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While proceeding southbound on a coastal road in central California, a USPS postal vehicle collided with a passenger car heading in the opposite direction. The late-morning accident sent the postal driver as well as two occupants of the northbound vehicle to the hospital with major injuries. The postal driver suffered a serious head wound, and rather than summoning an ambulance, the California Highway Patrol contacted a regional hospital to request a helicopter airlift. This is...

A 36-year-old Dublin woman was killed in a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate Highway 580 in Livermore on Dec. 10. The crash occurred just after 3 p.m. just east of Vasco Road. A representative with the California Highway Patrol said the woman died after the 2003 Jeep Cherokee she was riding in was rear-ended by a 2012 Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by a 45-year-old man. The force of the impact overturned the Jeep, causing it...

On Nov. 14, a California man was killed while attempting to pass a semi-truck on a two-lane highway, authorities reported. A total of five vehicles were involved in the fatal car accident that took place along Highway 79 near Temecula. The 67-year-old San Diego man who was killed was pronounced dead at the scene while the six other people involved suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The car accident happened at around 5:30 a.m. while conditions were dark...

The California Highway Patrol reported that a 24-year-old man was killed in a crash on Interstate 80 in Roseville in the morning hours of Nov. 1. Another man sustained injuries in the crash. Both individuals were passengers in a vehicle when the driver reportedly collided with a tree while trying to avoid a car that had stalled in the road. The driver was employed by a ridesharing service. Ridesharing services are typically private enterprises that...

Authorities say that a distracted driver hit two high school students on Weedpatch Highway and Eucalyptus Drive in Bakersfield around 6:40 a.m. on Oct. 16. A 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl were both taken to Kern Medical Center. The 17-year-old girl was said to be in critical condition with a lacerated kidney, and one of the girls was in a coma. Police say that the 26-year-old woman who hit the girls was looking at...