Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor AZUSA - A search will resume later Friday morning after a vehicle went over the side and into the water near Morris Dam.
One person from the vehicle was found near the crash scene. That person was transported by ground to a nearby hospital for treatment, according to dispatch supervisor Troy of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The crash was reported around at 10:23 p.m. July 2, according to Lt. Ed MacKenzie of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s San Dimas Station. The crash occurred along San Gabriel Canyon Road at mile marker 21.67 The vehicle is submerged as much as 17 feet deep. A passerby either observed the crash as it happened, or saw the damage and called authorities, MacKenzie told SGV CityWatch. The crash damaged a reported 100 feet of chain link fence along the roadway, according to the California Highway Patrol. The Los Angeles County Fire Department sent a dive team and used sonar to locate the vehicle, but an extensive search that included a helicopter did not yield an additional victim, according to fire department radio traffic. Search operations will resume with the Sheriff’s Department after 7 a.m., MacKenzie told SGV CityWatch. “Our Emergency Services Detail handles our dive team. They’re trying to get in touch with the folks up on the mountain,” MacKenzie said regarding the continued search operations. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor MOUNTAINS - Authorities are recovering a body Friday found after a vehicle went over Mt. Baldy Road.
Authorities responded to Mt Baldy Road at mile marker 1.47 around 2:15 p.m. June 12. At 4:11 p.m. the CHP confirmed the death, according to California Highway Patrol traffic logs. Neither the CHP, nor the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s San Dimas Station could confirm how far over the side the vehicle fell. Sheriff’s deputies are assisting the CHP at the scene. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor MOUNTAINS - One person was killed Friday after a white BMW slammed into a gate on San Gabriel Canyon Road north of Morris Reservoir in the San Gabriel Mountains. The collision was reported just before 12:30 a.m. April 24. A white BMW slammed into a heavy metal gate used to close the road, according to California Highway patrol traffic logs.
One person was declared dead on arrival, a second person was taken to Foothill Presbyterian Hospital with undisclosed injuries, according to Dispatch Supervisor Troy of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The road was cleared by 5:10 a.m. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES - A Montebello resident was killed on a stretch of the I-10 freeway in Pomona Saturday after he exited his vehicle, the California Highway Patrol said. Christopher Gilpineda, 21, was identified by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. Gilpineda exited his 2017 Honda Civic around 11:25 p.m. after getting a flat tire in the No. 3 and 4 lanes on the westbound I-10 freeway just west of Kellogg Drive. A 2018 Honda Civic first struck Gilpineda’s car before striking him, according to the CHP.
Gilpineda died at the scene of multiple blunt force injuries, the county coroner said All westbound lanes at Kellogg Drive were closed, as well as the northbound and southbound 57 freeway and 71 freeway trans roads to the westbound I-10 freeway, according to the CHP. The Sig Alert ended just before 3 a.m. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor IRWINDALE – A 23-year-old driver was identified as the victim in a fatal crash with a big rig February 26. Juan Carlos Recendez of Baldwin Park was identified by the Los Angeles County Department of medical Examiner-Coroner. The crash occurred on the northbound side of the freeway just south of Lower Azusa Road around 2:09 a.m. February 26. The No. 1 and 2 lanes were blocked for two hours, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Debris was reportedly spread across all lanes, forcing CHP officers to temporarily close all northbound lanes. Baldwin Park Police assisted the CHP by shutting down the northbound 605 freeway on ramp at Ramona Boulevard. The Los Angeles County Coroner arrived to retrieve the victim at 3:19 a.m. A Sig Alert, issued for the No. 1 and 2 lanes, was cancelled at 5:08 a.m. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor PICO RIVERA - A sedan slammed into a semi, killing the car’s driver on Rosemead Boulevard early Sunday morning. The sedan crashed into the semi on southbound Rosemead Boulevard south of San Gabriel Boulevard around 12:21 a.m. February 23. According to early CHP reports, the sedan went over and embankment and crashed, according to California Highway Patrol traffic logs. The victim died at the scene.
A Sig Alert was issued for nearly four hours for north and southbound lanes of Rosemead Boulevard between San Gabriel Boulevard and Gallatin Avenue. Northbound lanes were open sometime before 5 a.m. The Sig Alert was canceled just before 5:30 a.m.
Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor
REGION - The California Highway Patrol continues to investigate a crash on a mountain road above Azusa that left a motorcycle rider with broken bones.
