According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Lidia Kopach, 24, was killed in an auto accident after she lost control of her vehicle and it rolled over. According to court records, Kopach was previously convicted of DUI on September 30, 2009, in West Covina Superior Court. Daniel Martinez, 24, a passenger in Kopach’s vehicle, [...]
According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Romina Polanco, 47, of Monrovia was pronounced dead at the scene when the vehicle she was traveling in lost control and crashed into a tree near Rio Hondo Community College in Industry. Two males occupants of the vehicle were seriously injured. Polanco was sitting in the front [...]
According to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, a 19-year-old man suffered major injuries following a two-car crash about 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 2 on Grand Avenue at Snow Creek Drive. He was hospitalized in critical condition but was upgraded to guarded condition at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. According to authorities, a woman [...]
According to Artist Direct, Grammy-nominated and three million-selling saxophonist Boney James is recovering from injuries he suffered Saturday, May 15 after a drunk driver rear-ended him at 70 MPH while he was stopped in traffic on the 405 freeway. His injuries included a gash in his chin resulting in 14 stitches, a fractured jaw and [...]
According to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Alexander Deleon Velasco, a 21-year-old San Bernardino man, is being detained at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence. A 12-year-old girl was killed and four others seriously injured Sunday when Velasco ran a [...]
According to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, a jury awarded an Upland woman $23.4 million Thursday in a civil judgment against Ford Motor Co. for a 2007 freeway accident that left her a quadriplegic. Cynthia Castillo, 40, lost control of her 1997 Ford Explorer on March 23, 2007, after the tread separated from her left-rear tire [...]
According to Rolling Stone, the frontman of the band Weezer was injured severely enough in a tour bus accident that the band was forced to cancel their remaining December tour dates. Cuomo suffered three cracked ribs, “painful internal damage” (the injuries were later described by Rolling Stone as a cut on his spleen and a [...]
According to the New York Times, Jennifer Smith, 35, is suing the companies that provided phone and wireless service to the driver who was talking on his cellphone when he hit and killed her mother. She hopes to prove that the companies should have foreseen the dangers and that they failed to provide adequate warnings. [...]
According to the Los Angeles Times, Tiger Woods will not be playing in his golf tournament in Thousand Oaks this week and canceled his appearance Tuesday at a pre-tournament news conference following an accident in his car that left him with facial cuts and sparked worldwide speculation about what happened. The accident occurred at [...]
According to ContactMusic.com, Stacy Rowles, 54, a celebrated jazz musician, passed away on October 27, 2009 at her home in Burbank, California following a car accident. Rowles died from complications follwing the collision that occurred on October 13, 2009. Rowles was a jazz trumpeter, fluegelhorn player and singer. She played regularly in several all-female jazz [...]
