1.  Daily Review, The (Hayward, CA)

September 11, 2004
   
Section: Local & Regional News

Despite some progress, Vasco still playing the Grim Reaper
Author: Mike White, STAFF WRITER

Article Text:

Since August of last year, when he lost his wife in an accident on Vasco Road, Jeff Altman has told the Legislature several times about the need for tougher traffic laws. He's also participated in a community action group seeking better safety measures.

Some progress has been made. Other efforts have failed.

Still,But the carnage continues.

On Friday morning, Altman was driving to work along Vasco when he passed a horrific accident in which four people were killed and two others were critically injured.

When he passed the accident, "my stomach turned," said Altman, of Brentwood. "A lot of measures have been taken, but none have been completed to prevent a head-on collision. A barrier along the road -- that's the only thing that could have prevented it."

The deadly accident Friday was the first on Vasco since Altman's wife, Patricia, died last year. Her car collided with a utility trailer that had broken loose from a truck traveling in the opposite direction.

Joanne Flynn knows full well how the families and friends of those who died Friday are feeling. Patricia Altman was her best friend.

"My prayers and thoughts are with the families," Flynn said. "It's a nightmare for them today."

Patricia Altman was the seventh person to die in accidents on Vasco in 2003, and the 10th since 2001. Once a seldom-used country road, 16-mile Vasco Road has become a major route linking eastern Contra Costa County with southern Alameda County.

Altman's death and the others triggered safety efforts. State Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, introduced legislation that would have created a double-fine zone for the road, but the bill died last month after legislators amended it to include roads throughout the state.

Torlakson will reintroduce the bill as soon as possible, perhaps in December, said aide Robert Oakes. Torlakson and Oakes discussed the issue Friday after learning about the accident on Vasco.

In the meantime, "please, please slow down on Vasco," Oakes said.

Contra Costa County workers next week will begin installing a center-line "rumble strip" on a 12-mile stretch of Vasco between Walnut Boulevard and the Alameda County line. The raised center strips are designed to discourage drivers from illegally passing cars.

On Friday, many people, including Flynn, said the rumble strips would not have prevented the kind of erratic driving that authorities said may have contributed to the accident. What is needed, they said, is a freeway with a center divider.

"The rumble strips have proven effective on two-lane roads in other areas," Contra Costa County Supervisor Millie Greenberg said. "But everyone is in agreement here that we need a four-lane divided highway on Vasco."

Correspondent Nate Tabak contributed to this report.

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Record Number: 2395127


      2.  Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - August 13, 1994

3 WOMEN HURT IN FREEWAY COLLISIONS,  LOOSE TRAILER CROSSED MEDIAN IN SIMI    
     Three women were injured and four cars damaged in a series of traffic collisions Friday that began when a loose trailer crossed the Simi Valley-San Fernando Valley Freeway (118) median, officials said.The trailer broke loose from an eastbound truck at 9:25 a.m., crossed a dirt median east of Erringer Road and immediately triggered three westbound car crashes, the California Highway Patrol reported."The trailer came across the freeway, and I was trying to stop, but I...



       3.  The Orange County Register - August 12, 2003

Boat trailer turns deadly on the 55 // Motorcycle rider loses life as nautical cargo smashes into him.   
     TUSTIN A trailer carrying a 22-foot sailboat came loose during rush hour Monday morning, careening across the northbound Costa Mesa (55) Freeway and killing a motorcyclist. The driver of the U-Haul rental truck towing the boat stopped, walked back and looked at the motorcyclist dying on the pavement. Then, police said, he fled. ``He became hysterical,'' California Highway Patrol Lt. John Marinez said. ``Witnesses said he just turned and ran back to the..


       4.   Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - December 16, 2004

FREAK ACCIDENT TURNS FATAL,  TRAILER COMES LOOSE FROM SUV, LEADING TO DEADLY CRASH   
     CANYON COUNTRY - A Lancaster man driving a pickup truck was killed Wednesday on Sierra Highway when a trailer came loose from the SUV in front of him and caused a third vehicle to lose control and collide with the pickup, authorities said.The victim, who investigators said was in his mid-60s, was driving north in the 15100 block of Sierra Highway about 12:20 p.m. when a southbound Ford Expedition swerved to avoid the runaway trailer and crashed into the driver's side door of...



