Antelope Teen Killed Trying To Flag Down Truck On I-80
Authorities say an 18-year-old California woman was hit and killed near Lovelock, Nev. while trying to flag down a pickup truck for help.
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Authorities say an 18-year-old California woman was hit and killed near Lovelock, Nev. while trying to flag down a pickup truck for help.
A California Highway Patrolman stopped the rental box truck for failure to stay in one lane while headed east on I-80 west of Reno about 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
Police say speed was a factor in a fatal car accident on Monday night. The crash happened on Auburn Blvd near Norris Avenue and the Interstate 80 off-ramp just before 11 p.m.
Victims of Tuesday's residential fire in Fairfield are hoping to get answers from officials two days after the disaster.
If you didn't know any better, you would think these flames were eating up homes in a forest community. But this large fire tore down a city street in the middle of the afternoon.
Some homeowners in Fairfield are waking up to charred ruins after a grass fire engulfed a neighborhood Tuesday.
There were flames leaping a tree in a backyard, forcing dozens to evacuate, as more than 200 firefighters from several different counties rushed to Marigold Drive to stop the blaze.
A five-alarm fire is burning near Interstate 80 in Fairfield, sending smoke into the afternoon commute.
A sinkhole in the center divide of Interstate 80 has led to the partial closure of the freeway in the Sierra.
Severe weather did roll through the area earlier in the afternoon, but the spooky looking clouds were harmless. They got their unusual look and tint from smoke, some of which had traveled all the way from the Rim Fire near Yosemite.
Two people are in the hospital with serious injuries after a motorcycle accident in Sacramento.
Arson investigators are searching through dry grass and berry bushes trying to determine who started a brush fire near Business 80 in Sacramento overnight.
A big rig fire created a slick mess on Interstate 80 east of Auburn on Tuesday.
A pedestrian is dead after being struck by several vehicles while attempting to cross Interstate 80 Thursday morning.
Interstate 80 is partially closed in both directions in Sierra County due to a rock slide, according to Caltrans reports.
An Interstate 80 crash has closed all east bound lanes near Vacaville.
A man fell to his death Saturday while trying to remove graffiti over Interstate 80, Sacramento police say.
While the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will open to traffic in September, the work needed to take down the old roadway is expected to take years.
Traffic on I-80 is slowing in both directions at Highway 37/Columbus Parkway after a big rig drove off the freeway Thursday.
Travelers had to endure hours in slow-moving traffic to get home after the holiday, or to get up the mountain to go skiing.
A driver who lost control of his car, which fell about 25 feet off of a freeway overpass and onto its roof on interstate Highway 80 in Pinole early Monday morning has been arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence, a police sergeant said.
A huge pothole along a busy Sacramento interstate is wreaking havoc on tires. At least four drivers have suffered blowouts in the last week - and all this while Caltrans is just feet away.
Traffic is backed up in the Fairfield area on Interstate 80 after a big rig crash on Thursday afternoon.
A CHP motorcycle officer hurt in a crash on Interstate 80 near Greenback Tuesday morning has major injuries but is expected to recover, according to the California Highway Patrol.
All lanes are now open on Interstate 80 after a rollover crash that sent nails flying over the roadway, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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