Traffic Accidents

Hit-and-Run Blowback on LAPD

Doctors try to save bicyclist's remaining leg as legislator calls for crackdown

Peter Murphy's People Say Bauhaus Legend Had Barely Trace Of Alcohol During DUI

Peter Murphy, the legendary Bauhaus vocalist arrested over the weekend on suspicion of DUI, hit-and-run and meth possession, had barely a trace of alcohol in his system, his handlers say. Which begs the question: What then, was he allegedly on? Because a witness was so terrified over the Brit's dri ... More >>

Hit and Runs? Readers Are Still Talking About L.A.'s Epidemic

Victim Finds Hit-and-Run Driver

Famed bicyclist Don Ward tracked lobbyist Glenn Gritzner to a body shop

L.A.'s Hit and Run Epidemic and Andrea Alarcon Have Readers Hopping Mad

Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu

Artists who like accidents

Bizarre Hermosa Cop vs. Motorist Case Crumbles

Bring Your Mom and Get in Free!

Cellphone-Related Deaths Behind Wheel in California Down, Dubious Study Claims

While California's cop lobbyists and legislators have claimed texting-while-driving is creating more death than the Grim Reaper in order to justify increasingly needless laws, a new study says cellphone-related traffic deaths are going down. So which one is it? This is the classic strategy of over ... More >>

Texting Til Death: Half of Young Americans do it While Driving

amber10​We here at LA Weekly are a little sick of needless, nebulous state laws that give cops way too much power to conduct fund raising write tickets. Case-in-point: California's retarded texting-while-driving law which, apparently, has done nothing to deter texting-while-driving, but has ... More >>

Derrick Ernest, Vegas Teen, Killed on 60 Freeway After Jumping in Front of Semi

Formspring18-year-old Derrick Ernest​An 18-year-old male who was run over by a semi on Tuesday has been identified as Derrick Ernest. The victim lists his hometown as the San Gabriel Valley on MySpace, but the coroner says he was living in Las Vegas. The California Highway Patrol told City Ne ... More >>

Jubal Guevara-Trinidad, L.A. Homicide No. 36: Man Killed After Being Struck Repeatedly by Car in South-Central

Google MapsThe street near where Jubal Guevara-Trinidad was killed​By Ryan Deto In the early hours of February 13, 55-year-old Latino Jubal Guevara-Trinidad died after being hit by a car in the 100 block of East 43rd Street. The coroner's records showed that Guevara-Trinidad was struck multi ... More >>

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Doug Odgers, 23-Year-Old SoCal Paramedic, Killed in Early-Morning Ambulance Crash

FacebookDoug Odgers' profile picture​A 23-year-old Rancho Cucamonga resident and UCLA graduate was killed early Sunday morning when the ambulance in which he was riding crashed head-on into the base pole of a freeway sign over the 10 West, just east of Fourth Street in Ontario. California Hig ... More >>

More SoCal Drivers Talk, Text on the Road Than Rest of U.S. -- But Central Californians Are the Worst

Paris: Public enemy No. 1​Confirmed: We gossipy, chronically plugged-in Southern Californians are pretty terrible about driving under the influence of smart phones. New numbers from March [big ugly HTML doc] show that 9.8 percent of SoCal drivers are tinkering with their handheld devices behi ... More >>

John Hines, Long Beach Fire Captain, Arrested for Drunk Hit-and-Run After Plowing Into Seal Beach Bicyclist

KTLAFire captain and alleged hit-and-runner John Hines​A Long Beach fire captain found himself on the other side of the bars this month after an alleged DUI hit-and-run in the wee hours of April Fool's Day. KTLA reports that Seal Beach witnesses saw John Hines zooming down Westminster Avenue ... More >>

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Bernabe Basurto, 19-Year-Old CSU Long Beach Student, Killed by SUV While Standing on 110 Freeway

TwitterBernabe Basurto​A young man who had gotten into a minor accident and stepped out onto the 110 North in the wee hours this morning -- only to be fatally hit by a 2008 Mazda Tribute trying to avoid the crash's buildup -- has been identified as 19-year-old Bernabe Basurto. A preliminary C ... More >>

