Now crash fraudsters target Scots drivers
Motorists are warned gangs are out to cause collisions, writes Teresa Hunter
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After Texas Motor Speedway crash, wife of injured driver waits
BEN TORRES/Special to DMNBelinda Vandenberg fell in love with a racer and has loved him through one crash already. Now, she sits every day in a hospital room and waits for her husband to wake from a coma.
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Crash victim’s family files suit against city, LAPD alleging police car was speeding at time of collision
The family of a Santa Monica woman who was killed after a collision with a police car in Venice in October are seeking to hold police accountable for their actions prior to the fatal crash in a lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department and City of Los Angeles.
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Griffith Park Helicopter Accident Experienced Flexure Loss
http://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/aviation2/helicopter.php
This animation shows the cross-sections of the tail rotor yoke. The cross-sections are of reduced thickness to allow for flexure (bending). The yoke is designed to bend within fixed parameters without losing its strength. If a force strikes the tail rotor large enough to bend it beyond its design tolerance, it may result in “static overload” damage, which creates a loss of residual compressive stress and a resulting fatigue fracture. Static overloads occur when the tail rotor is stationary, not when a helicopter is in flight. Static overload can be caused by improper ground handling (such as using the tail rotor blade as a handhold to move the helicopter), collision with a vehicle, improper bearing removal while the yoke is off the helicopter, and wind gust or jet blast. The animation shows the flexure of the yoke 1) within its design tolerance; and 2) outside of its design tolerance.
Baum Hedlund had this animation prepared as one of several to be shown as evidence during the 2006 product liability trial at Los Angeles Superior Court against Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., and Bell Technical Services, Inc. The trial was conducted by Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman.
History: A Bell Model 205A-1 helicopter, owned and operated by the LAFD crashed in Griffith Park during an airlift rescue operation in Los Angeles on March 23, 1998. The helicopter was airlifting an injured child from a car accident when the helicopter’s tail rotor yoke failed and caused the aircraft to crash, destroying the helicopter and killing the child, two LAFD paramedics and an LAFD helicopter apparatus operator.
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A new, and larger traffic accident from the LA Mod made by Hoppah, version 1.9.
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Two carjacking suspects were in custody Wednesday after the vehicle in which they were fleeing from deputies crashed into a pickup truck in South Los Angeles, killing the man who was driving it, authorities said.
Paramedics sent to Century Boulevard west of Vermont Avenue shortly before 7 a.m. pronounced a man dead at the scene, d’Lisa Davies of the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Miguel Castro Falcon, 46, of Los Angeles, died in the accident, said Capt. Ed Winter of the coroner’s office.
The vehicle, a Toyota Camry, that crashed into the truck had been carjacked at gunpoint shortly before 5 a.m., Deputy Johnie Jones of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau said.
Deputies saw it about 7 a.m. and started chasing it, but backed off when they were told it was just a stolen vehicle, Jones said. It then crashed into the pickup truck.
The passenger in the Camry was arrested at the scene after getting into one of several other vehicles that were involved in the collision and trying to pass himself off as a victim, deputies said.
The driver fled but was caught about 90 minutes later, Jones said.
Both suspects were 16 years old, Los Angeles police said.
“I felt that they left him in the car too long,” Charles Rhodes, who said Falcon’s sons were in his karate class. “He (sat) there and suffered for about 10 minutes before he died. And that’s unfortunate, that a police pursuit went bad.”
The watch commander called off the chase “figuring that … the suspect would slow down and nobody would get injured from the incident.”
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