        5. RUNAWAY TRAILER KILLS MAN    Full Article Per Request  We are heartbroken.

     California Highway Patrol officers Thursday were still trying to determine what caused a utility trailer to come loose from a truck and crash into another vehicle, killing a Fresno man.Dead is Robert Wesley Babcock, 28.The accident was reported shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 99 in southern Tulare County, less than one mile from the Kern County border and north of Delano.Babcock was taken to the Delano Regional Medical
Center in Kern County where he was pronounced...
Fresno Bee, The (CA)

March 30, 1990
    
Edition: HOME
Section: METRO
Page: B8

RUNAWAY TRAILER KILLS MAN
Author: Bee Metro staff

Dateline: DELANO

Article Text:

California Highway Patrol officers Thursday were still trying to determine what caused a utility trailer to come loose from a truck and crash into another vehicle, killing a Fresno man.

Dead is Robert Wesley Babcock, 28.

The accident was reported shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 99 in southern Tulare County, less than one mile from the Kern County border and north of Delano.

Babcock was taken to the Delano Regional Medical Center in Kern County where he was pronounced dead about 45 minutes after the accident.

According to the CHP, Alfred Bertelli, 58, of Kingsburg was driving a truck which was pulling an empty cattle-feed trailer when the trailer became loose.

Officers said the runaway trailer shot across the center divider and collided almost head-on with a northbound pickup truck driven by Babcock, who was alone.



        6.  Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) - May 7, 2002

Cops and courts   
     Jene Berry, 39, of Lodi, was driving south on Highway 1 about 3:10 a.m. in a 1998 Mack truck full of cement when the two trailers he was towing came loose. He had just left the RMC Pacific Materials cement plant in Davenport. California Highway Patrol Sgt. Frank Koss said investigators do not know why the trailers came loose, but both tipped. The road remained open but one lane was blocked for several hours while workers cleared the wreck. Berry was not injured.FELTON SPCA...


       7.    Redding Record Searchlight (CA) - September 24, 1995

PEDESTRIAN AND MOTORISTS FLEE RUNAWAY FISHING BOAT   
     A Tennessee man and a Redding couple are unhurt after an aluminum boat and its trailer broke loose from a truck and rammed them on Eureka Way.Twenty-seven-year-old Jim Wilson of Memphis, Tenn., was walking along the side of Eureka Way near the Sunset Market in Redding on Saturday afternoon when he saw an 18-foot boat and trailer bearing down on him - fast.''I thought I was going to die,'' he said.Only seconds before, the boat and...


      8.   Fresno Bee, The (CA) - September 27, 1990

LUMBER TRAILER BREAKS LOOSE, DEMOLISHES MOBILE HOME   
     A runaway trailer loaded with more than 10 tons of lumber crashed into a mobile home park Wednesday morning, destroying a trailer home and damaging two parked cars, Fowler police reported.The occupants of the trailer home, Margarita Bolima and her son, Richard McKay, were not injured, police said."They were not home," said Officer Michael Scheppegrell. "They were at the manager's office."Bolima and her son reportedly had...
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    9.   Marin Independent Journal (San Rafael, CA) - June 26, 2006

Loose trailer causes 4,000 to lose power   
     A small trailer that broke loose from a vehicle, struck a pole in San Anselmo and caused a power outage early Sunday morning, police said.The outage affected about 4,000 people, police said.Roger Christiansen of Fairfax was driving east in the 900 block of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at about 5:45 a.m. Sunday when the trailer he was towing released from the rear of the vehicle, police said.It rolled off the road and hit a power pole, according to San Anselmo police.Several...