Man Crashes Car into NoHo Restaurant, Supposedly High on Aerosol-Delivered Substance

Flickr user Thomas HawkTom's Burgers​Multiple news outlets are reporting that late yesterday morning, around 11:30, a man crashed his car into North Hollywood restaurant Tom's Burgers. The driver -- who was suspected to be under the influence of an aerosol substance -- drove his car through a ... More >>

New Years Eve Warning in Los Angeles: LAPD Undercover Cops Will Cozy Up at Busy Bars To Catch Drunk Drivers

Edison's bar scene, downtown Los Angeles​Undercover Los Angeles Police officers will be hanging out at hot Los Angeles bars tonight, pretending to be customers to bust bartenders serving alcohol to people who shouldn't be driving, and partiers staggering toward parking lots, on New Years Eve. ... More >>

West Hollywood Twentysomething Dead After Hit-And-Run On Sunset Boulevard

ZuneSphereLast night's hit-and-run victim was crossing the street near the Roxy Theatre​Updated after the jump: The victim -- and the probable hit-and-run vehicle -- have been identified. Originally posted at 9:13 a.m. The leading young lady at the head of a pack of about 30 partygoers was fa ... More >>

Two LAPD Cruisers Crash In Koreatown

​ Updated throughout at 4:51 p.m. A Los Angeles police office sustained serious injuries after the cruiser she was in was involved in a collision in Koreatown Friday afternoon, a city fire official said. Another patrol car appeared to have collided with an additional vehicle simultaneously, a ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 293, Hit and Run Driver Faces Murder Charges

The unknown driver who struck and killed a bicyclist in the valley is looking at murder charges, say police. View Larger Map Bicyclist Robert Painter, a Canadian citizen who lived in North Hollywood, was the victim of a hit and run on December 2 , at around 5:10 p.m., by a man driving a dark green ... More >>

A Tale of Two Deaths: University Park v. Highland Park

This morning Claudia Cabrera is due to appear at the Criminal Courts Building to set the date for a preliminary hearing regarding the hit and run accident that killed USC student Adrianna Bachan and seriously injured fellow student Marcus Garfinkle. Today's L.A. Times reports on the inevitable discr ... More >>

Death in the Afternoon: USC Journalism Students Investigate a Tragedy

Celeste Fremon's Witness L.A. blog has given well-deserved coverage to the efforts of USC journos investigating a Highland Park double murder. The shooting deaths of two high school students, Alejandro Garcia and Carlos Hernandez, occurred in broad daylight last month on heavily trafficked Figueroa ... More >>

Death of an Angel: Pitcher Nick Adenhart Killed in Car Crash

The tragic news from Fullerton about a three-fatality automobile accident became even more shocking after the disclosure that one of the victims was L.A. Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart, who had pitched in an opening-week game hours before the crash. Police say a minivan ran a red light at the intersec ... More >>

LAPD: USC Hit & Run Arrest Details

Speaking near a sidewalk memorial, LAPD First Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell has just disclosed the identities of the driver and passengers of the car that struck two USC students early Sunday morning. Los Angeles resident Claudia Cabrera, 30, was arrested today and remains in Van Nuys Women's Jail ... More >>

Today in Photographs: March 10, 1946

Librarian's Point of View. This traffic accident occurred in front of Highland Park's Arroyo Seco branch of the public library. (Figueroa and Piedmont.) It involved a trolley car, a motorcycle and two cars. LAPL CollectionClick image to enlarge

City Council Delays Billboard Ban Endorsement

L.A.'s City Council put off a widely-anticipated decision on whether to support a proposed statewide moratorium on digital billboards. Instead, the council will hold public discussions next Friday on whether to back Assembly Bill 109.If passed by the California legislature, Assemblyman Mike Feuer's ... More >>

Rod Poole, 1962–2007

Los Angeles musician murdered in Hollywood

Death Race 2000

Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning

Minot Family Values

Minot Family Values