#traffic-accidents

#traffic-accidents

LIVERMORE, Calif. (KGO) -- A fire captain was among those injured in a series of accidents along Vasco Road in Livermore on Friday. The high-traffic roadway has been fogged in all afternoon and all lanes in both directions were closed. As of 4 p.m., all lanes are back open. The Contra Costa County firefighter was hit by a car as he responded to traffic accidents. He is expected to recover.

Carly Calland recalls her son Jacob as always busy and active, but after a catastrophic e-scooter crash, he tragically lost his life just 18 minutes after leaving home.

The bus traveling from Lima to La Merced crashed, resulting in at least 15 fatalities and approximately 30 injuries, as reported by authorities.

It is awful and unacceptable that 10 people were murdered in the subway system in 2024. Convert that to the standard way of measuring mortality risk, deaths per 100,000 population, and the risk for someone who rode the subway 500 times in 2024 is 0.4 in 100,000. The risk of being murdered underground is ... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the U.S.

The collision occurred Saturday afternoon at Highway 50 and Coleraine Drive, involving four vehicles and resulting in multiple injuries, including one critical case.

Fire officials said fire crews were forced to let it burn itself out because the lithium battery from the SUV was sending hydrogen fluoride into the air.

Seamus Hanrahan, a 53-year-old truck driver, was sentenced to 10 months in jail and banned from driving for three years after driving through a stop-sign junction.

The death of two local individuals in separate vehicle collisions has left the communities of Kilkenny and Tipperary in sorrow and seeking answers.

A tragic Easter morning saw two fatalities in separate highway crashes, impacting traffic and raising concerns for holiday travelers.

Ivan Dimov, despite a conviction for reckless driving and multiple DUIs, had his driver's license reissued by the DMV in 2017, leading to a fatal crash.