A man in his 30s died early Friday morning in downtown Los Angeles after his car veered off Upper Grand Avenue and fell about 50 feet to the street below, and police still don't know what caused him to leave the road. The single-vehicle crash happened around 2:30 a.m. as the driver headed northbound on […] The post Driver killed after car plunges roughly 50 feet from Los Angeles overpass appeared first on American Almanac .
A man in his 30s died early Friday morning in downtown Los Angeles after his car veered off Upper Grand Avenue and fell about 50 feet to the street below, and police still don't know what caused him to leave the road. The single-vehicle crash happened around 2:30 a.m. as the driver headed northbound on Upper Grand Avenue, a stretch of roadway elevated high above Lower Grand Avenue in the heart of downtown LA. The car left the roadway, dropped an estimated 40 to 50 feet, and overturned on the street below, the New York Post reported . The driver, a Black male in his 30s, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, was the only person in the vehicle. No other cars were involved. Officials pronounced him dead at the scene. A witness…Open
A California driver walked away with only minor injuries after at least six metal pipes from a pickup truck crashed through the rear window of the sedan, a near-miss that the California Highway Patrol called a preventable consequence of improperly secured cargo. The collision happened Thursday, July 16, on a highway in Orange County, California. […] The post Unsecured metal pipes pierce sedan on Orange County highway as driver barely escapes appeared first on American Almanac .
A California driver walked away with only minor injuries after at least six metal pipes from a pickup truck crashed through the rear window of the sedan, a near-miss that the California Highway Patrol called a preventable consequence of improperly secured cargo. The collision happened Thursday, July 16, on a highway in Orange County, California. A white pickup truck loaded with metal pipes struck a gray sedan, and upon impact the unsecured load launched forward, puncturing the sedan's rear windshield and lodging deep inside the vehicle. Photos released by the CHP Santa Ana Area Office show the long pipes jutting through shattered glass, occupying the space where a rear-seat passenger would sit. The sedan's driver escaped with minor…Open
Jhenéy Wallace, a 20-year-old Victor Valley College basketball player who dreamed of reaching the WNBA, was killed when her vehicle plunged 80 feet down an embankment on California's I-15 freeway, leaving two other occupants in critical condition. Wallace was a passenger in a Hyundai Veloster traveling through the Cajon Pass on Wednesday, July 15, when […] The post College basketball player with WNBA dreams killed in I-15 Cajon Pass rollover crash at 20 appeared first on American Almanac .
Jhenéy Wallace, a 20-year-old Victor Valley College basketball player who dreamed of reaching the WNBA, was killed when her vehicle plunged 80 feet down an embankment on California's I-15 freeway, leaving two other occupants in critical condition. Wallace was a passenger in a Hyundai Veloster traveling through the Cajon Pass on Wednesday, July 15, when the car rolled off the freeway and tumbled down a steep embankment. San Bernardino County firefighters and paramedics reached the wreckage in triple-digit heat, airlifted one survivor, and hauled another up the slope on a rescue sled to a waiting ambulance. Wallace, a Victorville native, was pronounced dead at the scene . The two other occupants, Wallace's best friend and the friend's…Open
Video captured the moments after four people were killed and 29 more hospitalized following a crash involving at least 30 vehicles in Colorado on Tuesday. #Colorado #ColoradoCrash #Pileup NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. Find us online: https://www.newsnationnow.com/
One person died earlier this month in a foggy crash on the same highway.
AI:A massive 59-vehicle pileup occurred on a fog-shrouded section of California's Highway 99, resulting in ten injuries and following a fatal collision on the same stretch of road earlier this month.Open