     10. Sun, The (San Bernardino, CA) - August 18, 2006

Sig-alert issued in five-car freeway crash   
     FONTANA - A stakebed truck driver, whose forklift came loose from his trailer, triggered a five-car pileup on Interstate 10 this morning.California Highway Patrol officers issued a Sig-alert and closed down the fast lane and the one next to it on the eastbound 10 at Cherry Avenue. The Sig-alert was expected to be in effect about an hour, said CHP Officer Sean Cooper.Officers said the 7:45 a.m. crash occurred when several drivers were unable to avoid a forklift that came loose from a...


    11. Press-Enterprise, The (Riverside, CA) - May 10, 1996

Tale of a horse trailer has a hitch The racehorse has minor injuries in the Highway 79 accident.   
     TEMECULA One minute, the horse was riding peacefully in the back of a trailer.The next, he was knocked onto his side, probably wondering what happened.After a trailer hitch worked loose from the pickup, the trailer rolled free for a few seconds and fell over.Irish Commitment, a 4-year-old racehorse, suffered only a few cuts above his right eye and a scrape to his chest in the midafternoon accident on Highway 79 South and La Paz Street.Francisco Rodriguez, the...



    12.  Fresno Bee, The (CA) - October 13, 1989

CATTLE TRAILER LISTS AND TOPPLES NEAR LATON DOUBLE-DECKER WITH 20 STEERS TIES UP TRAFFIC FOR2-1/2 HOURS   
     A double-deck cattle trailer carrying 20 steers to a slaughterhouse overturned Thursday near Laton, injuring one of the animals and tying up traffic for about 2-1/2 hours.The accident happened at noon on Fowler Avenue south of Elkhorn Avenue about three miles north of Laton. The lengthy tie-up occurred while the steers were transferred from one trailer to another.Ron Caetano, 23, of Lemoore was driving a rig pulling two double-deck cattle trailers when the rear trailer went out...


    13. Whittier Daily News, The (CA) - February 4, 2008

Around the Region   
     BALDWIN PARK - A driver was killed on a freeway Monday when a tire came loose from a trailer and struck him, officials said.The dead man was identified as 48-year-old Gil Tae Kim of Rancho Cucamonga, California Highway Patrol Officer Edmund Zorrilla said.The incident, which triggered a three-car crash, was reported just before 11 a.m. on the 605 Freeway near Ramona Boulevard, Zorrilla said.A Long Beach man was driving a 2006 Ford F-350 pickup truck towing a trailer northbound on...



    14. Ventura County Star (CA) - December 30, 2006

Driver flees after crash on 126   
     Two portable toilets were destroyed Friday when a tractor-trailer collided with a loose flatbed trailer on Highway 126 near Fillmore, the California Highway Patrol reported.The accident occurred about 10:50 a.m. when a pickup pulling the toilets on a flatbed trailer drove across the Fillmore railroad crossing heading east.The trailer disconnected and a tractor-trailer, which was heading west, struck it."It obliterated the Port-A-Potties," said CHP Officer...


     15. Mountain Democrat (Placerville, CA) - September 12, 2000

Trailer hits motorcyclist   
     COLOMA A runaway trailer got the better of apassing motorcyclist on Highway 49 Saturday, according to California HighwayPatrol officers. Anthony Michael Steneck, a 39-year-old Placervilleresident, was flown to Sutter Roseville Medical Center with road rash andmultiple open fractures to his left leg after a trailer broke loose from itstruck and ran into his 1983 Yamaha motorcycle.Officers said 50-year-oldDavid A. Chandler of Placerville was driving southbound on Highway 49, northof...


     16. Long Beach Press-Telegram (CA) - March 7, 2004

TRAILER DRIVER KILLED IN 710 CRASH ID'D   
     A Norwalk man was identified as the tractor-trailer driver who was killed in an accident on the Long Beach (710) Freeway near the Artesia (91) Freeway, a coroner's official said Saturday.Armando Felix, 34, was pronounced dead after the accident, which happened Friday on the northbound 710, according to coroner's Lt. Erik Arbuthnot.A California Highway Patrol statement said Felix was driving his tractor at 2:10 p.m., when a trailer came loose from another...


