News From Around The County
RIVERSIDE – DUI is suspected as the primary contributing factor in an accident where a vehicle smashed into a traffic pole Monday, Dec. 12. The single-car accident happened at 10692 Indiana Avenue in Riverside. A six-year-old resident of Riverside, who has not been identified, was improperly restrained and was critically injured in the accident. The driver of the vehicle, who was […]
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BEAUMONT – Many questions remain unanswered after an early-morning accident involving a woman who was run over while laying between the number one and two lanes of traffic on the northbound side of SR-79 – also known as Lamb Canyon Road – Monday, Dec. 12. The fatal incident happened about 3:28 a.m., one mile south of California Road, between the cities of Beaumont […]
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HEMET – One person sustained moderate injuries in a two-vehicle, rollover traffic collision Monday, Dec. 12. The accident happened at the intersection of W. Latham Avenue and N. Gilbert Street in Hemet. The area where the accident occurred was just east of the World Baptist Church and north of Florida Avenue. Hemet Fire and Police officials were dispatched to the collision after […]
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MEAD VALLEY – Few details have been released after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a car Saturday, Dec. 10. The deadly accident happened at the intersection of Clark and Nance Streets in the unincorporated community of Mead Valley, according to a fire official. The area where the accident occurred is west of I-215 and southwest of March Air Reserve […]
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A 19-year-old Moreno Valley woman was killed when a hit and run driver smashed into her car this morning in Riverside. Everardo Rodriguez photo UPDATE #3: 12/09/2016 9:38 p.m. An updated jail record search revealed Erasco Gomez, the alleged suspect in this morning’s fatal hit and run traffic collision that killed 19-year-old Linda Rodriguez, was booked into jail on suspicion […]
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SAN JACINTO – Traffic was left backed up for several miles after a tractor-trailer big-rig towing hay bales rolled over onto its side Wednesday, Dec. 7. The rollover accident happened as the semi-truck was turning from eastbound Ramona Expressway onto northbound Sanderson Avenue. CHP officers, Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies and other emergency first responders were dispatched to the scene of the […]
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UPDATE: 12/05/2016 5:38 p.m. SAGE – California Highway Patrol officials concluded their initial investigation into this morning’s fatal traffic collision and provided additional details about the deadly accident. Investigating officers determined that drug and/or alcohol intoxication were contributing factor(s) in this collision, according to CHP Public Information Officer Darren Meyer. During their investigation officers determined Tracie Bell, 53, of Riverside […]
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PALM DESERT – Deputies arrested a Calexico woman after she smashed into a person driving a golf cart and fled the scene Monday, Nov. 28. The hit and run collision happened on Country Club Drive just west of Portola Avenue in Palm Desert. After the collision the driver of the SUV involved in the hit and run, later identified as Guadalupe […]
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RIVERSIDE – Two men were killed and two others were injured when a vehicle they were in smashed into a telephone pole Thursday, Dec. 1. The fatal accident happened in the 10650 block of Arlington Avenue west of Norwood Avenue in the City of Riverside. Coroner’s officials later identified the two men killed in the accident as Miguel Cisneros and Mario […]
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Deputies and other sheriff’s officials discuss the multiple hit and run collisions. William Hayes photo William Hayes contributed to this report MORENO VALLEY – Citizens were forced to detain an alleged hit and run suspect after he smashed into four other cars in two separate collisions Wednesday, Nov. 30. The first collision happened shortly before 6 p.m., at the intersection of […]
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