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The California Highway Patrol says L.A. Fire Department recruit Jacob Fuerte was outside his Jeep after colliding with a sedan when he was struck and killed in a multicar crash.
Eight people were killed and one person was injured Friday after a pickup collided with a minivan carrying farmworkers to their job, the California Highway Patrol said.
One person died from a head-on collision that occurred Wednesday night on Highway 168 just east of Clovis, according to California Highway Patrol. It happened around 10:30 p.m., about a 1/2 mile ...
Standard traffic enforcement patrol vehicles are required by state law to have a white door with, in the case of the CHP, a star. The CHP operates traditional black and white as well as all-white patrol vehicles. The California Highway Patrol is one of the few organizations to continue to use the older toll-free "Zenith 1-2000" number.
High winds and blowing dust were reported throughout central California on November 29, 1991, both in the San Joaquin Valley and the Salinas Valley.A weather station at Naval Air Station Lemoore, the closest one to the crash site which tracked wind and visibility statistics, measured wind gusts up to 21.6 metres per second (48 mph; 78 km/h) and visibility as low as 0.5 kilometers (0.31 mi).
All lanes of Interstate 15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas that were closed for 48 hours due to a big rig accident that created a chemical hazard have reopened, the California Highway Patrol said.
The term was originally the name of a pioneering system of automated radio broadcasts regarding traffic conditions, introduced in the 1950s and named after its inventor, Loyd Sigmon. A Sigalert is defined by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) as "any unplanned event that causes the closing of one lane of traffic for 30 minutes or more".
Fire truck swerved to avoid ladder on freeway, reports say. California Highway Patrol investigators told KCAL that the fire utility truck swerved to avoid a ladder on the freeway just north of ...