      17. Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) - November 12, 1999

WEST COVINA CRASH KILLS 2, INJURES 8   
     Two people were killed Thursday when a trailer came loose from a car carrier, setting off a fiery chain-reaction crash in West Covina involving three big rigs and 15 vehicles in all, authorities said.The accident happened shortly before 3 p.m. on the eastbound San Bernardino (10) Freeway just west of Vincent Avenue, said California Highway Patrol Officer Richard Perez. He said two people were confirmed dead in the crash. Eight others were hospitalized, he said.It was unclear if some...


    18. Sonoma Index-Tribune (CA) - November 14, 1997

fatal   
     Robbi Pengelly/Index-Tribune A 44-year-old woman was killed instantly when her pickup was hit by a trailer that broke loose from a semi-truck on Highway 12/121 Wednesday afternoon.A 44-year-old woman was killed instantly Wednesday afternoon when a trailer broke loose from a semi-truck and smashed into her pickup on Highway 12/121 between Sonoma and Napa.The crash occurred at 1 p.m., in the second of a series of tight highway curves just a mile east of the Napa-Sonoma county line,.


    19. Valley Times (Pleasanton, CA) - December 12, 1999

BART TRAIN HITS TRAILER   
     PLEASANTON A BART train crashed into a truck trailer that had careened off eastbound Interstate 580 at Hopyard Road Saturday morning.No one was injured in the crash, but BART service was disrupted for about an hour, from shortly before 9 a.m. until almost 10, said California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Rogers.The three-axle flatbed trailer broke loose from a truck, crossed freeway lanes and slammed against the BART fence in the center divider, he said.Part of the trailer came to...

    20.  Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - August 13, 1994

3 WOMEN HURT IN FREEWAY COLLISIONS,  LOOSE TRAILER CROSSED MEDIAN IN SIMI   
     Three women were injured and four cars damaged in a series of traffic collisions Friday that began when a loose trailer crossed the Simi Valley-San Fernando Valley Freeway (118) median, officials said.The trailer broke loose from an eastbound truck at 9:25 a.m., crossed a dirt median east of Erringer Road and immediately triggered three westbound car crashes, the California Highway Patrol reported."The trailer came across the freeway, and I was trying to stop, but I...
 
       21.       Chico Enterprise-Record (Chico, CA) - October 23, 2009

Runaway trailer causes accident on Skyway   
     CHICO -- A trailer loaded with sand came loose from a pickup eastbound on the Skyway Thursday morning, then flew across the median and collided head-on with a vehicle coming the other way.Chico resident Sue Nickas, 61, suffered minor injuries. She was released after treatment from Enloe Medical Center.Nickas said she had just finished playing golf at Tuscan Ridge and was headed back to Chico.As she passed Honey Run Road, Nickas said she suddenly saw a trailer bounding...

       22.  The Orange County Register - August 12, 2003

Boat trailer turns deadly on the 55 // Motorcycle rider loses life as nautical cargo smashes into him.   
     TUSTIN A trailer carrying a 22-foot sailboat came loose during rush hour Monday morning, careening across the northbound Costa Mesa (55) Freeway and killing a motorcyclist. The driver of the U-Haul rental truck towing the boat stopped, walked back and looked at the motorcyclist dying on the pavement. Then, police said, he fled. ``He became hysterical,''California Highway Patrol Lt. John Marinez said. ``Witnesses said he just turned...
     
       23.  Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) - September 1, 1991

(Farm trailer kills children),  (Doves not drugs slogan bashed) (Fair queen plays the field)   
     (Farm trailer kills children) PLAINVIEW, Texas -- A farm trailer broke loose from a pickup Saturday and pinned a young brother and sister against another trailer in their aunt's front yard, killing both children.The pickup had been pulling two trailers when the second one broke loose.The victims were Aurelio Solorzano Jr., 6, and Jennifer Marie Solorzano, 2.(Doves not drugs slogan bashed) COLUMBIA, S.C. -- "Shoot for the Future --...

