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A Southern California city councilman who is paralyzed from the waist down survived a bizarre crash down a 30-foot embankment that left him unconscious for 11 hours with barely any access to emergency help.
Rialto Councilman Shawn O’Connell was driving to a friend’s home in the high desert to get some adjustments done on his wheelchair when he careened his specially tailored car off a 30-foot embankment off the 15 Freeway in Devore, police said.
One man is dead after he was struck by a car on Interstate 80 near Madison Avenue.
According to a CHP spokesperson, four vehicles and big rig were involved in the crash on Wednesday morning. Two of the cars colliding, sending one car into the center divide.
The driver of the car that hit the center divide — a man in his 30s — got out of the vehicle and tried to run to across the freeway, but was hit and killed. The driver of the car was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries.
Officers say the car that hit the center divide may have been speeding
A vehicle has driven into a Folsom Starbucks on Tuesday.
Nine people were injured when a black Lexus SUV drove into the coffee shop on East Bidwell Street. Two of them were taken to the hospital.
A 13-year-old boy was allegedly behind the wheel of a pick-up truck when it ran a stop sign in Echo Park and collided with a mail truck, ejecting the mail carrier and pinning her beneath her vehicle, authorities said.
The crash happened about 3:30 p.m. on Douglas Street near Bellevue Avenue.
The boy allegedly took the pick-up truck from his home, a spokesperson with the Los Angeles Police Department Central Traffic Division said.
Milton Everett Olin Jr. former C.O.O. of Napster, killed by sheriffs patrol car while riding a bike.
A former chief operating officer of the online file-sharing service Napster was killed when he was struck by a sheriff’s patrol car while riding a bicycle, authorities said Monday.
Lawyer and music industry veteran Milton Everett Olin Jr. of Woodland Hills died Sunday, according to the L.A. coroner’s office.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Olin and the patrol car were traveling in the same direction on Mulholland Highway in suburban Calabasas when the collision occurred.