Personal Injury Blog

Skip Van, 54, and Tiffany Chu, 47, both rear passengers in a Tesla, were killed when a stolen silver Hyundai driven by a 14-year-old boy fleeing Elk Grove police ran a red light at Brown Road and Elk Grove Florin Road and broadsided their car. The Tesla driver suffered life-threatening injuries and a front passenger was hospitalized.

A 17-year-old backseat passenger was killed and three other teen occupants were hospitalized early Saturday after a Chevrolet Camaro made an unsafe turning movement and struck a Recology garbage truck on eastbound Interstate 80 near the 7th Street off-ramp in San Francisco, sending the car over the railing and about 25 feet down into an SFPD impound lot. The CHP says drugs and alcohol are not suspected and the cause remains under investigation.

One person riding a motorized scooter was killed Saturday morning, May 30, 2026, in a collision with a vehicle on Sylvan Road near Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights. Officers attempted life-saving measures, but the rider was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver stayed and is cooperating with the Citrus Heights Police Department. The victim’s identity has not been released and the cause remains under investigation.

Two juveniles riding an electric scooter were injured, one of them seriously, when a silver Dodge Durango ran a stop sign and struck them near Bodway Parkway and Waterside Lane in Rohnert Park, then fled. The Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety says surveillance video captured the SUV running the stop sign, and the driver has not yet been identified.

An 86-year-old woman was crossing Sunrise Avenue at Cirby Way in Roseville when a vehicle exiting a parking lot struck her. She was hospitalized with serious but not life-threatening injuries and is expected to survive. Roseville Police arrested the 62-year-old driver on suspicion of felony DUI and booked him into the South Placer County Jail.

A single-engine plane carrying a pilot and two passengers crashed during a landing attempt at Sonoma Valley Airport, also known as Schellville Airport, in Sonoma on May 27, 2026. The California Highway Patrol reported one person with major injuries and two with minor injuries after the aircraft came to rest upside down near the runway. The cause is under investigation by the FAA and NTSB.

A Tracy family’s 2024 Hyundai SUV plunged roughly 100 feet off eastbound U.S. Route 50 near Ice House Road into the South Fork of the American River on May 26, 2026. Maria Fife, 35, and a 5-year-old boy did not survive; two other family members were hospitalized.

Michael Fiscus, 57, of Colfax, was killed on eastbound Interstate 80 near Placer Hills Road north of Auburn when a Freightliner big rig lost control, struck the center divider, and its water tank trailer detached and crossed into his path, striking his Ford F-150. CHP says the big rig driver fled the scene on foot and has not been located, while the trucking company owner is cooperating with investigators.

A 41-year-old motorcyclist died Memorial Day evening after a driver in a 2018 bright blue Nissan Maxima made an illegal U-turn on Florin Road near Power Inn Road and pulled into his path before fleeing. CHP is still searching for the suspect vehicle.

A bicyclist was killed in a Memorial Day crash on Berry Street in Roseville on May 25, 2026. Roseville Police closed the corridor for several hours and the victim has not yet been publicly named.

Michael Bertalan, 45, of San Ramon, died and two others were left in critical condition after a Lexus ES 350 traveling at high speed rear-ended his Volkswagen Jetta in a right-turn lane on westbound Dublin Boulevard, setting off a five-vehicle chain reaction. Dublin Police say the Lexus did not appear to brake before impact.

A Freightliner big rig rear-ended three cars on northbound Highway 99 near Lodi on May 19, 2026, killing two teens in a Kia Forte and hospitalizing five others. The driver fled on foot and was arrested.

Two e-motorcycle riders were killed and two more injured on May 18, 2026, when a pickup driven by a suspected drunk driver slammed into four riders fully stopped at a Mather stop sign. The 24-year-old driver faces 5 felony counts.

A 2023 BMW X4 left Scott Road north of Latrobe Road in the Sloughhouse area shortly after midnight on May 17, 2026, struck a tree, and caught fire. CHP identified two teen victims and said speed was a contributing factor.

Three people were killed and three more were hurt when a 17-year-old driver veered onto an East Oakland sidewalk on May 16, 2026. The Alameda County DA filed vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run charges on May 20.

A 36-year-old Sacramento woman, Brittany Racquel Rankins, was killed in a lane-splitting motorcycle crash on eastbound Highway 12 in Napa County on May 12, 2026. The motorcycle struck a black Honda sedan, Rankins was ejected, and a passing vehicle then struck her.

Andrea Sanchez, 50, of San Leandro, a beloved cafeteria worker known to students as Chef Andrea, was killed when a Mercedes-Benz traveling at more than 60 mph ran the intersection of Corvallis Street and Dartmouth Avenue and struck her Kia. Police say the driver fled on foot. Chuliao Wu, 32, of Oakland, was arrested and charged with gross vehicular manslaughter.

A two-vehicle collision at Baseline Road and Canyon Creek Drive in Roseville on May 10, 2026 killed George Habeeb, 47, according to the Placer County coroner. The driver of the BMW involved was hospitalized.

A late-night head-on crash on State Route 20 west of Williams killed two people on May 8, 2026. A Garberville man, Keith Wittlake, was booked on felony DUI and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

A 41-year-old Sacramento woman, Holly Lynn Goodenough, was killed on eastbound I-80 in Davis on May 7, 2026, after the motorcycle on which she was riding rear-ended a slowing pickup and she was ejected into the path of a big rig.

A roadside mechanic working under a disabled big rig on I-5 near Acampo was killed early May 5, 2026, after a Volvo big rig driver reportedly fell asleep and slammed into the disabled rig.

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