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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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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:2 p.m. With additional photographs and video from the scene UPDATE:1 p.m. With additional photographs from the scene SOBOBA – At least two people were injured after a small plane crashed into a ravine off of Indian Truck Trail, southeast of Soboba Road Thursday morning, Nov. 10. The plane came to rest upside down at the end of a residence […]
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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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BIG BEAR – Few details have been released after a Hemet resident’s body was discovered in the San Bernardino National Forest early Sunday morning. CHP officials who conducted an accident investigation believe the victim crashed into a tree while riding his dirt bike, according to a release from the San Bernardino County Coroner’s office. The release indicated Joseph Zinck, 44, was […]
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CABAZON – A Florida resident was killed in an early-morning, single-vehicle accident when he lost control of his motorcycle on Interstate 10 Nov. 6. The fatal accident happened near Railroad Avenue, about two miles east of Main Street in Cabazon, according to a California Highway Patrol official. The location of the accident was east of the Desert Hills Premium Outlets, Morongo […]
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HEMET – A woman was injured when she smashed through a power pole while driving on State Highway 74 near Cordoba Drive in Hemet Sunday, Nov. 6. She was transported to a local hospital after the accident with minor injuries. Hemet police and fire personnel and AMR medics responded to the collision after passing motorists reported the accident to City of […]
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