News From Around The County
ANZA — Details are still emerging after a person was killed when their vehicle plummeted about 350 feet over the side of a rural mountain road, Saturday, Nov. 25. Although a four sentence incident report issued by Cal Fire listed conflicting streets that do not meet, the fatal solo-vehicle wreck was believed to have happened in the area of Forest Route off […]
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HEMET — An intoxicated and belligerent man who could barely stand without help was arrested after crashing into a van, fleeing and then crashing again. The incidents and arrest happened Thanksgiving evening, Nov. 23. The initial hit and run collision happened on N. Tahquitz Avenue, where the man struck a mini-van before fleeing in a Dodge dually pickup truck. Witnesses who had followed the […]
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HEMET — Two people died in a suspected DUI-related collision when a speeding sedan that was reportedly traveling over 100 mph in a residential neighborhood failed to slow or stop for a posted stop sign at an intersection and plowed into a pickup truck Thursday morning, Nov. 23. The deadly, early morning wreck happened at the intersection of S. Buena Vista […]
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MOUNTAIN GATE — Officials are investigating a possible DUI-related, hit and run traffic accident that happened Tuesday evening, Nov. 21. The single-vehicle, rollover accident happened on the 17000 block of Wonderland Boulevard, between Bass Drive and Tunnel Road, in the unincorporated community of Mountain Gate just north of the City of Shasta Lake. California Highway Patrol officers, Cal Fire/Shasta County Fire personnel and other emergency […]
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HEMET — A woman was seriously injured when she was struck by a car that fled the scene, Saturday evening, Nov. 18. The vehicle versus pedestrian collision happened in front of the Circle K on the 700 block of W. Florida Avenue in Hemet. Officials say they have several leads they are following up on; however, they have not yet made any […]
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RIVERSIDE — Four people were hospitalized after a major-injury, two-vehicle traffic collision, Monday morning, Nov. 20. The early morning accident happened on Hole Avenue, between Mobley and California Avenues, in Riverside. City of Riverside Fire and Police personnel along with American Medical Response medics responded to the accident about 12:15 a.m., after multiple people called 911 to report the crash; which involved a silver, 2008 […]
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MEAD VALLEY — A woman suspected of driving under the influence was arrested and a child was critically injured after the woman plowed head-on into a utility pole, Sunday morning Nov. 19. The early morning accident happened on Cajalco Road, just west of Clark Street, in the unincorporated community of Mead Valley. After an investigation, California Highway Patrol officers arrested 29-year-old, Andreana Teni Jackson-Hawkins. […]
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ANZA — Homicide detectives are investigating after two people were left in critical condition and had to be life-flighted following a collision between a pickup truck and an off-road vehicle. According to sheriff’s officials, the Friday, Nov. 17 incident was related to the theft of marijuana plants. Although officials have not specified where the marijuana plants were stolen from, citing the ongoing investigation, the […]
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HEMET — A hit and run suspect led officers on a bizarre, twenty-minute long pursuit that ended about one mile from where the incident began, Sunday morning, Nov. 19. During the early morning pursuit, the man who led officers on the slow-speed chase made about one dozen U-Turns on Florida Avenue, never driving much further than about one mile from […]
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MENIFEE — Three teenage girls were hospitalized after a rollover accident involving an off-road vehicle that overturned in a dirt field Saturday afternoon, Nov. 18. The accident happened southeast of Newport and Briggs Roads in Menifee. Emergency first responders were dispatched to the scene of the accident about 4:17 p.m., after a frantic family member called 911 to report the accident. […]
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