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Stephen Cureton, 17, struck and seriously injured by hit-and-run driver in Orange County, California
Parents of an Orange County teenager who was seriously hurt in a hit-and-run announced Wednesday they are offering a reward to help find the person behind the wheel. Stephen Cureton, 17, was walking with a friend near Yorktown Avenue and Beach Boulevard in Huntington Beach about 8:30 p.m. Monday when he was struck by a car and thrown 40 feet, his parents said. "To launch his body about 40 feet, have him hit the pavement at the impact that it did and then just leave him there ... I am just appalled that someone would consider my son disposable," said the teen's mother, Victoria Cureton.
A young man was killed Friday night when his vehicle crashed into a house in the private Orange County community of Coco de Caza.
The driver, identified later as Franz Nazelny, a 22-year-old resident of Coto de Caza, lost control on Cherry Hills Drive, near Vista Del Verde.
Authorities said his vehicle hit the curb, became airborne and crashed into a wall on the side of a house.
A mother and her two children, ages 3 and 6, were inside the house, but they were not injured.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation
An investigation is underway in Fullerton after a man trying to cross the 57 Freeway on foot was struck and killed.
California Highway Patrol officers say they got a call shortly after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday about a driver who crashed his truck.
That driver got out of the truck and attempted to cross the northbound lanes of the 57 on foot just south of Imperial Highway. That's when authorities say the man was hit by another vehicle and killed.
What felt like a "massive earthquake" was actually the impact of a car crashing through the wall of an Orange County home early Wednesday morning just a few feet from a startled family member. The driver, a man in his 20's, was arrrested for suspicion of DUI, according to Costa Mesa Police. "Our room was just filled with dust and debris, and I thought we were having a massive earthquake and the house was falling apart," the homeowner said. The homeowner said he didn't realize a car was involved until neighbors knocked on his door and he walked outside.
A bank robbery in Anaheim on Friday led to a pursuit that left one suspect dead and another hospitalized.
The robbery occurred about 1:45 p.m. at a Bank of the West branch at 4501 E. La Palma Ave., an Anaheim police said.
Anaheim police chased the suspects for about 10 minutes until they crashed a sedan at 3460 E. La Palma Ave., police said.
The suspected getaway driver was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
A 15-year-old girl from Murrieta was in a coma and on life support following a skateboarding accident Sunday. The community is now rallying to help raise funds to pay for her medical expenses. Madison Olson was skating down a steep street in San Clemente, when she lost control. She was not wearing a helmet and suffered a serious head injury. Her father, Jason Olson, has faith she will survive, but realizes there will be huge medical expenses.
A suspected DUI driver was arrested after crashing into an Orange County home and killing a resident who was in bed inside early Sunday, officials said. A man was killed when the vehicle struck the Mission Viejo home just before 4 a.m., according to the Orange County Fire Authority. The man was in bed when the vehicle struck the home. The victim was pronounced dead on arrival, officials said. Two people inside the vehicle suffered minor injuries, officials said. The driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, authorities said.
A pedestrian in Huntington Beach was killed after being hit by two different drivers. Authorities are searching for the second driver. Police say the incident happened around 4:30 a.m. Saturday at Pacific Coast Highway and Brookhurst Street. Authorities say the first driver hit the pedestrian and stopped. But a second vehicle hit the man. That driver left the scene and has not been identified. The name of the 28-year-old pedestrian will not be released until the family is notified.
Four people died and another was in critical condition following a crash in Orange County that left a vehicle severed into two parts early Saturday, officials said.
Authorities responded to the crash around 1:30 a.m. near the southbound 5 Freeway off-ramp at El Camino Real in San Clemente, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
Investigators said a white BMW was traveling at a high speed when it crashed into a light pole and tree, ejecting three males and one female. They were pronounced dead on arrival, officials said.
Speed and weather appeared to play a role in a crash that left five teenage girls injured -- two of them critically-- in Orange County late Saturday, officials said. Authorities responded just before 11 p.m. when a 2006 Mercury C230 hit a curb, went up an embankment and struck a tree on Melinda Road in Rancho Santa Margarita, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and Orange County Fire Authority. Preliminary investigation shows that slick weather and high speed may have contributed to the crash, officials said.