by The Editors on September 9, 2008
This afternoon a man in his “30s or 40s” apparently tried to throw himself under a Coaster train at the Carlsbad Village Station at approximately 3:40 PM on September 9, 2008, according to a story on Sign On San Diego.
It was an attempted suicide, it appears from witness accounts,” said Carlsbad Police Cpl. Rob Shelton. . . .“He contorted his body and he threw himself at the train,” said Chris Wood, who was standing on the platform about 100 feet away.
Firefighters were able to get him out from under the train and transport him to Scripps Memorial Hospital. This is the same location where Jeffrey Samora, 24, killed himself by jumping in front of an Amtrak train on Monday April 21, 2008.
[Link: Sign On San Diego]
by The Editors on September 5, 2008
Cleanup crews were still working on the shoulder of the north-bound lanes of Interstate 5 just north of La Costa Avenue this evening after a dump truck loaded with asphalt careened off the road this morning at 1 AM dropping 19 tons of asphalt onto the south bank of the Batiquitos Lagoon, according to a post on Sign On San Diego.
The spill had traffic backed up this morning all the way down to 5/805 split.
Robin Lewis, a California Department of Fish and Game scientist who specializes in spills, said crews dug as much of the hardened asphalt as they could from lagoon shore until the tide came up about 1 p.m. . . . “Right now it’s all under water,” Lewis said in mid-afternoon. He said the cleanup will resume about 7 p.m. and continue until the tide comes up again about midnight, but he hopes to finish the job this weekend.
[Link: Sign On San Diego]
by The Editors on September 3, 2008
This evening at approximately 10 PM a vehicle plowed through the guard rail on the seawall at Carlsbad Boulevard and Chestnut ripping out approximately 50 feet of railing. Luckily, no pedestrians appear to have been hurt. The car was hauled away by a tow-truck. By 11 PM crews were out cleaning up the mess enough for people to walk and drive by.
by The Editors on July 18, 2008
At about 7:10 this evening Carlsbad Fire and CHPs responded to a car fire on the southbound center lane of Interstate 5 at the Chestnut overpass that sent huge clouds of black smoke into the skies over the heart of Carlsbadistan.
An older model Chevrolet Tahoe completely burned out before fire crews could get to the scene. Witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion during the fire, however, there appeared to be no injuries. Fire retardant flowed across all lanes of the freeway and slowed southbound traffic considerably, but by 7:55 traffic was back up to 57 mph.
by The Editors on July 6, 2008
Family members, including the McFarland children’s “paternal grandmother from Sacramento, their maternal grandparents and several of their mother’s sisters” traveled to Salt Lake City to get the children of Stephanie and Tod McFarland, the Carlsbad couple who died in an automobile accident early Thursday July 3, 2008.
They’ve asked for Mommy and Daddy,” said Shirley Rehder, the children’s great-aunt. “The little one wanted his daddy to tuck him in last night.
Tod McFarland was the lead physical therapist at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla and Stephanie was a stay-at-home mom.
“They were the most beautiful people,” Rehder said. “I told Tod and Stephanie that if ever there was a family that needed to be modeled, it was theirs.”
Family members have not yet decided who the recently orphaned children will live with, but they have decided that they will keep them together. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families during this time of tragedy.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on July 3, 2008
Stephanie McFarland, 38, of Carlsbad, may have fallen “asleep at the wheel or lost control” of the family’s 200 Ford Expedition Thursday morning while traveling to a wedding, according to a story in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
The family of five was driving eastbound on Interstate 70, near Sigurd and exit 48 in Sevier County, at 6:45 a.m. Roden said the family was traveling in the fast lane when the vehicle veered off the road into the median and hit a reflector pole.
Stephanie and her husband Tod McFarland, 40, were both killed in the accident. Their “5-year-old son was taken to Sevier Valley Hospital in critical condition and later transferred to a Salt Lake-area hospital.” The other two children (a 2-year-old boy, and five-year-old girl) “escaped with non-life-threatening injuries.”
[Link: Salt Lake City Tribune]
by The Editors on June 26, 2008
This evening (June 26, 2008) at approximately 5:12 pm, traffic on the 4900 block of El Camino Real slowed down in both North and South lanes after two silver Toyotas collided in front of Bobby’s Hideaway Cafe.
The driver of the Carolla, a woman in her 20s, was unhurt, however, the driver of the Matrix, a woman who appeared to be in her late 60s was a bit shaken by the crash and was “pretty shaken up by her airbags” according to one witness.
Carlsbad Fire, Paremedic, and Police units responded within minutes.
by The Editors on May 9, 2008
According to a story in Aviation Week , the Cessna CE-510 that “ground looped” McClelland-Palomar Airport on April 19, 2008 was as a result of landing too fast, too far down the runway. Apparently the pilot. . .
. . . crossed the runway threshold 15 knots fast and landed close to the middle of Runway 24, according to a preliminary NTSB interview with the pilot.
Once the pilot realized he couldn’t stop the aircraft on the remaining runway, he intentionally ground looped the aircraft to stop it before it ran off the west end and down a steep ravine. . . . During the flight, the right PFD began to flicker and the autopilot disengaged.
The pilot reported that he was “fatigued by the workload associated with coping with the system” and he banged up California Natural Products plane.
[Link: Aviation Week]
by The Editors on May 1, 2008
A two-year-old Carlsbad boy is dead after being accidentally run over by a neighbor who was backing out of her driveway.
Derek Siaosi, 2, was struck on Lemon Leaf Drive at Phoebe Place around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, said Carlsbad police Sgt. Chris Boyd. The boy was flown to Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, where he was pronounced dead.
Our thoughts and prayers are with both families.
[Link: Fox6.com]
by The Editors on April 23, 2008
At approximately 3:05 PM today (April 23, 2008) a woman in her mid to late-20s was hit by a car while crossing the street in front of the Vons Supermarket in the parking lot of the Vons shopping center at the corner of Aviara Parkway and El Camino Real.
According to a witness, a woman driving a green Nissan Pathfinder turned the corner in the Vons parking lot and struck the pedestrian before even seeing her.
“She just came around the corner and hit her,” said the witness. “She didn’t even see her until after she had knocked her to the ground.
The woman was placed on a backboard and transported via Carlsbad Fire Department ambulance. The Carlsbad Police responded as well. We’ll have more as information becomes available.
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