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A car slammed into a tree near the intersection of Elm and Rose Avenues just after 4:30 on Saturday morning. The driver and two passengers inside the car all died from their injuries.

The men were in vehicles that crashed into a disabled Ford pickup truck that had hit the median and was blocking the far left lane on northbound Highway 101 just south of Fair Oaks Avenue.

The crash happened around 9:50 p.m. in the area of Avenue 17 and Crescent Drive.

According to El Segundo Fire Chief Deena Lee, the semi-truck was parked on the side of the road near Imperial Highway and Douglas Street as the driver was off-loading a scissor lift when it was hit by an LADOT bus.

A vehicle hit the woman at 6 a.m. Monday, Oct. 2, in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles, police said in a news release.

Selma police say a man, identified by family as 19-year-old Cameron Thomas Bethel, was walking across the roadway when he was hit by a car.

A 33-year-old motorcyclist died Thursday night from injuries suffered after he collided in East Oakland with two vehicles, including one that fled the scene, police said.

Most are not from this weekend's collision, and neighbors say crashes are all too common at the intersection.

Three California Highway Patrol officers were injured Thursday morning when an SUV crashed into a cruiser on the 105 Freeway in Downey, leaving both vehicles engulfed in flames.

Police said the suspect drove off westbound on Olympic Boulevard after striking the victim. While paramedics tried to help the pedestrian, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The hit-and-run happened just after midnight near Bridgehead Road and Main Street where a man was seen lying on the road next to a bicycle.

Jeff Nazaroff was about a football field away from his work site when the crash killed him.

One officer sustained major injuries and was airlifted to a trauma center in stable condition, the statement said.

The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. at 3rd and Mission streets in the South of Market district.

According to the California Highway Patrol, at around 10:24 a.m., California Highway Patrol got a call about a traffic collision at the Stuhr Road and Eastin Road intersection.

A major accident on the Bay Bridge created a traffic nightmare in the eastbound direction on Thanksgiving Day for San Francisco Bay Area travelers.

The CHP said 38-year-old Michael Messer was driving his truck eastbound on Ellist street just before 4 a.m.

A suspected drunk driver ran a stop sign last night in the Madera Ranchos, slamming into the side of a Cal Fire engine.

Arturo Gonzalez was identified as the victim by the Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the CHP said.

Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched at 12:44 a.m. to the 10700 block of Beverly Boulevard, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher, who added that at least one of the three was critically injured.

The crash occurred around 3 p.m. Sunday at 54th and Cimarron streets, according to a release from the Los Angeles Police Department’s South Traffic Division.

While the cause of the accident is being investigated, Villanueva called it an accident and said there were no indications that Woods was impaired in any way.

ne person died Sunday morning in a three-car collision on Interstate 80 in Hercules, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Moments later, a 36-year-old man riding a 2018 Kawasaki Ninja on southbound 101 drove straight into the disabled Honda at an unknown speed, hitting the right rear passenger door, the CHP said.

Investigators determined a woman heading southbound on Highway 33 veered off of the road, onto the righthand shoulder and then overcorrected into oncoming traffic.

Officers responded to an 11:13 p.m. report of a non-injury collision between a car and an SUV on Interstate 80, and eight minutes later a second collision was reported involving a vehicle rear-ending a big-rig truck near the on-ramp to Treasure Island Road.

Officers say around 5:30 am Sunday, 25-year-old Erick Torres of Bakersfield was driving with three people in his truck.

Police in San Francisco are searching for the driver in a Tuesday night hit-and-run crash near the Civic Center that left one person dead and three other people injured, one critically.

The crash happened on Jackson Road, which is just west of Excelsior Road, around 5:45 p.m., the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said on social media.

The California Highway Patrol says a woman has been killed in a crash between two vehicles in Fresno County.

The car overturned and ended up in a dirt field. The 22-year-old woman, one of the passengers, was pronounced dead at the scene after being ejected from the car. She was not believed to be wearing a seat belt.

CHP policy prevents it from confirming the identify of a victim before it has received notice the family has been notified; however, officer Mike Lee was authorized to provide more information about what happened.

27-year-old Mariana Ramirez, a Fresno resident, was arrested on felony DUI charges.

The Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner’s office identified Johnny Martinez, 43, as the victim in the crash. His city of residency was not immediately known.

The incident happened around 2 a.m. on Lankershim Boulevard. The Los Angeles Police Department and Fire Department responded to the scene and found a man in his 20s who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Thieves took the Zeledon's Bakery on Wheels van from a mechanic shop in Los Banos and ended up rolling over into a canal 36 miles away in Merced.

The investigation found that the driver of a Ford Mustang was southbound on Ellenwood when he failed to properly negotiate a curve in the road and let the Ford travel onto the east shoulder, where it hit a tree.

That's when police say a family in a minivan collided head-on with the tow truck, "causing significant injury to several occupants."

One man’s vehicle collided with a truck and median wall before it was hit by another vehicle

The father, who was driving at the time, lost control of the car and collided with a fire hydrant and utility pole at the intersection. Deputies said that the car crashed with so much force that it sheared the fire hydrant off and toppled the utility pole.

The driver of the vehicle that hit the police car and a pedestrian were both taken to trauma facilities, the Sacramento Fire Department said.

The circumstances leading up to the collision were not immediately known, though authorities were dispatched to westbound lanes of the 210 Freeway at around 5:15 p.m. just east of La Tuna Canyon Road offramp.

The man in his 70s was riding his bicycle northbound when he was struck by a vehicle that was also northbound, McCommas said.

Two people died after a car struck a median, became airborne and landed in the pool in a nearby backyard in a Chino neighborhood early Wednesday, police said.

Two people were seriously hurt and two suffered minor injuries, SFFD officials said on social media Saturday morning.

The backup on the bridge continued hours after the crash was cleared due to unrelated police activity, the CHP said.

The wreck occurred around 9:40 p.m., when the vehicle ran off Coombsville Road 20 feet into a ravine near First Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol’s online incident log.

Officers with the Fresno Police Department found the man unresponsive on the ground near Jensen and Armstrong avenues just after 6:30 pm Friday.

The Concord Police Department said the 32-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene of the 1:22 a.m. crash. The driver of the vehicle, a juvenile, was not reported to be injured and was cooperative.