Car Accidents

Bad News Bears star Sammi Kane Kraft recently died in a car accident in Los Angeles. The California Highway Patrol says that the 20-year-old actress was in an Audi with a drunk driver who rear-ended a semi-truck last Tuesday around 1:30 a.m.

Chaos erupted in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood after a bold daytime iPad theft caused a traffic accident last Wednesday. Authorities say that a man plucked an iPad from a Peet’s Coffee shop patron’s hands and jumped into a waiting SUV with two accomplices.

Car accidents impact a wide variety of individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area every day. Two of the most recent prominent area car accidents involve San Francisco 49er Aldon Smith and an airport caterer. Aldon Smith was a passenger in a car which crashed into a tree in Santa Clara County last Friday. The accident

Authorities in Sacramento are receiving $1.5 million in federal money which will support law enforcement efforts to prevent texting while driving car accidents. Texting is a leading cause of distracted driving car accidents, which kill over 3,000 people annually. Despite being illegal in California, millions of drivers text every day and state studies have shown

Several recent San Francisco Bay Area traffic accidents have raised safety concerns surrounding the prevalence of bad driving behavior which kills hundreds of Californians every year.

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention indicates that individuals living in large cities such as San Francisco are less likely to be killed in a car accident than individuals living in rural areas.

Manufacturers baulked at proposed regulations which would require anti-rollover technology to be included in all heavy-duty trucks and buses in the coming years. Currently rollover traffic accidents kill about 700 people across the country every year. Officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hope that adding electronic stability control will help reduce the number

CBS San Francisco reports that two men are being investigated for drunk driving after a serious car accident on Highway 101. The crash happened early Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m. when a Santa Rosa began traveling northbound on the southbound lanes of Highway 101 by Pepper Road. The man smacked into a vehicle driven by

A group of San Francisco nurses recently rescued a woman and four small children after a Novato car accident. The nurses came upon the accident Wednesday afternoon near the South Novato Boulevard/Highway 101 interchange. The Marin Independent Journal reports that the nurses were returning from a trip to Sacramento when they came up to the

A 52-year-old Sacramento area man is dead after a serious multiple-vehicle crash in Modesto. California Highway Patrol officers report that the crash happened around 11 a.m. yesterday when a 25-year-old Turlock woman sideswiped a truck during a lane change on Highway 99.