Tag: Big-Rig

UPDATE: LAKEVIEW: Truck driver at fault when SUV ripped to pieces after plowing into, and under, dairy hauler

UPDATED: Thursday, Aug. 16, 2:45 p.m. LAKEVIEW — California Highway Patrol has released additional information after a fatal accident that happened early this morning on the 34000 block of Gilman Springs Rd., in the unincorporated community of Lakeview. An Ontario man died in the collision that ripped the roof off an SUV that plowed into a dairy hauling tractor-trailer big-rig. […]

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CHINO: Four injured after chain-reaction collision

CHINO — A chain-reaction crash on the 60 Freeway in Chino Tuesday morning, July 10, caused a SigAlert to be issued for the area, while officials investigated the cause of the eight big-rig pile-up. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Heat suspected in death of Hemet man who died trying to walk home from hospital UPDATE: Speeding MV motorcyclist killed after losing […]

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ESSEX: Banning/Beaumont couple, killed after smashing into big-rig on I-40, ID’d

A couple who died earlier this week when their vehicle smashed into the back of a tractor-trailer big-rig that had stopped for another accident have been identified as being from the Inland Empire. The deadly crash happened early Sunday morning, June 17, on Interstate 40, east of Kelbaker Road. The location is near the unincorporated rural community of Essex and about […]

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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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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: 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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LAKEVIEW: Woman, 29, killed on Ramona Expressway after hitting dairy hauler ID’d

UPDATED: Sunday, Mar. 18, 9 p.m. LAKEVIEW — Official have identified a woman who died after crashing into the back of a dairy-hauling big-rig early Friday morning. The fatal accident happened on eastbound Ramona Expressway just west of Bridge Street in the unincorporated community of Lakeview. Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner’s officials identified Amanda Guzman, 29, of Nuevo, as the driver of the Toyota Prius that […]

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MENIFEE: Winchester man, struck by big-rig while walking on freeway, dies

MENIFEE — A man walking in the lanes of traffic on I-215 near the Keller Road overpass was struck by a big-rig pulling a trailer, early Saturday morning, Jan. 20. The man died several hours after being rushed to a local hospital. The area where the early morning accident happened is along the border of Murrieta to the east and Menifee to […]

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JURUPA VALLEY: Firefighters quickly extinguish big-rig fire

JURUPA VALLEY — Officials are investigating the cause of an early morning fire that destroyed a big-rig, Saturday, Jan. 13. The fire happened just north of the intersection of Etiwanda and Inland Avenues in Jurupa Valley. Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters and Riverside County sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a commercial vehicle fire about 2:17 a.m. When they arrived, officials reported finding a semi-truck that was fully engulfed in flames in […]

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REDDING: 58-year-old hit by big-rig while walking on I-5 identified

UPDATE: Sunday, Jan. 7, 10 p.m. REDDING — Officials have identified a pedestrian who was killed Wednesday, Dec. 27, when he was struck by a commercial big-rig while walking along Interstate 5. The deadly accident happened near the Cypress Avenue off ramp, in Redding. Shasta County Coroner’s officials later identified Kelley Dean Clark, 58,  of Redding as the man killed in the collision. California Highway […]

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