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Connor Tarr, 26, dies in four-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 near Los Banos, California

Date: 
Friday, December 19, 2014
Area: 
Fresno-Visalia, CA
Connor Tarr was driving on Interstate 5 when he was involved in a four-vehicle crash that cost him his life. Two tractor trailers and another car were also involved in the crash, though no one else was hurt according to current news reports.

Deana DeLeon, 49, killed and Juan Ledesma, 37, and one child injured in wrong-way car accident with suspected DUI driver Audrey Bliven, 49, on Interstate 5 in Woodburn, Oregon

Date: 
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Area: 
Portland, OR
A wrong-way driver suspected of driving impaired northbound in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 struck a car, killing a passenger and sending the driver and a child to the hospital early Tuesday morning. The driver of the wrong-way white 2003 VW Jetta was also taken to Salem Memorial Hospital. The child was in the back of the black BMW 320 and has critical injuries. Alcohol was being investigated as a factor in the 2:50 a.m. crash where Audrey Bliven, 49, of Salem was arrested after being treated at the hospital.

Denise Marilyn Krausch, 61, dies in pedestrian accident with multiple vehicles on Interstate 5 in Chula Vista, California

Date: 
Monday, November 24, 2014
Area: 
San Diego, CA
Denise Marilyn Krausch, 61, was struck by several vehicles and killed while walking on Interstate 5 in Chula Vista on Monday night. Krausch walking on the shoulder of the freeway around 10:40 p.m., when she was struck by four vehicles in the slow lane of northbound I-5 at the J Street exit. All of the drivers stopped after the accident. It is not known yet why Krausch was walking on the freeway.

Panos S. Palas, 86, caused accident when driving the wrong way on I-5 while intoxicated in Seattle, Washington

Date: 
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA

Panos S. Palas was driving northbound in the southbound lanes of I-5, causing two cars to crash and one passenger to suffer a broken leg. After a breath test it was determined that Palas had a blood alcohol content of .123, and troopers arrested him. Palas "admitted to drinking brandy for a cough and stated it helped with his medicine."The things that you need to know about an accident with a drunk driver

Alex Sotelo, Matthew Melo, Brandon Moreno, Jenny Campos, and Jennifer Bahena killed in horrific Irvine car accident on Interstate 5 outside of Knott's Berry Farm

Date: 
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Area: 
Orange County, CA
Five young people were killed in a dramatic one car crash on the Santa Ana 5 Freeway in Irvine early Saturday morning. The bodies were burned beyond recognition according to the Orange County Fire Authority. A sixth person, a teenage male, was sent to Mission Hospital in serious condition. According to the injured teen, the youths were leaving from a night trip to Knott's Berry Farm. The crash happened at approximately 2:15 AM. According to witnesses, the youths were in their mid-to-late teens. 

Jason William Karwhite, 42, killed in motorcycle accident on Interstate 5 near Fife, Washington

Date: 
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA

A Tukwila firefighter died after a motorcycle crash on I-5 near Fife on Saturday. Jason William Karwhite, of Auburn, was riding on I-5 when the accident occurred. What money damages are recoverable in a death claim?

Paul Joseph Alvarado, 60, killed in motorcycle accident on Interstate 5 near Cottage Grove, Oregon

Date: 
Friday, September 5, 2014
Area: 
Eugene, OR
A motorcyclist was killed in a Friday afternoon crash on Interstate 5 about 13 miles south of Cottage Grove, when his Harley Davidson motorcycle lost control and struck a guardrail.

Man killed and Hayley Meacham, 22, seriously injured in motorcycle accident on Interstate 5 and West Seattle Bridge in Seattle.

Date: 
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Area: 
Seattle-Tacoma, WA

The motorcycle was on the southbound on-ramp of Interstate 5 from the West Seattle Bridge just after 1 a.m. The ramp curves sharply and the motorcycle was going too fast to successfully complete the curve. The crash ejected the female passenger over the ramp on the left side, where luckily she landed in netting installed between the two. Her injuries were serious, but are not believed to be life-threatening.5 things every motorcycle accident victim needs to do immediately

Nicholas Anthony Dicarlo, 69, killed in crash into tree off of Interstate 5 in Oceanside on August 14.

Date: 
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Area: 
San Diego, CA
A man who died after a crash on Interstate 5 was identified Thursday as a 69-year-old Carlsbad resident Nicholas Anthony Dicarlo. Dicarlo was heading south about 2:40 p.m. near Harbor Drive in a Lexus IS 350 when one of the car’s tires blew out, the California Highway Patrol said. Dicarlo lost control of the car which veered toward the shoulder and off the highway where it slammed into a tree, the CHP said. Dicarlo, who had to be cut out of the wrecked car by firefighters, was taken to a hospital but he became unresponsive en route and was pronounced dead at the emergency room.

David Antonio Sanchez, 29, killed in single vehicle crash on Interstate 5 in Chula Vista on August 4.

Date: 
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Area: 
San Diego, CA

A 29-year-old San Diego man was found dead early Monday after apparently crashing into some trees on an embankment behind a business off Interstate 5 in Chula Vista.

David Antonio Sanchez's car appeared to have veered off the southbound freeway and rolled down an embankment before slamming into the trees and damaging a chain link fence on the back side of an industrial complex at 1095 Bay Blvd., north of Palomar Street, according to police and the county Medical Examiner's Office.