Author name: CCAR Staff

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 After striking a tentative plea deal, a San Bernardino Superior Court judge Monday rescinded his offer to the man who drove a tour bus that crashed and killed eight people three years ago on Highway 38 in Yucaipa.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 […]

LOCKHART, Texas >> A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas on Saturday, causing what authorities described as a “significant loss of life.” Erik Grosof with the National Transportation Safety Board would not provide an exact number of how many people died. The crash happened at […]

CLAREMONT >> A Foothill Transit bus crashed into an electrical pole Friday afternoon, prompting a power outage in the area and the Claremont Police Department to close Indian Hill Boulevard for about half a block south of Foothill Boulevard. The incident happened at 5:30 p.m., according to an alert from Claremont police. The driver was […]