       24.  Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) - May 7, 2002

Cops and courts   
     Jene Berry, 39, of Lodi, was driving south on Highway 1 about 3:10 a.m. in a 1998 Mack truck full of cement when the two trailers he was towing came loose. He had just left the RMC Pacific Materials cement plant in Davenport. California Highway Patrol Sgt. Frank Koss said investigators do not know why the trailers came loose, but both tipped. The road remained open but one lane was blocked for several hours while workers cleared the wreck. Berry was not injured.FELTON SPCA...


       25.  Press-Enterprise, The (Riverside, CA)

May 10, 1996
   
Edition: TEMECULA-MURRIETA; DESERT & PASS; HEMET-SAN JACINTO; SOUTHWEST; MORENO VALLEY
Section: LOCAL
Page: B01

Topics:
Index Terms:
ACCIDENTS
VEHICULAR

Tale of a horse trailer has a hitch

The racehorse has minor injuries in the Highway 79 accident.
Author: Ila Adke; The Press-Enterprise

Article Text:

TEMECULA

One minute, the horse was riding peacefully in the back of a trailer.

The next, he was knocked onto his side, probably wondering what happened.

After a trailer hitch worked loose from the pickup, the trailer rolled free for a few seconds and fell over.

Irish Commitment, a 4-year-old racehorse, suffered only a few cuts above his right eye and a scrape to his chest in the midafternoon accident on Highway 79 South and La Paz Street.

Francisco Rodriguez, the horse's handler, said he was driving westbound on Highway 79, and "when I looked back, there wasn't anything there."

The trailer had become unhitched around La Paz Street, igniting some dry grass before coming to a rest on its side with the horse inside.

Rodriguez said the horse wasn't very upset, just a little startled.

By the time police arrived, the grass had stopped burning and the horse was up on his feet.

While a tow truck operator tried to pull the trailer upright, Rodriguez walked Irish Commitment in the field of dry, yellow prickly grass by the road.

A few minutes after the accident, the horse's jockey, James Felton, passed by the scene.

"I thought, that trailer looks familiar. I wonder what horse it is?" Felton said.

Then he saw Irish Commitment and stopped to make sure the horse was OK. He said as long as a veterinarian agrees the horse doesn't have any injuries more serious than the cuts and scrapes, he'll ride tomorrow at Los Alamitos racetrack in Orange County.

Caption:
Steve Medd

The Press-Enterprise

Jockey James Felton kisses Irish Commitment, after a trailer in which the horse was riding overturned on Highway 79 near La Paz Street in Temecula. Felton happened to pass the accident site and stopped.
PHOTO

       26.  Redding Record Searchlight (CA) - September 24, 1995

PEDESTRIAN AND MOTORISTS FLEE RUNAWAY FISHING BOAT   
     A Tennessee man and a Redding couple are unhurt after an aluminum boat and its trailer broke loose from a truck and rammed them on Eureka Way.Twenty-seven-year-old Jim Wilson of Memphis, Tenn., was walking along the side of Eureka Way near the Sunset Market in Redding on Saturday afternoon when he saw an 18-foot boat and trailer bearing down on him - fast.''I thought I was going to die,''he said.Only seconds before, the...

 
       27.  NO INSPECTIONS ON THESE CHEAP TRAILERS...
Whittier Daily News, The (CA)

February 4, 2008
   
Section: News

Around the Region

Article Text:

BALDWIN PARK - A driver was killed on a freeway Monday when a tire came loose from a trailer and struck him, officials said.

The dead man was identified as 48-year-old Gil Tae Kim of Rancho Cucamonga, California Highway Patrol Officer Edmund Zorrilla said.

The incident, which triggered a three-car crash, was reported just before 11 a.m. on the 605 Freeway near Ramona Boulevard, Zorrilla said.

A Long Beach man was driving a 2006 Ford F-350 pickup truck towing a trailer northbound on the freeway approaching Ramona Boulevard when a tire came loose, said Zorrilla.

Sheriff's plan driving checkpoint


       28.  Mountain Democrat (Placerville, CA) - September 12, 2000

Trailer hits motorcyclist   
     COLOMA A runaway trailer got the better of apassing motorcyclist on Highway 49 Saturday, according to California HighwayPatrol officers. Anthony Michael Steneck, a 39-year-old Placervilleresident, was flown to Sutter Roseville Medical Center with road rash andmultiple open fractures to his left leg after a trailer broke loose from itstruck and ran into his 1983 Yamaha motorcycle.Officers said 50-year-oldDavid A. Chandler of Placerville was driving southbound on Highway 49,...



