by The Editors on January 11, 2009
San Diego 6 kicked down some vague details from a crash early this morning (January 11, 2009):
A motorist whose car rolled over and caught fire on Interstate 5 early Sunday suffered major injuries and was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said.
It all went down around 2 AM near Tamarack. The “motorist” who was in the burning car when emergency crews arrive, was reportedly transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital.
[Link: San Diego 6]
by The Editors on December 24, 2008
Santiago Piovillasenor Aganzaman, 23, of Carlsbad was riding a bike when he was hit and killed by a southbound Sprinter Train in Oceanside at 5:05 PM on December 23, 2008, according to a story on San Diego 6.
The collision occurred at the Wisconsin Avenue grade crossing in Oceanside at 5:05 p.m., according to Cpl. Mark Cook of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department. . . The man . . . tried to ride his bicycle across the grade crossing as the warning system was just beginning to operate.
According to the train’s engineer, Aganzaman didn’t appear to see the train coming.
[Link: San Diego 6]
by The Editors on December 17, 2008
Yesterday evening at about 5:20 PM a male pedestrian was hit and killed while walking on El Camino Real near Cannon Road by a 19-year-old Carlsbad man, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
A Carlsbad police officer noticed cars ahead of him swerving to miss the man, who was lying in the road. Police said the officer administered CPR until paramedics arrived and pronounced the man dead. . . .Rawson said police are looking for witnesses who may have seen the crash. He said it doesn’t appear speed or alcohol use by the driver were factors. Anyone who saw the crash was asked to call Carlsbad police at (760) 931-2100.
The name of the deceased has not been released by police.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on December 1, 2008
Ilija Petrovich, 51, of Carlsbad died Sunday after the motorcycle he and his wife were riding hit a “stopped pickup” near Palomar Mountain, according to a story on 10news.com.
Ilija Petrovich and his wife were riding a Harley-Davidson when the crash occurred on Highway 76 at Church Road around 12:25 p.m. Saturday, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. Both were thrown from the motorcycle. . . Petrovich struck several mailboxes before landing in a ditch and suffered massive head injuries, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office.
Petrovich was declared “brain dead” on Sunday afternoon. His wife reportedly “suffered back and shoulder injuries.”
[Link: 10news.com]
by The Editors on October 22, 2008
Eddie Maldonado took a wrong turn in his Honda Accord around 9 PM on Monday night and ended up stuck on the railroad tracks at Grand Ave. in the Village just before a train was approaching, according to a story in the North County Times.
Shortly after 9 p.m., a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train hit a Honda Civic stuck on the tracks at Grand Avenue, said Cpl. Mark Cook of the sheriff’s rail enforcement team. . . .Carlsbad police officials identified the driver as Eddie Maldonado. They did not have his age or city of residence available.
Maldonado was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving and if that (coupled with having his car hit by a train) wasn’t enough he was also charged with trespassing for driving onto the tracks. The wreck kept both Grand Ave. and Carlsbad Village Drive closed for nearly two hours.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on October 11, 2008
Thesa Graves, 19, of Carlsbad was killed and three others were injured after she ran a red light and “collided with a newspaper delivery truck” at around 10 PM Friday October 10, 2008 at the corner of Carlsbad Village Drive and El Camino Real, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The teen was taken to a hospital, where she later died. Three passengers were hospitalized with unknown injuries. . . . Firefighters had to use rescue equipment to free the four occupants of the Toyota Corolla from the wreckage.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on October 10, 2008
A 16-year-old skateboarder who was towing along beside his friend’s car on Garfield was run over and injured today at approximately 5:45 pm. Carlsbad Fire and Police responded to the accident and closed Garfield in both directions from Sycamore to Walnut.
“He was hanging on to the side a friends car and was just about to let go when he fell,” said one witness.
The boy was conscious and appeared to be speaking with the ambulance crew while he was being loaded on to the backboard.
Another bystander reported that he had a serious gash on the back of his head, but didn’t seem to have any other major injuries. “He is okay, he is okay,” she kept saying into her cellphone.
by The Editors on September 29, 2008
A small single-engine plane has crashed into a small hillside at 7:19 a.m. yesterday September 28, 2008 a mile from the McClellan-Palomar airport killing pilot Guisseppe “Pino” Puzzo, 41, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
He crashed after canceling an attempted landing in the morning fog and advising air traffic controllers that he planned to circle the airport and try again, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said.
Though this is the second crash in one week Federal Aviation officials says the crash had “nothing to do with the airport.” This brings total plane crash deaths in and around the Carlsbad airport to 10 in the last two years.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on September 23, 2008
The Crossings at Carlsbad golf course claimed another plane yesterday September 22, 2008, at about 4:45 PM as a Cesna 152 single engine plane crashed into a ravine near the 16th hole, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Triubune.
Golfers witnessed it and ran to their aid, carried them out of the plane,” Carlsbad Battalion Chief Jim Torretto said. . . . The pilot, 22, and passenger, 19, had flown from Long Beach in the Cessna owned by Rainbow Air Academy. . . The men, whom he described as alert but confused, were carried out of the ravine by firefighters. A helicopter landed on a dirt lot and took the men to a hospital. They had suffered fractures and cuts.
In the past two years nine people have died in crashes after landing or taking off at McClellan-Palomar.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on September 20, 2008
This morning news that former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein had survived a South Carolina Learjet crash in which four others had died had the world wondering who else was on the plane.
Now, sadly, the story has come home to Carlsbadistan. Carlsbad resident James Bland, 52, a co-pilot on the Global Exec Aviation jet, was one of the four people who died in the fiery crash, according to a story in the LA Times.
A family man, Bland shared his Carlsbad home with his wife Anne, 46, and 16-year-old daughter, Erin. The eldest of three children, he assumed a patriarchal role after his father died at 59. “He was like a father to me,” Laura said. “If there was ever an emergency in the family, he always was the first to try to fix it. . . Relatives of pilot James Bland, 52, gathered today at the home of his younger sister, Laura Bland, in Redondo Beach. “He always said this could happen,” Laura Bland said in a phone interview. “He lost a couple of friends in different accidents, but of anybody we knew, he was just so conscientious that we didn’t expect this at all.”
Our thoughts are with the Bland family and friends during this time of sadness.
[Link: Los Angeles Times]
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