Articles Posted in Auto Accidents

As most know, the high-profile case involving the death of a San Diego family when the Lexus they were driving sped out of control and crashed has settled. Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to pay relatives of the family of Mark Saylor an undisclosed sum to settle the case. How much? We will probably never…

An empty dump truck ran a red light on Monday and broadsided a small compact car, seriously injuring the woman driving the car. The accident occurred at SR-163 off-ramp to Kearny Villa Road. According to witnesses, the woman entered the intersection on a green light, when the dump truck flew through the intersection, running the…

Caroline McElhaney would have been 53 years old in two weeks. The mother of three, grandmother of five won’t see her next birthday because of the poor judgment of a negligent driver on Interstate 15 near the Ninth Avenue exit. Yesterday during the morning commute, the southbound driver of a 1999 Dodge Ram was coming…

Two men were looking under the hood of their broken down Honda on the left side of northbound I-5 near SR-52 when they were slammed from behind by a large sedan, which was previously hit in what was described as a 5-car accident. The crash caused the two men working on the Honda to be…

Eight high school students and one adult were taken to a local hospital after the school bus they were on crashed and rolled over on its side. The bus accident occurred on El Camino Real at Douglas Dr.in Oceanside. Thankfully, none of the injuries appears to be serious, but one student was taken by helicopter…

San Diego County has had a rash of auto accident fatalities in the last few years involving elderly drivers and teenage drivers. There has been plenty of discussion in local media about when the elderly should stop driving, but now, after another tragic accident involving local high school students, questions are being asked about when…

Four people were seriously injured, including a 12-year-old boy, in a head-on collision on State Route 76 near Escondido. The car accident closed the highway for more than an hour, and two helicopters were needed to transport the victims to the hospital. According to reports, a man driving a late model Toyota Camry westbound unexpectedly…

Car accidents caused by the use of cell phones while driving is starting to show up in statistics. Dave Downey of the Californian has a column this morning about the dangers of driving at night. While the number of people dying in car accidents has been falling over the last decade, the number of deaths…

A major car accident on Interstate 8 has claimed the lives of two people, and seriously injured a third. The accident occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. Monday morning near what is called the Ocean Beach Freeway, where I-8 enters into the Mission Bay area. Details surrounding the accident are unclear, but witnesses say that one…

The San Diego Union Tribune is out with a story today about the risks elderly drivers pose behind the wheel, and the problem of “pedal misapplication.” What is pedal misapplication? An innocuous way of describing what happens when a driver accidentally hits the gas when they think they are applying the brakes. In the article…