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A woman was killed by a car spinning out of control in Interstate 80 in the Sierra on Thursday.
Traffic on I-80 was brought to a standstill after the accident killed the woman near Soda Springs.
It started when a Lexus spun out and someone stopped to help.
“A good Samaritan in an FJ Cruiser stopped to help these folks, get ’em towed out and hooked up to a tow strap,” said a CHP Captain.
The man and woman got out of their car as it was being towed out, and then a second Lexus spun out.
A woman was injured when she was involved in a collision with a taxi in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood Thursday morning.
The collision occurred shortly after 10 a.m. in a northbound lane on Sixth Street between Mission and Market streets.
The taxi driver, whose name was not immediately available, said the woman had walked into the side of his Yellow Cab as he was driving.
Witnesses at the scene said it appeared that the woman had walked toward the cab intentionally.
One person is dead after a crash involving an EDCO Disposal truck and a pickup in unincorporated Escondido.
The crash was reported at 6:12 a.m. at Ivy Dell Lane and Centre City Parkway, east of Interstate 15.
According to police, the driver of the trash truck, who had just started his shift, was headed northbound on Centre City Parkway when a 2002 Ford F-150 pulled out directly into his path. The driver of the trash truck told police he was unable to avoid a collision.
Police in Santa Cruz say a man committed suicide by crashing his car into a theater and then stabbing himself in the neck and torso with pieces of the glass debris.
Officers who responded to the scene around 10:45 p.m. Wednesday tried to stop the 34-year-old man from bleeding. He had apparently struck an artery.
But Deputy Chief Steve Clark says he resisted the officers’ attempts to provide first aid. He was eventually loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The theater was closed at the time.