Vehicle Went Airborne Witnesses said they saw the woman’s vehicle hit…
