A truck driver — and his rig — got tipsy en route to Santa Cruz, but the driver says it wasn’t because he’d been drinking.
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Highway 99 at Garden Highway reopens after fatal crash
Witnesses say the driver of a car stopped and looked both ways before pulling into the path of a northbound big rig on Highway 99 at Garden Highway Tuesday afternoon.
Sacto 9-1-1: Sacramento sheriff: Grandson used grandparents’ car for crime, chase
Call it the case of the Bad Grandson. Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies report that a man allegedly used his grandparents’ car to commit a crime and then lead cops on a chase where he hit another driver, according to a crime summary released this week.
Police: Dark colored SUV sought in deadly hit and run
Sacramento Police officers are looking for the driver of a dark colored SUV that may have been involved in a deadly hit and run incident Saturday night.
Crash kills woman, 26, on Interstate 80 in the Sierra
A 26-year-old woman was killed this morning in a crash on Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevada.
Sacto 9-1-1: Samaritan seriously injured in hit-and-run
California Highway Patrol investigators are looking for tips after a hit-and-run driver seriously injured a Samaritan trying to help at an accident scene at the Interstate 5 to Interstate 80 interchange. Daniel Zipay, 28, of Folsom was struck by a vehicle while trying to put out reflective warning triangles at the scene of an earlier accident.
Sacto 9-1-1: Big rig found emptying oil into Woodland storm drain
Officials worked late Thursday to clean up oil apparently emptied from a big rig into a Woodland storm drain. A Woodland resident noticed a a hose coming from the engine compartment of a big rig at Hays Lane and Douglas Lane about 2 p.m., police said. The hose went from the rig to a storm drain
2 Galt Officers Honored For Saving Teen’s Life
A car bursts into flames, and two Galt police officers pull the driver out just seconds before the violent explosion. Now, that victim is recovering, and those two officers are credited with saving her life.
Sacto 9-1-1: Roseville man sentenced for SUV theft, high-speed chase
A Roseville man has been sent to state prison for stealing a vehicle and running from officers. Keith G. Logan, 40, after pleading no contest May 28, was sentenced June 4 in Placer County Superior Court
