A Caltrain struck and killed a man on the tracks in Sunnyvale on Tuesday evening during heavy commute time, according to the commuter line. This marks the fifth death since June 1, 2011. A southbound commuter train hit the man at the Lawrence station in Sunnyvale at 6:45 p.m., Caltrain officials said. The Lawrence Station […]
Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents
Motorcyclist killed in Hwy 101 accident
A motorcyclist was killed this morning in a collision on southbound Highway 101 near San Tomas Expressway. According to the Highway Patrol they began receiving reports just before 6 a.m., of motorcyclist down in the slow lane of 101 just south of San Tomas Expressway, according to Officer Peter Van Eckhardt. Witnesses told the CHP […]
1 dead 3 injured after UCSF shuttle bus and big-rig accident
One man was killed and three were injured after an accident involving a big rig and a UCSF shuttle bus in San Francisco‘s Hayes Valley neighborhood this morning, police said. The accident, which occurred at Octavia and Oak streets at 6:20 a.m., happened when a Peterbilt tractor-trailer truck carrying four cars collided with the UCSF […]
Driver of weekend fatality on 280 identifed
The driver who died on a San Jose freeway over the weekend was identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office Monday as Jordan Campbell a 22 year-old resident of San Jose. The California Highway Patrol reported Campbell was driving a silver Toyota Scion at a high rate of speed on southbound Interstate 280 […]
Big-rig driver identifed
The big-rig driver who slammed into an Amtrak train in Nevada, killing himself and at least five people on the train, was identified Monday as a 43-year-old Lawrence Ruben Valli II of Winnemucca, NV. Valli was blamed for an accident in 2007 that resulted in serious injuries and racked up numerous traffic citations after getting […]
