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At around 12:20pm, the rear tire of an SUV with several passengers malfunctioned, which caused the driver to lose control, strike the center guardrail, and flip upside-down into the opposing lanes. Of the people in the SUV, three died from the crash, including 2 women and 1 man, and three were injured. The 35-year-old woman and 21-year-old man that were injured were hospitalized with potentially serious injuries, and the 2-year-old girl that was injured was hospitalized with less serious injuries. We will update this accident as more information is released.
A three-vehicle collision left one driver dead on state Route 76 in the Bonsall area Thursday, the California Highway Patrol said.
The crash occurred about 6:50 a.m. at Gird Road during a light rain.
A 36-year-old Oceanside man died after witnesses stopped, pulled him from his wrecked Kia Sephia and started CPR on him, CHP Officer Jim Bettencourt said.
He said witnesses saw the Kia driver going east at high speed until he lost control of the car on a curve. He clipped a westbound Nissan Altima and skidded sideways into the westbound lane.
One person died, six were seriously injured and 13 others suffered minor injuries when a casino-bound charter bus overturned on south Interstate 15 just south of state Route 76 near Bonsall Thursday afternoon, authorities said. This is the second casino tour bus crash today in California.
The 56-year-old driver, from Compton, said the crash occurred about 2:30 p.m. after the bus started to fishtail, said a CHP Officer. The driver tried to correct, and the bus spun around and fell on its side.
Officers and emergency personnel arrived to find a "quite a chaotic" scene.
A 70-year-old man was flown to a medical center with life-threatening injuries when the vehicle he was driving overturned and pinned him inside Sunday morning, fire authorities said.
The man was driving on Little Gopher Canyon Road near Old River Road when the vehicle flew off the road and landed on its roof about 7:15 a.m., said a spokesman for the North County Fire Protection District.
It took firefighters about 40 minutes to free the driver from the vehicle.
The victim was airlifted to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido with life-threatening injuries.