#zayante-road-incident

#zayante-road-incident

The earthquake hit at 1:41 a.m. The epicenter was less than a mile away from the Santa Cruz County community of Boulder Creek. It was about 11 miles northwest of Santa Cruz, 19 miles southwest of downtown San José, and 48 miles southeast of downtown San Francisco.

A big rig traveling on Virginia Street lost control, hitting a fire hydrant and causing flooding in the area before crashing into two cars and a house.

A 62-year-old woman driving a blue Subaru SUV careened into a Ginette NY jewelry store. Authorities reported that the driver attempted to step on the brake, but instead, mistakenly hit the accelerator.

The crash occurred on the northbound 215 freeway near Eucalyptus Avenue around 7:30 p.m., resulting in one fatality and multiple injuries.

The incident took place around 11 a.m. as Benicia police attempted to do a traffic stop. The car went off the highway at Westbound 780, rolling over into the bushes, landing between Columbus Parkway and Glen Cove Road. The woman was ejected and alert, and was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, authorities said.

Six girls ages 14 to 16, who attended Archie Williams High School in San Anselmo, were riding in a Volkswagen SUV on San Geronimo Valley Road in unincorporated Marin County on April 18, 2025, when the driver hit a tree and the car burst into flames. Passengers Olive Koren, Sienna Katz, Josalynn Osborn and Ada Kepley died in the crash, and two people survived, including the driver.

There was a crash early Friday morning at the edge of Pacific Heights in which an SFPD vehicle collided with a car while it was chasing down a different vehicle. As ABC 7 reports, the collision happened around 7:30 am at the intersection of Divisadero and Pine streets, following a chase that began in the area of Geary Boulevard and St. Joseph's Avenue, about six blocks away in Anza Vista.

Authorities are investigating a suspicious death near Lake Berryessa that closed a stretch of Highway 128, according to the Napa County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's public information officer Henry Wofford said a body was found within the closure area, prompting detectives to respond about 3:20 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, and shut down the roadway between Wragg Canyon Road and Monticello Dam for several hours.

On a Sunday evening in October, Robert Cydear, 78, pulled out of the parking lot at Santa Rosa's Friedman's Home Improvement to turn left on Santa Rosa Avenue when his vehicle collided with a patrol SUV driven by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy. The deputy was southbound at the time, trying to to catch up with two suspected street racers when his 2023 Dodge Durango struck Cydear's white 2012 Ford Fusion, crushing its front end.

A California Department of Transportation worker was injured late Wednesday morning when he was hit by a driver on Highway 17, authorities said. The incident happened around 11:45 a.m. north of Redwood Estates, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Ross Lee. Lee said a two-person inspection team from Caltrans headquarters in Sacramento was working on the right shoulder of northbound Highway 17 when a 2016 Jeep veered off the roadway and hit one of them.

A vehicle plunged 500 feet off a cliff and into the ocean while traveling on Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast, officials said. Emergency crews were called at approximately 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday for a report that a car had gone off the roadway at Hurricane Point, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Authorities found the car over the cliff and on the rocks, where one person was pronounced dead.

BIG SUR Monterey County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue assisted with recovery efforts after a vehicle drove off Highway 1 and went over a cliff at Hurricane Point in Big Sur on Tuesday afternoon. At about 4:22 p.m. on Tuesday, emergency dispatchers received multiple 911 calls reporting a vehicle had gone off the roadway and was believed to have entered the water. Big Sur Fire and the Monterey County Sheriff's Office established a coordinated search and rescue operation.

Another day in California, another fatal "accident" taking the lives of innocent Californians whose only misfortune was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This latest incident of driver negligence occurred in Westwood, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 5. The crash is strikingly similar to the one in Burlingame last summer, where a 19-year-old motorist killed 4-year-old Ayden Fang and sent a 6-year-old girl standing beside him on the sidewalk outside a downtown restaurant to Stanford Hospital.