Posts tagged "fatal accident"

The individuals involved in a deadly plane crash in San Diego County have been identified. Gregory Crane, his wife Lori, and the couple's three children were all aboard the Velocity XLR-G5 when it experienced trouble and crashed into a nearby golf course.

Lori died at the scene of the crash. Two of the children were airlifted to a nearby hospital, while Gregory and the third child were taken via ambulance. Presently, Gregory remains in a coma and all three children, aged eight to 11, are all in critical condition.

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators are busy investigating the crash site this week to see if they can uncover any answers as to what happened. Eyewitnesses report that, shortly after takeoff from Montgomery Field, the plane lost one of its doors. Shortly after that, and a final radio message to air traffic control, the plane went down, landing on its wing and flipping several times before  coming to a stop.

One woman was killed, while a man and three children were seriously injured in a San Diego plane crash yesterday afternoon. The small, home-built aircraft crashed right next to the 11th hole of the Admiral Baker Golf Course, as those on the ground looked on in horror.

Before emergency responders arrived at the crash site, a maintenance worker employed by the golf course and several golfers were able to cut two passengers out of the backseat. The front of the plane was so smashed that they could not reach the remaining three occupants.

Of those that did not perish in the plane crash, it was reported that all face critical, potentially fatal, injuries. Names of the victims have not yet been released.

A bus crash earlier this past week killed six people and injured nine other in California's Central Valley. The Greyhound bus was traveling from Los Angeles to Sacramento, carrying 31 passengers on a red eye trek in Thursday's early hours.

The fatal accident occurred around 2:00 a.m. when the bus driver struck an SUV that had overturned in the road ahead, blocking traffic. The bus slid into the concrete center divider and hit another vehicle before launching off the right side of the road, falling 15 feet before smashing into a tree located near an off-ramp, the front end smashed to smithereens.

Do drunk drivers deserve a break? Benjamin Serratos, a multiple-DUI offender, is currently in jail and awaiting trial for causing the car accident that killed one 18-year-old and severely injured two others.

The fatal accident on June 12 was also Serratos' third DUI behind the wheel, having previously been charged twice for drunk driving and once for drunk boating. Serratos was also convicted of pulling a BB gun on a strip club employee in 2006, and for almost cutting a man's ear off in a bar fight in 1999.

Even with his violent background, his multiple DUIs and now the death of 18-year-old Destanee Little - even with all of these things at Benjamin Serratos' feet, his attorney and family members are arguing for bail to be lowered to an amount that would see him released.

The death of Anthony DeWeese in a fatal boat accident last December during San Diego's annual Parade of Lights was followed by months of investigation into the cloudy details surrounding the tragedy. Anthony DeWeese, whose parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, died of blunt force trauma after the recreational boat he was a passenger on was broadsided by a larger Coast Guard boat.

DeWeese was one of 13 people aboard the boat when it was struck. Minor to severe injuries were suffered by five others. Though crew members aboard the Coast Guard vessel denied negligence and traveling at unsafe speeds, eyewitness accounts and general boater opinion contradicted their claims.

On July 1, four members of the Coast Guard crew involved in the fatal accident were charged with a number of offenses, including negligent homicide and involuntary manslaughter. Preliminary hearings are set to take place in a matter of weeks.

Kristen Ann Bedard was walking to work on the morning of November 23 when a car roared onto the sidewalk, striking and killing her. On his way to a doctor's appointment that morning, her brother drove past the emergency responders. Only later did he learn that it was his sister who had been hit.

On Monday, Becky Marie Anderson was sentenced to 16 years in prison for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence and causing an injury, and illegally being under the influence of a controlled substance.

A lesser penalty than the prosecution had originally sought; the 16-year prison sentence was a term of Anderson's plea agreement. For the family of the victim, it was not nearly enough. Bedard was only 36-years-old when she died, leaving behind a teenage son and daughter.

Marlene Resendiz was 17-years-old, engaged to be married and, according to her mother, dreamed of becoming a doctor. In late 2007, Marlene was struck and killed in a fatal car accident as she sprinted across East Grand Avenue in Econdido.

The car Tiffany St. Ives was driving carried Marlene 300 feet, the length of a football field, before St. Ives stopped to let her slide off the hood. Once Marlene's broken body had disappeared from the windshield, St. Ives sped off, leaving the teenager to die in the road.

From that day, until the day she was arrested, St. Ives did everything she could to destroy evidence of the hit-and-run. She had the car repainted, fixed and attempted to find someone who would get rid of it for her in Mexico. The man she approached for this eventually turned her in.

St. Ives was semi-famous in the San Diego area for her animal rescue farm, Purple Cow & Friends. Many who attended the trial could not understand how someone who cared so much for animals could show such disregard for human life.

Traffic was heavy in San Diego County over the weekend, with thousands traveling to and from the city to spend Memorial Day weekend with family and friends. City officials and police officers, anticipating the increased volume of people and vehicles, put out bulletins and released tips for enjoying the weekend safely.

Still, even the best laid plans cannot prevent all accidents, as was proved by the fatal accident involving a bicyclist in Oceanside on Friday night.

Just before midnight on Friday, 21-year-old Angel Escobedo attempted to cross several lanes of traffic on North River Road. Authorities believe that Escobedo turned into oncoming traffic, advertently or inadvertently, and was struck by an oncoming vehicle. After the car accident, Escobedo was rushed to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, where he failed to recover and was declared brain dead early on Saturday morning.

What was once primarily considered a jaw-dropping, inspiring show that demonstrates a seemingly magic connection between human and animal, the Shamu show now inspires more worry than fascination.

The recent February death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau has many concerned with the safety of whale trainers around the country's SeaWorlds and other marine parks. Concern is so great that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is conducting a new investigation into the safety of the parks' practices regarding trainers working with the orca whales.