The crash occurred February 15 on Highway 39 south of North Fork Road just before 1 p.m. The rider was taken to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center for his injuries. Charges may be considered once the investigation is concluded. No one has been arrested yet, according to Rodrigo Jimenez of the California Highway Patrol Baldwin Park Office. The motorcycle rider was southbound on Highway 39 at mile marker 28.89. A black BMW was headed northbound when the driver pulled away at high speed from another vehicle recording it, Jimenez told SGV CityWatch. The BMW driver, a 19-year-old Los Angeles resident, sideswiped a Chrysler 300 while making a turn and slammed head-on into a Yamaha motorcycle as the BMW crossed into opposing lanes, Jimenez told SGV CityWatch.
In the video, the Yamaha is thrust backwards by the impact with the BMW, The Yamaha was hit from behind by a Hyundai Veloster, projecting it into the air just above the motorcycle rider who somersaulted in the air before hitting the pavement. The BMW then struck the front of the Ford Mustang.
Initially, medics determined the 25-year-old motorcycle rider from Santa Ana suffered a fractured right hand and a fractured right leg which also suffered lacerations and abrasions. “I’m very surprised he survived,” Jimenez said of the motorcycle rider. “I’m sure, had he not been wearing a helmet, it would have ended up being a fatality.” SGV CityWatch reached out to the rider, but he has not returned a request for an interview. The driver of the Veloster, a 21-year-old from Huntington Beach, received abrasions to his left shoulder and abdomen, Jimenez said, who cautioned about unnecessary driving habits on mountain roads. “Those roads are nice, right? The scenery is great, but at the end of the day it’s everyone’s responsibility to drive safe,” Jimenez said. “It’s not a racetrack, it’s not a closed course. If you leave your lane, you’re putting other lives at risk.” Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES - An accused drunk driver pleaded no contest Monday to the two charges against him in a crash that killed a man and severely injured the man’s wife. Luis Angel Ureno, 29, pleaded no contest to one felony count each of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated without gross negligence and driving with a .08 percent blood alcohol content causing injury, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney Public Information Officer Ricardo Santiago. 42-year-old Hector Espinoza Soltero was killed in the September 18, 2017 collision on the I-10 freeway in Pomona. Espinoza’s wife, Roxana Peña-Beltran, was severely injured. Ureno was speeding when he struck the rear of Soltero’s vehicle. Ureno, a Department of Homeland Security officer at the time of the crash.
Under the terms of the negotiated plea deal, Ureno is expected to be sentenced to three years in state prison. The hearing is scheduled for March 2 at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor REGION - The driver of a 2018 Honda Civic died after his car veered across the southbound 57 freeway near Diamond and crashed over a dirt embankment Friday. The California Highway Patrol identified Carlos Silva Cabrera, a 36-year-old Riverside man, as the driver who died at the scene south of Brea Canyon Road December 27. The crash occurred around 10:05 p.m. Silva Cabrera was in an unknown lane at an unknown speed when he drifted into the dirt embankment.
CHP traffic logs initially indicated the Honda veered into a canyon. By 10:33 p.m., a CHP officer found the vehicle. A Sig Alert was issued for the No. 3 and 4 lanes at 3:05 a.m. The Sig Alert was cancelled at 5:52 a.m., the CHP said. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES - A 21-year-old woman was named as the victim of a multi-vehicle wreck on the 210 freeway December 15. Jennifer Gainer Goldsbury was identified by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. Four vehicles were involved in a colossal collision caused by an unknown driver who abandoned a black Ford Fusion after hitting a guardrail on the westbound side of the 210 freeway east of Buena Vista Street at 2:45 a.m. The drivers of a 2016 Toyota Highlander, 2006 Chevrolet Malibu, 2010 Ford Mustang and 2015 Ford Escape could not brake in time to avoid the Ford Fusion due to the oil, coolant, transmission fluid and brake fluid spilled across lanes of the freeway, according to a California Highway Patrol collision report obtained by SGV CityWatch. A passenger in the Highlander, later identified as Goldsbury, was ejected and sustained fatal injuries. She died at the scene, the CHP said.
Goldsbury was reported not wearing a seatbelt -- the only one among the injured to not be properly restrained, the CHP said. One of the injured drivers, 25-year-old Carlos Estrada of Woodland Hills, was jailed on suspicion of driving under the influence. It is unclear if Estrada’s DUI driving caused Goldsbury’s fatal injuries, the CHP said. Estrada suffered a fractured thumb. Others injured suffered from complaints of pain. The driver of the Highlander suffered a parietal hematoma and broken sternum, the collision report listed. It is unclear if the driver of the abandoned Ford Fusion was arrested. Anyone with additional information on the crash is urged to call Officer D. Gonzalez of the CHP Baldwin Park Office at 626-33-1164. |
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