Category: Fatal Motor Vehicle Accidents

If you are like many people in the Sacramento area, you will be spending Sunday watching the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 49. But if you plan on watching the game at someplace other than your own home, or you venture out after the game, be on the lookout…

Although traffic is sparse, the roads are frequented by farm workers, like the ones who were killed in the crash earlier this month. In order to help keep these workers safe, the California Highway Patrol launched a program more than 10 years ago called the Safety and Farm Labor Vehicle Education Program. Under the program,…

Sacramento Police say they think drugs or alcohol may have played a role in a wrong way accident on eastbound Interstate 80 that left three people dead early Saturday morning. The tragedy occurred when a 24-year-old Roseville man was traveling the wrong way on I-80 around 2:10 a.m. and crashed into another vehicle head-on. Police…

Most Bay Area residents have driven across the Golden Gate Bridge at least once in their lives, and for some the experience was terrifying, especially if they found themselves in the middle “suicide lanes.” Until recently, the middle lanes on the 1.7-mile long bridge were only separated by small, plastic pylons, which made head-on collisions…

Although we have just entered 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has just released statistics on the fatal car accidents that occurred in the United States in 2013. According to the new data, highway deaths decreased by 3.1 percent in 2013 from the year before. What’s even more remarkable is that the data…

Welcome back to our third and final post on truck underride accidents this week. As we stated previously, truck underride accidents have been a major problem on American roads for several decades, though it is a problem that has largely been ignored by regulators. However, one woman — with the help of social media —…

Welcome back. This week we are discussing truck underride accidents on our blog. As we stated in our last post, truck underride accidents have been going on for decades, but the issue seldom gains national attention. In fact, the last time truck underride accidents were in the national spotlight was in 1967 when actress Jayne…

If you have ever been driving behind a tractor trailer you may have noticed two vertical steel bars that extend from the fame of the truck and connect with a horizontal steel bar. This feature is known as an underride guard and has been required on the backs of most large trucks and trailers since…

Last week was a deadly one on northern California’s roads. According to reports, the California Highway Patrol had six unrelated fatal car accident investigations going as of Saturday afternoon in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Gate reported. The rash of fatalities began on Thursday evening when a 23-year-old San Lorenzo man was killed in…

One person was killed and 30 others were injured, some critically, in a tour bus accident in northern California on Sunday. The tour bus was reportedly on its way from Los Angeles to Pasco, Washington, when it coasted off of the freeway and overturned around 7:30 a.m. about 100 miles south of the Oregon border….