Distracted by radio, cab driver causes fiery, head-on wreck with big-rig

MORENO VALLEY — Three people were injured, two seriously, when a taxi cab with a fare plowed head-on into an oncoming big-rig yesterday afternoon, June 19. The impact caused the tractor-trailer semi-truck to burst into flames and the fire eventually spread to the truck’s payload as well as area vegetation. The fiery wreck happened on Gilman Springs Road, east of […]

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WILDOMAR: Four injured, one arrested, after drug-related, head-on, hit and run crash

WILDOMAR — A Wildomar resident was injured and later arrested after a head-on, hit and run collision that injured three other people, one seriously, Friday afternoon, June 15. The crash happened on Baxter Road near Central Street in Wildomar. Albert Anthony Sanchez, 39, of Wildomar, was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs – causing major injuries to others, and […]

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FONTANA: Sleeping passenger killed when big-rig plows into guardrail, trees on I-10

FONTANA — A passenger sleeping inside the sleeper cab of a double-trailer semi-truck died this morning in Fontana after the vehicle left the roadway, smashed into a guard rail, and plowed head-on into a stand of large trees. The trailers, which were marked with poison placards, were loaded with liquid nicotine in 5-gallon buckets, some of which were leaking from […]

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HEMET: Small car packed with 6 people plummets 100 feet off roadway, driver reportedly DUI

HEMET — Details are beginning to emerge after a reportedly drunk driver speeding down Vista Del Valle from Simpson Park ran off the road and plummeted 100 feet down the side of the mountain, coming to rest upside down at the bottom of a ravine near a home. Reports from the scene indicate as many as six people were packed […]

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HEMET: Suspected DUI driver arrested after solo-vehicle Domenigoni Pkwy. rollover

HEMET — A man suspected of driving under the influence was arrested after a single-vehicle rollover accident, late Wednesday evening, June 13. The wreck happened on Domenigoni Parkway, between Sanderson Avenue and Warren Road. A Hemet police officer reported the accident about 10:20 p.m., after witnessing the wreck while driving on Domenigoni Parkway. The officer advised the vehicle had left […]

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NUEVO: Third fatal accident on Ramona Expressway in 7 days rocks SJ Valley

UPDATE: Wednesday, June 13, 6:30 p.m. With corrected and updated information NUEVO — Details are beginning to emerge after yet another fatal accident took the life of a third victim in just seven days on Ramona Expressway in the Lakeview/Nuevo area. Last night’s deadly accident happened west of Lakeview Avenue and all three fatal incidents happened within two miles of […]

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HEMET: Three hospitalized after four-vehicle collision involving tandem-trailer big-rig

HEMET — Three people were injured – two seriously – in a four-vehicle, chain reaction, traffic collision involving a tandem-trailer big-rig, Monday afternoon, June 11. The major injury multiple-vehicle accident happened in an unincorporated area south of Hemet, on Domenigoni Parkway, just west of Warren Road. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Drunk and speeding in stolen truck, Nuevo man plows head-on […]

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Drunk and speeding in stolen truck, Nuevo man plows head-on into family, kills MV father, 23

UPDATED: Monday, June, 11, 2018, 11 p.m. (See original story and 50 photographs below.) Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner’s officials have identified a Moreno Valley man killed when an allegedly intoxicated driver in a stolen pickup truck smashed head-on into an SUV in Nuevo early this morning. Officials identified 23-year-old, Terrel Moore, as the victim who succumbed to his injuries and died […]

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RIVERSIDE: Hit and run driver who killed two, injured third, released within hours of arrest

RIVERSIDE — Two men died and a woman was injured when an SUV ran a red light and plowed broadside into a sedan early Saturday morning, June 9. After the collision, the Fontana resident who reportedly caused the crash fled from the area on foot but was later located and arrested at a Colton hospital while trying to receive treatment […]

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CORONA: Man driving Corvette was recklessly speeding, passing illegally, just before wreck: CHP

CORONA — A reckless driver in a Corvette who officials say was speeding, dangerously cutting off other motorists, and illegally crossing the double yellow lines lost control of his vehicle and wrecked into a ditch, Wednesday morning, June 6. The accident happened on Cajalco Road near La Sierra Avenue in an unincorporated part of Corona near Lake Matthews. The injured […]

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