Author name: CCAR Staff

On May 13, Aric Almirola was involved in a high-speed crash at Kansas Speedway. At first, the three-car accident looked just like any other NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series incident. However, it soon became apparent it wasn’t just another wreck. The race was red-flagged as safety crews cut the roof off to gingerly extricate the […]

With master driver Jack Peters at the wheel, I ride shotgun as we roam the highways and byways of Orange County picking up Uber riders and doing our best to stay alive. A young man in a blue Toyota Corolla so new it still has stickers on the windows navigates the 405 Freeway with both […]

CHINO >> Firefighters worked to free a person from a mangled vehicle following a crash involving a tractor trailer Tuesday morning in Chino, officials said. “Firefighters are in the process of extricating a single male patient from the vehicle,” said Massiel Ladron De Guevara, spokeswoman for the Chino Valley Fire District. Once the critically injured […]

ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) — A U.S. military plane used for refueling crashed into a soybean field in rural Mississippi, killing at least 16 people aboard in a fiery wreck and spreading debris for miles, officials said. Leflore County Emergency Management Agency Director Frank Randle told reporters at a briefing late Monday that 16 bodies […]

ONTARIO >> A motorcyclist who traveled at speeds over 100 mph to escape a pursuing sheriff’s deputy was killed when he crashed into a car in Ontario early Tuesday, authorities said. The man’s name is not being released until his family is notified. About 12:45 a.m., a sheriff’s deputy tried to stop the GSXR1000 motorcycle, […]

ITTA BENA, Miss. >> A U.S. military plane crashed into a field in rural Mississippi on Monday, killing at least 16 people aboard and spreading debris for miles, officials said. Leflore County Emergency Management Agency Director Frank Randle told reporters at a late briefing that 16 bodies had been recovered after the KC-130 spiraled into […]

RIVERSIDE >> A Yucaipa man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence and causing a fatal crash on the 91 Freeway in Riverside, authorities said. The victim, 41-year-old Anaheim resident Hector Montes De Oca, was driving a 1998 Honda east on the 91 Freeway west of Monroe Street about 2:30 a.m. when […]

UPLAND >> A 19-year-old man from the high desert north of Los Angeles died Friday in a motorcycle crash on 210 Freeway in Upland. Roman Anthony Rios of Palmdale was riding east on the 210 at Base Line at an “unknown high rate of speed” when he rear-ended a van about 3:30 p.m., according to […]

LOS ANGELES >> Service was restored Saturday for thousands of Spectrum customers across the Southland after repairs were made to a cut in a large fiber optics line. The outage affected customers in Los Angeles and surrounding areas for nearly 24 hours. “Customers in surrounding LA areas — services have been restored,” Spectrum tweeted at […]