In recent weeks authorities have increased drunken driving patrols and DUI/driver’s license checkpoints as part of a summer crackdown campaign. The increased-enforcement period, which is funded by state and federal funds, ended at 11:59 p.m. Monday. During the campaign police agencies conducted several operations including a multi-agency effort that targeted drivers on Interstate 680. They […]
Blemont Man Identifed As Third Victim in Bay Area Plane Crash
San Mateo – Tuesday the San Mateo County Coroner’s office identified the last of three people killed when a twin-engine plane slammed into a Redwood Shores lagoon. The coroner’s office confirmed that 91-year-old Belmont resident Robert Borrmann as the third victim killed in the Sept. 2 accident. Friends and colleagues of Borrmann, founder of R.E. […]
Car booster seats proven to reduce injuries to children in auto accidents
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave its top marks to 21 of 72 booster seats it evaluated for properly restraining children, or about 30 percent, according to results released today. Last year, the Institute only handed out its “best bet” citation to nine of the 60 seats it reviewed, or 15 percent. A 2009 […]
4 Injured in 13 Vehicle Oakland Crash
OAKLAND — A dump truck driver lost control of his vehicle Wednesday during rush hour traffic while exiting Interstate 580 in Oakland, and set off a chain reaction of accidents that involved 13 cars and injured four people sending them to local hospitals, police said. The rush-hour accident occurred where eastbound Grand Avenue off-ramp meets […]
Watsonville Father and Son Die in Plane Crash
WATSONVILLE – Bob Joseph Ross of Santa Cruz, the owner of United Flight Services, and his son, 32-year-old Michael C. Ross, of Austin, Texas, died in a airplane crash Tuesday, the second small plane connected to the business at Watsonville Municipal Airport to crash in less than a month. The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office said […]
