AUGUST 28, 2009 – A 52-year-old man was killed when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a logging truck on Highway 101 near Leggett, authorities said. Glenn Brunskill of Danville was riding a 1984 Honda Gold Wing north on Hwy 101 when he lost control about 1:30 p.m. and slid into oncoming lanes near [...]

AUGUST 27, 2009 – A driver was hospitalized with major injuries after his pickup truck collided head-on with a cement truck in Marysville, authorities said. The accident occurred about 5:10 p.m. when a Toyota Tacoma PreRunner traveling northbound on Plumas-Arboga Road crossed the center line in the 2800 block and collided with a southbound cement [...]

AUGUST 26, 2009 – A 36-year-old man suffered major injuries when his two-axle truck crashed head-on into a tree above Nevada City, authorities said. Jeffrey Daniel Kenney of Chico had to be freed from the wreckage following the crash, which occurred about 9:20 a.m. on Highway 20 at Conservation Road, according to the California Highway [...]

AUGUST 17, 2009 – A 42-year-old man died when his pickup truck collided with a tractor-trailer’s cargo as they traveled on Highway 99 in Earlimart, authorities said. Christopher Chau of Visalia was driving south on Hwy 99 at about 70 mph when he crashed into a stack of power poles protruding from the back of the big [...]

AUGUST 16, 2009 – A woman was killed when her van struck a parked commercial truck in Shasta County, authorities said. The unidentified driver was traveling north on one-way Pine Street about 7:50 a.m. when she collided with a parked AT&T line truck just north of Placer Street, according to Redding police. The victim was [...]

AUGUST 16, 2009 – A tractor trailer crashed off Interstate 5 between Shasta Lake and Lakehead, killing the driver, authorities said. The big rig accident occurred about 10:35 p.m. on I-5 just south of Gilman Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. The semi truck was traveling north with a load of beef when, for [...]

AUGUST 14, 2009 – An elderly woman died when she stepped in front of a big rig while crossing a four-lane highway in Napa County, authorities said. The pedestrian fatality occurred about 8:30 a.m. on Highway 29 at Salvador Avenue, according to Napa police. The woman, identified as 93-year-old Ethel Strong Adams, was walking east [...]

AUGUST 10, 2009 – A woman who survived a car crash last week that killed four men near Five Points has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the driver of the big rig who caused the accident and his employer, Panella Trucking, according to court records. The husband of survivor Conception Lopez was among the dead. [...]

AUGUST 10, 2009 – A tractor-trailer overturned on Hwy 99 near Atwater, injuring the driver, authorities said. Angel Rivera, 39, of New Haven, Conn. was driving north on Highway 99 when his vehicle drifted onto the shoulder about 3:50 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. Rivera overcorrected near Grove Avenue and then lost control [...]

AUGUST 7, 2009 – A 26-year-old Soledad woman and her 5-year-old son were severely injured when their vehicle collided head-on with a fuel truck in Gonzales, authorities said. Araceli Avila was driving a 2006 Mitsubishi Galant north on Hwy 101 when the accident occurred about 8:45 a.m. at Gloria Road, according to the California Highway [...]