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.
Legal [...]
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 2:25 a.m. [...]
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 groups, [...]
According to the Washington Post, USA soccer player Charlie Davies, was badly injured in a car accident early Tuesday, October 13. He was stable through the night at Washington Hospital Center. He had extensive operations for fractures to his right leg, left elbow and face, as well as for a lacerated bladder.
Davies was transported via [...]
According to Kristina Davis of the Union-Tribune, Sarah Garcia, 21, and a Marine were killed in a sequence of crashes on Interstate 15 on October 11, 2009. Several others were injured. The CHP suspects that a drunken driver was involved.
At 4 a.m. on northbound I-15 near Gopher Canyon Road, a 29-year-old Chula Vista man [...]
According to the PR Web, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Caltrans, Holly Ann Lee, Gaylene Lee, Victoriana Vazquez and Miguel Alvarez for the death of Kimberly Ann Downes. California personal injury lawyers of BISNAR|CHASE filed suit against Caltrans, Holly Ann Lee, Gaylene Lee, Victoriana Vazquez and Miguel Alvarez. The action was brought against the [...]
According to the Los Angeles Times, Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in the 2008 crash that killed a passenger and seriously injured his wife in Ojai.
Avary, the co-writer of “Pulp Fiction” and “Beowulf”, plead guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other charges [...]
According to the Associated Press, on September 15, 2009 Toyota said it will order all dealers to inspect their cars for mismatched floor mats after a mat was suspected of snagging a gas pedal on a runaway Lexus, ending with a fiery crash in Santee, San Diego County that killed CHP Officer Mark Saylor, 45, [...]
