Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor MOUNTAINS - A motorcyclist was pronounced dead after crashing on Highway 39 south of Crystal Lake. The crash was reported to the CHP around 10:29 a.m. December 15. A motorcyclist crashed near mile marker 33.80. A passerby reported the rider was not moving, according to California Highway Patrol traffic logs. Firefighters with the U.S. Forest Service performed CPR on the rider upon arrival to the scene.
Medics with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Special Enforcement Bureau arrived by helicopter and also treated the rider before pronouncing death, according to U.S. Forest Service radio traffic and the CHP. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor MOUNTAINS - A motorcyclist died after crashing on Mt. Baldy Rd. south of Glendora Ridge Road, the California Highway Patrol reported. Officers were dispatched to the collision at 8:33 a.m. December 15. The motorcycle is still on or near the roadway while the rider went over the side of the mountain, according California Highway Patrol traffic logs. Both northbound and southbound lanes of Mt. Baldy Road are shut down during the recovery operation, the CHP said. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor UPDATE, 1:52 a.m.: No victims were found after a thorough search of the mountainside by a helicopter and the San Dimas Search and Rescue Team. MOUNTAINS - Firefighters are continuing to search for victims after a vehicle was found crashed about 200 feet over Glendora Mountain Road. Deputies and the California Highway Patrol were alerted to the crash from information through OnStar, which alerted authorities to a rollover crash with airbag deployment, according to CHP radio traffic. The crash is reported on Glendora Mountain Road south of Glendora Ridge Road. Firefighters, dispatched at 12:53 a.m. October 2 have yet to find a single victim of the crash. Two first responders are doing an initial sweep of the scene until a helicopter arrives to thoroughly search the mountainside. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor MOUNTAINS - One person died at the scene after a vehicle rolled over and ignited Sunday far above the La Crescenta area. The solo crash occurred near Big Tujunga Canyon Road and Vogel Flats Road September 29. Firefighters were dispatched around 11:53 a.m. to a reported overturned vehicle. The driver is the reported fatality, according to Melanie Flores, dispatch supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
According to California Highway Patrol traffic logs, all four occupants were ejected in the crash. The crashed vehicle was fully engulfed. No traffic lanes at or near the crash are blocked, according to CHP Officer Peter Nicholson of the CHP Traffic Management Center. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor MOUNTAINS - A reported robbery suspect who fled into the wilderness after a pursuit crash was taken into custody around 1:46 a.m. Monday. The suspect allegedly robbed someone along Angeles Crest Highway just before 1:30 a.m. September 16. The suspect was quickly found near mile marker 29 and detained at gunpoint, but fled in a vehicle, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s radio traffic. The suspect fled, at times as fast as 65 miles per hour, in what was initially described as a grey Jeep south on Angeles Crest until the suspect crashed and possibly disabled a front tire around mile marker 27.3. The suspect stopped and fled the vehicle into the wilderness, but ultimately surrendered. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES - Investigators are still working on positively identifying both men killed in a head-on crash in Pasadena September 2. Two men described as being in their 20s died at the scene of a crash after the driver of a black Toyota Corolla destroyed an LED radar in the 500 block of North Orange Grove Boulevard just before 11 p.m., Pasadena Police said.
The driver and left rear passenger were killed in the crash, which injured two other of the Corolla’s passengers. The injured passengers were hospitalized in stable condition, Pasadena Police said. Evidence at the scene suggested speed played a factor in the crash. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor MOUNTAINS - A 46-year-old motorcyclist was killed after apparently drifting into opposing traffic and colliding into a Chevy Tahoe August 14. The unidentified man died after colliding on San Gabriel Canyon Road north of mile marker 35.68. The crash occurred around 11:09 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. The rider of the 2018 Suzuki motorcycle was southbound at an unknown speed, failed to negotiate a turn and hit a 2012 Chevrolet Tahoe which was northbound at 25 miles per hour.
“The Suzuki then collided with the left front of the Chevrolet and the motorcyclist was ejected from his motorcycle. The motorcyclist sustained fatal injuries as a result of the collision,” according to Officer Sullinger of the CHP Baldwin Park Office. The 66-year-old driver of the Tahoe sustained an abrasion and swelling to his left forearm. His 62-year-old passenger was uninjured. Alcohol and drugs are not suspected factors in the crash. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES - The 61-year-old woman accused of intentionally killing a cyclist and trying to kill other riders in Claremont pleaded not guilty Friday. Sandra Marie Wicksted, a Claremont resident, faces one count of murder and four counts of attempted murder in the November 3, 2018 incident. The complaint includes allegations of using a vehicle as a deadly and dangerous weapon and the crimes were willful, deliberate and premeditated, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney Information Officer Ricardo Santiago. Wicksted is accused of trying to run over four cyclists before fatally striking 54-year-old Leslie Ann Pray. The collision occurred at Radcliffe Drive and Mills Avenue at 11:35 a.m.
During the crash that killed Pray, Wicksted’s green 1996 Mercury Tracer station wagon slammed into a wall and became heavily damaged. Radcliffe faces a possible maximum sentence of life in state prison if convicted as charged, Santiago said. Radcliffe is scheduled to return to court September 3. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES - The suspect accused of killing a father and his 1-year-old child in an alleged DUI crash two years ago was ordered to stand trial. 26-year-old Hans T. Guloy, also known as Hans Timothy Cruz Guloy, pleaded not guilty July 17 after being order to stand trial for for a double fatal crash on the 60 freeway near Diamond Bar Boulevard November 26, 2017. Guloy faces two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated as well as one count each of driving under the influence of an alcoholic beverage causing injury, driving with a .08% blood alcohol content causing injury, hit-and-run driving resulting in death or serious injury to another person and perjury by declaration, according to Ricardo Santiago of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The felony information includes allegations of fleeing the scene of the crime and causing great bodily injury or death to more than one victim, according to Deputy District Attorney Cindy Park.
Guloy allegedly was drunk behind the wheel when he hit a vehicle carrying 29-year-old Abraham Franco, 1-year-old Abby Franco, Abraham’s wife and their two other children. The family’s vehicle hit the divider and was struck by a second vehicle. The mother suffered serious injuries. The injuries of the other two children were not disclosed. Guloy is accused of fleeing the scene and later told authorities that his vehicle was stolen when it crashed. Guloy is being held in lieu of $750,000. He is scheduled for a pretrial hearing August 27 in Pomona Superior Court. He faces a possible maximum sentence of 22 years in state prison if convicted as charged, Santiago said. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor LOS ANGELES - The motorcyclist who died in a Pasadena crash that involved a large truck was recently identified. Douglas Thatcher, a 58-year-old Riverside man, was named by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. Thatcher died from blunt trauma. His death was ruled accidental.
Thatcher was reportedly lane-splitting on the west 210 freeway at Hill Avenue in Pasadena July 16 when he collided with a Volkswagen Beetle in the HOV lane around 12:20 p.m. Thatcher was thrown from his ride and struck by the truck, the California Highway Patrol said. |
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