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UPDATE/CORRECTION: 11/25/2016 5 p.m. According to an official press release from Hemet Police Lt. Eric Dickson, only one vehicle was involved in this traffic collision, not two vehicles as was earlier reported. The second vehicle initially believed to be involved in the accident was later determined to be a passing motorist who stopped to assist the victims after the accident. […]
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UPDATE: 11/25/2016 8:43 p.m. Coroner’s officials have identified the victim killed in last night’s vehicle versus pedestrian traffic accident as Jose Camarillo, 56, of Perris. Camarillo and his dog were struck by a 61-year-old motorist while the two were attempting to cross westbound 4th Street, 132 feet west of Park Avenue in Perris. The fatal accident happened at 4:57 p.m. […]
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HEMET – A Hemet resident was killed in an accident that was reported to Hemet police emergency dispatchers just before midnight, Wednesday, Nov. 23. The fatal accident happened on Simpson Road east of California Avenue in Hemet. The location where the accident occurred borders the unincorporated community of Winchester. Coroner’s officials later identified the victim killed in the accident as […]
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VALLEY VISTA – Excessive speed and wet roads have been listed as contributing factors in an early-morning, two-vehicle, rollover traffic collision that killed a Hemet resident Monday, November 21. The accident happened about 3:50 a.m., on Highway 74, near the Hwy 74 Discount Outlet, about 100 feet west of Calvert Avenue in Valley Vista. Valley Vista is an unincorporated community located just […]
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HEMET – A boy was struck by a truck when he ran into traffic on Florida Avenue near Buena Vista Street Monday, Nov. 14. The child, who has not been identified, was transported to a trauma center with head injuries. His current condition has not been updated. According to witnesses at the scene the juvenile and several other boys, whom […]
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RIVERSIDE – City of Riverside firefighters are crediting several good Samaritans with saving a man from a fiery death after the driver lost control of his car and smashed into a palm tree Monday, Nov. 7. After the car plowed into the tree it burst into flames. The fiery wreck happened at 1:03 p.m., in the area of Alessandro Boulevard and Mission […]
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UPDATE: 11/11/2016 8:37 p.m. Coroner’s officials have identified the victim killed in last Wednesday’s two-vehicle traffic collision as Humberto Avila Olvera, 55 of Cathedral City. The deadly collision happened on Soboba Road, 1.3 miles west of Chabela Drive in San Jacinto. According to a coroner’s release, the wreck occurred at 5:05 p.m. Olvera succumbed was pronounced dead at the scene […]
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UPDATE: 11/09/2016 3:30 p.m. HOMELAND – Coroner’s officials have released the name of the motorist killed in yesterday’s fatal, three-car, head-on traffic collision; as well as their preliminary findings into how the accident occurred. The victim killed in the collision has been identified as Jaime Bautista, 41, of Hemet. Coroner’s officials listed Bautista’s time of injury as 2 p.m. He succumbed to […]
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Reporting/Pictures: Dillon M – Hemet Valley News HEMET – On Monday Evening, 11-7-16, HPD, HFD, and AMR responded to a Multi-Vehicle, Hit and Run Traffic Collision on Florida x Gilmore. Reporter Dillon M was on scene within 3 minutes of the collision, due to having heard the collision happen from his location on Florida x Kirby. Upon arrival of our […]
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Both vehicles involved in the head-on collision sustained major damage. Jolie Chaton photo MORENO VALLEY – Two people were injured in a head-on traffic collision this morning on Gilman Springs Road, just east of Allesandro Boulevard in Moreno Valley. A second, unrelated crash was reported 45 minutes after the first crash. That accident involved two vehicles and happened east […]
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