       29.  Siskiyou Daily News (Yreka, CA) - July 27, 2010

Two injured in I-5 accident   
     An accident on Thursday left two people injured after a trailer they were pulling suddenly came loose of their car, according to a California Highway Patrol press release.At approximately 2:35 p.m., Kathy Steele of Auburn, Wash., was driving her 2004 Dodge Durango southbound on Interstate 5 south of the North Mount Shasta Boulevard overcross with her husband Rick in the passenger seat and a 2001 Komfort travel trailer towing behind them, according to the release.Kathy was driving...


       30.  Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - June 22, 1990

LOOSE TRAILER HURTS OFFICER IN GLENDALE   
     A California Highway Patrol officer was slightly injured Thursday when a trailer broke free from a truck and crashed into her patrol car on the shoulder of the Foothill Freeway, authorities said.Officer Margaret Kibbett, 34, was treated at Huntington Memorial Hospital for bruises and released, authorities said.Truck driver Donald Lynn Bochat, 37, of Visalia, was arrested for investigation of felony hit-and-run driving because authorities said he did not stop at the scene of the...


       31.  Ventura County Star (CA) - December 30, 2006

Local   
     Two portable toilets were destroyed Friday when an tractor-trailer collided with a loose flatbed trailer on Highway 126 near Fillmore, the California Highway Patrol reported.The accident occurred at about 10:50 a.m. when a pickup pulling the port-a-potties on a flatbed trailer crossed the Fillmore railroad crossing heading east.The trailer disconnected and a tractor-trailer, which was heading west, struck it."It obliterated the port-a-potties,"...

       32.  San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - August 19, 2005

NAPA Socialite likely using seat belt, CHP says   
     A well known San Francisco society maven and philanthropist who was killed when a trailer broke loose from a truck bed and slammed head-on into her car was, in all likelihood, wearing a seat belt when she was ejected from the vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol. Erika Hills, 61, whose husband is from the family that started Hills Brothers coffee, was killed instantly in the crash, which occurred at 11:24 a. m. Wednesday on the Silverado Trail, a half-mile..

       33.  The Orange County Register - August 14, 2003

Suspect surrenders in freeway death   
     SANTA ANA A man suspected of fleeing a fatal accident after his boat trailer broke loose on a freeway turned himself in to the California Highway Patrol on Tuesday night, officials said. Officials said Joseph Kennedy, 41, was driving a U-Haul truck Monday morning when the trailer, carrying a 22-foot sailboat, became disengaged. The trailer rolled across lanes on the northbound Costa Mesa (55) Freeway and struck a motorcyclist, killing him. Witnesses said...

       34.  Chico Enterprise-Record (Chico, CA) - April 21, 2005

Police seek man who left boat in road   
     An unidentified driver who lost perhaps intentionally the boat and trailer he was towing on Cohasset Road Wednesday morning is being sought by police for leaving the scene of an accident.Witnesses said the man was driving south on Cohasset near Lupin Avenue in a white Ford F-150 pickup when the trailer came loose and the boat went hurtling into the intersection.Minor damage was done to a traffic signal standard when the boat struck it.The wreckage blocked the intersection...

       35.  Press-Enterprise, The (Riverside, CA) - May 10, 2003

Drywall spill blocks Highway 91 traffic   
     CORONA Traffic was blocked on Highway 91 for more than an hour Friday after a trailer full of drywall spilled onto the freeway, the California Highway Patrol said. The trailer became loose and spilled the drywall around 10:30 a.m. on eastbound Highway 91 near northbound Interstate 15, said CHP Officer Jim Whitney. No one was injured and all lanes were closed except for the right shoulder, he said. The highway reopened after 11:30 a.m.,...


