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  Staff Writer | July 07, 2007 11:07 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

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• Man Killed when Car Lands in Slough

  Chrissie Cole | June 12, 2007 6:53 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  A 24-year-old man was found dead in his vehicle on Monday morning, after a passerby reported seeing a vehicle in the water off the side of the roadway on State Route 4, west of Tracy Boulevard.The man, whose identity was not released due to pending family notification, was found in his 1998 Chrysler Sebring, which was overturned in Trapper Slough, California Highway Patrol reports. The man did...

• LAPD Patrol Car Hits Stalled Vehicle; Kills Motorist

  Christina Cole | May 11, 2007 3:02 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  A man was killed, Friday, when his vehicle, stopped at a car accident scene, was rear-ended by an LAPD Patrol Car on the Ronald Reagan Freeway.It is currently unclear if the vehicle had been involved in an accident prior to being struck by a cruiser from the Los Angeles Police Department's Mission Station, said a sergeant from LAPD's Traffic Division.A male was killed in the crash, west of Tampa...

• Rollover Kills Marine; Eight Injured

  Christina Cole | February 11, 2007 7:09 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  Eleven Marines are hospitalized and expected to be okay after being involved in a fatal rollover crash of a military truck at Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar.One marine was killed and eight were treated and then released from the hospital when the seven-ton truck, part of a six vehicle convoy, practicing scheduled training, rolled over an embankment on the base Saturday.The Major said the...

• Dump Truck Trapped in Crossing

  Christina Cole | December 22, 2006 6:25 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  Officials with the state Dept. of Transportation and the California Highway Patrol are pleading with drivers to abide by vehicle length restrictions on Highway 140 after a dump truck gets stuck on a bridge.A driver for Burson-based C&D Trucking was hauling loads of pea gravel to Yosemite National Park at around 10:30 a.m. on Thursday. On the second detour bridge, one of the wheels caught the...

• Jury Awards $3 Million for Nursing Home Negligence

  Randy Walton | November 05, 2007 11:58 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  The owner of two nursing homes was ordered by a jury to pay more than $3 million to the estate of a former resident who developed bedsores on his body while a patient at the two nursing facilities. The resident died in 2004.According to reports, the nursing home the verdict stems from a lawsuit alleging that the nursing staff at Barry Manor and White Oak Manor nursing homes were negligent, and...

• Elders More Vulnerable To "Poisonous" Drug Cocktails

  Scott Barber | September 18, 2007 7:07 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  A recent New York Times article reports that elderly patients are much more vulnerable to "poisonous" drug cocktails. Elderly persons, those over the age of 65, are more likely to be taking multiple medications for multiple conditions which have been prescribed by multiple physicians. This can result in elders receiving medications which should not be prescribed together. This can even occur...

• Father, Son Attack Motorist After Car Accident

  Christina Cole | April 12, 2007 5:57 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  A man and his son allegedly attacked another driver after their vehicles were involved in a car accident on East County Road in Valley Center.At approximately 6:40pm, Thursday, authorities received a report about an assault with a deadly weapon. When deputies arrived, they found gun shell casings in the car wreckage from the crash, said San Diego County Sheriff's Department.The father, 49, was...

• Man Killed in Highway Accident

  Christina Cole | March 21, 2007 7:54 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  A man was killed in a truck accident when his pickup crashed through a guardrail on the San Diego Freeway in Long Beach. His truck went over the side and slammed into a tree, said authorities.The crash happened at Santa Fe Avenue at approximately 10:30 Monday evening, said a California Highway Patrol Officer.The vehicle hit a guard rail and flew off the side of the freeway into ice plants before...

• Marine Killed in Car Accident

  Christina Cole | February 28, 2007 5:56 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  A 20-year-old Marine was killed early morning in a one-car crash on north Interstate 5, south of Genesee Avenue.The man, whose name has not yet been released, was a passenger in the car when the collision occurred just after 3:00am, according to the county Medical Examiner.The car, driven by another Marine, swayed off the road and crashed into a tree, authorities say. The driver was transported...