Advanced Search
A 5-year-old boy was struck and killed by a Modesto city bus on his way to meet his mother after school.
Investigators say school at Tuolumne Elementary had let out and the kindergartner was crossing the street to meet his mother on the other side.
“He dashed out between two cars right into the bus,” a neighbor said.
That’s when the city bus ran him over. The boy would die at the scene.
“She was just going spastic, but you can understand it, because she was so upset,” said a witness. “Her child is laying there dead, and she can’t do anything about it.”
Three of the four men involved in the crash about 2 a.m. at NW 23 and N Shartel Avenue have been identified.
Victor Troung, 21, and Timothy Tran, 20, died. Thomas Tran, 22, is in critical condition at OU Medical Center. The fourth person is also a male in critical condition, but will not be identified until his family is notified, police said.
Their car, driven east on NW 23, slammed into a vacant building at the intersection about 2 a.m.
Traffic fatality investigators arrived about 3 a.m. The intersection remained closed at 4:20 a.m.,
A California Highway Patrol officer was hospitalized after crashing into a fire hydrant early Thursday morning during a pursuit that reached speeds around 85 mph and ended with three people in custody.
The pursuit began southeast of downtown Los Angeles after the subjects in a white van failed to stop for officers who responded to reports of vehicle burglaries, Downey police told City News Service. The pursuit continued on the 605 and 5 freeways before the driver exited onto surface streets.
All westbound lanes of Interstate 40 westbound have reopened just east of Atrisco Vista after a crash between two semi-trucks.
Authorities said a semi-truck carrying water was rear-ended by another semi-truck. All the water from the first truck spilled on to the interstate.
The impact caused the cab of the second semi-truck to rollover.
The driver of the first semi was uninjured. The driver of the second semi was able to crawl out of the overturned cab. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The family of a little boy who was the victim of a hit-and-run while crossing Koenig Boulevard Thursday is asking for privacy and thanking friends for their support. Amir Russ, 2, was at the intersection near Spring Brook Village in Kingston just after 10 p.m. when he was struck. The driver sped off, but witnesses reported seeing a dark-colored vehicle pulling away from the scene and traveling southbound on Koenig toward Port Ewen. Amir was upgraded from critical to serious condition Friday night, according to a spokesman at Westchester Medical Center.
Battle Ground police arrested a 53-year-old Vancouver man who allegedly caused a three-car collision Thursday on state Highway 503. Around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, 911 alerted the Battle Ground Police Department about a reckless driver in a green Toyota on the highway. Shortly after, the Toyota struck a car in the 1400 block of Northwest 10th Avenue, just south of Northwest Onsdorff Boulevard. When officers arrived they found three cars involved in the crash. People in the two cars that were struck by the Toyota were transported to a local hospital and treated for their injuries. Jon M.