       36.  Redding Record Searchlight (CA) - September 17, 1993

WEED PHARMACIST DIES IN CRASH   
     YREKA - A Weed pharmacist was killed instantly near the Oregon border Thursday after a flatbed trailer broke loose from the van pulling it and hit his vehicle.Peter F. Patella, 58, died in the 10:12 a.m. accident on Interstate 5 near Hilt, north of Yreka.Patella, the longtime pharmacist and owner of Center Pharmacy in Weed, was driving north when the tongue of the trailer came through the front of his Blazer, killing him instantly, California Highway Patrol dispatcher Marie Grigg...


       37.  Mountain Democrat (Placerville, CA) - July 2, 2004

SHINGLE SPRINGS —An innertube that flew off a family’s boat trailer this weekend put a motorcyclist in the hospital, according to California Highway Patrol spokesman Craig Beckley. Anthony Dominic Garrido, 33, ended up at Marshall Hospital after his motorcycle collided with an innertube while he was westbound on Highway 50 Saturday. The innertube came loose from Max Wimmer’s Toyota Sequoia, which was traveling in the fast lane west   
     SHINGLE SPRINGS —An innertube that flew off a family’s boat trailer this weekend put a motorcyclist in the hospital, according to California Highway Patrol spokesman Craig Beckley. Anthony Dominic Garrido, 33, ended up at Marshall Hospital after his motorcycle collided with an innertube while he was westbound on Highway 50 Saturday. The innertube came loose from Max Wimmer’s Toyota Sequoia, which was traveling in the fast lane west...
 
       38.  Chico Enterprise-Record (Chico, CA) - August 15, 2004

Trailer busts loose from hauling truck on the Skyway   
     A trailer with a backhoe chained to it broke free of a large hauling truck heading westbound on the Skyway and ended up on the sidewalk just east of Bruce Road on Saturday around 9:15 a.m.The driver, who identified himself to the E-R only as Tim, said he was delivering the backhoe to Forest Ranch on behalf of Bigelow and Associates. He could only shake his head and watch Chico Fire Department's efforts to clean up debris spewed onto the road by the incident...

       39.  San Jose Mercury News (CA) - August 2, 1986

HIGHWAY 17 IS CLOSED BY TRUCK ACCIDENT   
     An overturned truck trailer brought the slow-moving southbound traffic on Highway 17 to a complete halt Friday evening.Traffic heading toward Santa Cruz County backed up for 10 miles from the summit to Camden Avenue in Campbell after a trailer broke loose from the truck and flipped over near Redwood Estates at 5:30 p.m., said a California Highway Patrol spokesman.No one was injured, but traffic was reduced to one lane. Because of the bumper-to-bumper traffic, large tow trucks had...

       40. San Jose Mercury News (CA) - December 13, 1997

VICTIM IN SAN BRUNO ACCIDENT IDENTIFIED   
     The woman killed in Thursday's fatal accident on El Camino Real in San Bruno was identified by the coroner's office as 36-year-old Elaine Harkins.San Bruno police said Friday that investigators are still looking into the accident in which a truck's utility trailer broke loose, jumped a curb and struck the windshield of Harkins'truck, killing her almost instantly.San Bruno police report that Harkins'truck went out of...

       41.  Fresno Bee, The (CA) - July 26, 2000

TWO ACCIDENTS SNARL TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAY 99   
     Two multi-vehicle crashes just a few miles apart snarled traffic on southbound Highway 99 Tuesday afternoon. No one was seriously injured in either crash.The first accident happened about 5 p.m. just south of Jensen Avenue when a trailer came loose from a pickup and overturned.Another pickup and a car crashed into the trailer, with the wreckage blocking the middle and slow lanes, California Highway Patrol officer Debbie Ramirez said.Officers cleared the middle lane about...


       42.  San Jose Mercury News (CA) - May 7, 1991

RUNAWAY TRAILER KILLS MOTORIST ON I-580   
     A 22-year-old Hayward man was killed Monday when a trailer broke loose from a pickup truck traveling west on Interstate 580 in Castro Valley and rammed into his car. Shoaban Joshan was pronounced dead at Eden Hospital Medical Center in Castro Valley, the California Highway Patrol said. Burton Quigley, 59, of Tracy was traveling west on I-580 about 9:15 a.m. when the trailer broke loose from his pickup and drifted into the eastbound lanes, where it struck a Plymouth Sundance then the...

