Author name: CCAR Staff

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> Deputies Tuesday morning arrested a man who crashed his vehicle into a light pole while fighting with a woman in the car, according to a San Bernardino County sheriff’s news release. The woman reportedly told deputies the man had threatened to “crash the vehicle into a wash and kill everyone.” The verbal […]

ONTARIO >> An 84-year-old Jurupa Valley woman was killed when the vehicle she was traveling in slammed into the back of a tractor trailer Tuesday night in Ontario, officials said. The crash took place just after 9 p.m. along Jurupa Street near Sarah Place in Ontario, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner’s website. The […]

ATWATER >> A crash that nearly sliced a bus in half on a central California highway killed four people, not the initial report of five, a local sheriff said Wednesday. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke, who also serves as coroner, gave the new total after canvassing hospitals and checking with coroner’s officials in a neighboring […]

ATWATER, Calif. — A bus veered off a central California highway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, killing five people and sending at least five more to hospitals, some with lost limbs, authorities said. Rescuers pulled out “bags of body parts” from the survivors of the crash […]

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> All lanes of the northbound 15 Freeway were shut down at Baseline Avenue for nearly 10 hours after a tractor trailer carrying tires erupted into flames earlier this morning leading to a traffic nightmare, officials said. The incident took place just after 1 a.m. and led to the hours-long shut down, according […]

CLAREMONT >> Tristan Witte, a Harvey Mudd College student killed July 15 alongside a lifelong friend in a horrific freeway crash in Pasadena, is memorialized on a website in his honor. “Tristan was gentle and pure light,” wrote Jon Jacobsen, vice president for Student Affairs and dean of students at the Claremont college. “(He was) […]

SAN BERNARDINO >> After striking a tentative plea deal, a San Bernardino Superior Court judge Monday rescinded his offer to the man who drove a tour bus that crashed and killed eight people three years ago on Highway 38 in Yucaipa. Before the case went to trial July 1, the attorney for Norberto Perez, 56, of Tijuana and […]

LOCKHART, Texas >> Authorities confirmed Sunday that 16 people were killed in the fiery crash of a hot air balloon in Central Texas, saying it will take “a long process” to identify the victims of the worst such disaster in U.S. history. Although the National Transportation Safety Board did not identify the company operating the […]

FONTANA >> Police are investigating the circumstances that lead to the death of an unidentified pick-up truck driver as the vehicle overturned shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday. The vehicle was traveling westbound on West Liberty Parkway when it collided with a median, landed on its roof and slide for a short distances, said Corp. Luis […]