       43.  Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - November 25, 1989

SIMI VALLEY: BRIEFLY,  TRAILER BREAKS FREE ON FREEWAY 2 DIE   
     At least two people were killed and two others injured when a trailer broke loose from a westbound pickup truck on the 118 Freeway. The roadway was closed in both directions for more than an hour Friday, police said.The trailer broke loose from the truck about 3:45 p.m. near Erringer Road, crossed into the eastbound lanes, forcing one car off the roadway and striking a Cadillac Eldorado that burst into flames, said Lt. Bob Robbins of the Simi Valley Police Department.The driver of...

       44. Chico Enterprise-Record (Chico, CA) - December 19, 2008

Cows fall out of trailer; truck goes off freeway   
     CHICO —At least four cows that fell out of a livestock trailer on northbound Highway 99 near First Avenue in central Chico about 1 p.m. Thursday were still missing several hours later.The California Highway Patrol believes the owner of the cattle exited 99 and got back on going southbound to look for the animals.As the truck and trailer slowed near the median, traffic began to back up.The driver of a Waste Management trash truck failed to see the slowing...

       45.  Red Bluff Daily News (CA) - July 3, 2006

Runaway trailer crashes   
     An empty trailer that broke loose from a truck crashed into a hotel room at the Cinderella Motel on Rio Street about 3:18 p.m. Saturday, according to the Red Bluff Fire Department.No injuries were reported. No further information was available Sunday.Daily News photo by Rebecca Wolf --------- Assistant News Editor Rebecca Wolf can be reached at 527-2153, extension 110. or at clerk@redbluffdailynews.com ...

       46.  Press Democrat, The (Santa Rosa, CA) - June 13, 1995

TRAILER CRASH SHUTS RIVER ROAD FOR 1 HOUR   
     River Road was closed for an hour near Hacienda Bridge Monday afternoon while road crews picked up hundreds of objects belonging to 36-year-old Michael O'Connell, whose trailer broke loose and crashed while he was in the process of moving from Guerneville to Cooperopolis, according to the California Highway Patrol.O'Connell and a 17-year-old girl were driving east on River Road when his unsecured trailer hitch broke, disengaging a 20-foot moving trailer from....

       47.  San Jose Mercury News (CA) - July 30, 1988

CRASHES JAM I-580 TRAFFIC   
     A 20-mile traffic jam that lasted more than six hours followed a series of accidents on eastbound Interstate 580 near Livermore on Friday afternoon.Traffic in all four eastbound lanes halted at 1:35 p.m. when a four-wheel-drive vehicle traveling at an estimated 70 mph went out of control near North Flynn Road, said a California Highway Patrol spokeswoman. The vehicle broke loose from the boat and trailer it was towing, rolling over three or four times.Four occupants were...

       48.  Merced Sun-Star, The (CA) - November 29, 2005

Wayward trailer causes four car accident   
     A utilty trailer from a landscaping truck was suspected to be the cataylst in a chain-reaction collision that caused four cars to rear end one another on Monday afternoon in Merced. A little after school let out at Merced High School, the blue SUV of Mary Ellen Riggs, seated, was hit first by the trailer, which somehow got loose from the truck pulling it. Her SUV was pushed into another van which subsequently made that third car hit another as they were all stopped in the left hand turn lane..

       49.  Press-Enterprise, The (Riverside, CA) - March 23, 1994

Horse injured, but survives accident on Highway 91   
     A horse was injured in a traffic accident yesterday at 9:40 a.m. on the westbound lanes of Highway 91 near Corona.California Highway Patrol officer Brian Capelle reported that the accident happened this way: Bell Gardens resident Teodoro Jimenez, 39, was driving a pickup that was pulling a two-axle horse trailer. He drove into the freeway at Pierce Street and was driving in the number three lane at about 50 mph when the coupling on the trailer came loose from the hitch and the...


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