Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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Firefighters put out a motorcycle fire in Fallbrook Monday afternoon. The California Highway Patrol received a report of a motorcycle “down and on fire” at 2:28 p.m. near the intersection of Stage Coach Lane and Brooke Road. Crews responded quickly to the fire and prevented it from spreading to nearby vegetation, North County Fire Protection District spokesman John Choi said. There were no reports of injuries, Choi said....
ESCONDIDO - A woman driving a stolen sedan led officers on Friday, Aug. 30 on a high-speed freeway chase that ended when she lost control of the car, which rolled over and crashed, leaving her hospitalized with serious injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP Officer Kevin Smale said a motorcycle police officer saw an older-model Toyota Corolla traveling at a high rate of speed and swerving in and out of traffic on northbound Interstate 15 near Mission Road in Fallbrook at 12:08 p.m. When the driver failed...
FALLBROOK - According to a report by the California Highway Patrol on Friday, Sept. 13, four vehicles were involved in an accident that was reported at 6:25 p.m. near Reche Road and Stage Coach Lane. According to reports from the scene, two individuals in a gray Honda were reported injured. No further information was available....
BONSALL - An SUV driver was taken to the hospital on Saturday, Sept. 14 after crashing into a telephone pole on a road near Bonsall, the California Highway Patrol said. The accident happened at about 7 a.m. on Olive Hill Road near Shamrock Road, according to a CHP incident report. The driver of a gray Nissan Pathfinder hit the telephone pole and a gray Fiat. The Nissan driver was taken to Tri City Hospital Oceanside with unknown injuries. San Diego Gas & Electric and AT&T officials were responding to the scene to evaluate...
FALLBROOK - According to multiple reports, a motorcycle collided head-on with a school bus around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29 near Fallbrook High School at the intersection of South Stage Coach and Reche roads. The California Highway Patrol closed the intersection to traffic until 3:58 p.m. According to witness reports to the CHP, children were on the bus at the time of the collision. There was no word whether anyone on the bus was injured. Reports from the scene indicated that the driver of the motorcycle was receiving...
FALLBROOK - A motorcyclist was struck from behind and killed by a suspected drunk driver on the Interstate 15 freeway in Fallbrook, authorities said. It happened around 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17 on northbound I-15, south of Mission Road, California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Smale said. The unidentified motorcyclist was riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle northbound when a 24-year-old man from Menifee driving a Hyundai Sonata sedan approached him from behind at a faster speed, Smale said. The Hyundai driver struck the...
VALLEY CENTER - Authorities today publicly identified a 42-year-old man who was killed when he crashed head-on into a pickup truck hauling a trailer in Valley Center. Jesus Amavisca Gamboa of Fallbrook was riding his 2009 Kawasaki Ninja 250 eastbound on Valley Center Road around 4:25 p.m. Sunday when, for unknown reasons, he crossed over into the westbound lane near Round Tree Road and collided with a 2016 GMC pickup towing a horse trailer, according to information from the California Highway Patrol and the San Diego County...
FALLBROOK - Firefighters rescued a 31-year-old man from his crumpled and burning van on Thursday, July 25 after the motorist slammed into the back of a semi-truck on Interstate 15 in Fallbrook, authorities said. The crash, involving a 2017 Chevrolet van and a semi-truck, was reported around 5:10 a.m. on northbound Interstate 15 near Mission Road, California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe said. A man behind the wheel of the semi-truck was heading up a hill in the far...
RAINBOW – A 13-year-old boy was killed, a 7-year-old girl was injured and two adults were hurt when a big rig collided with an SUV in the northern reaches of San Diego County, authorities said on Wednesday, July 24. The crash happened about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, July 23, on Old Highway 395 at Rainbow Glen Road in Rainbow, California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe said. A 62-year-old man behind the wheel of a Peterbilt truck tractor pulling two trailers was heading northbound on Old Highway 395, while a 34-year-old w...
SAN DIEGO - A 19-year-old man from Victorville died when the sedan he was driving veered off Interstate 15 and crashed into a tree near Fallbrook, authorities said. The crash occurred on the northbound I-15, just north of state Route 76 and Pala Mesa Drive, shortly around 12:40 p.m. Sunday, July 21 according to the California Highway Patrol. The driver was behind the wheel of a 2000 Mercury Sable that was traveling in the number one lane in free-flowing traffic when he...
SAN DIEGO – On Friday, July 12, at approximately 3:30 a.m., San Diego CHP units were dispatched to a deer that had been struck on N/B I-15 south of West Bernardo Road. Upon CHP arrival, it was determined that a pedestrian had been struck several times by passing motorists. The #1-5 lanes were closed to facilitate investigative efforts. Two HOV lanes were opened for all northbound traffic. The San Diego CHP is asking for any motorists that were driving through the area that may have seen something to please contact their i...
FALLBROOK - One patient was transported to the hospital on Saturday, July 6 when the vehicle they were in crashed and sparked a fire on Old Highway 395 near Camino Del Rey around 3:45 p.m. There was no further information provided by Cal Fire San Diego....
SAN DIEGO - The California Highway Patrol arrested 46 drivers for drunken driving in San Diego County over the holiday, officials said on Friday, July 5. While there were no fatalities on county freeways this year, the CHP said eight people were killed, three without seatbelts, in California during the 30-hour July Fourth holiday period. The CHP holiday reporting period began 6 p.m. Wednesday and ended 6 a.m. Friday. The DUI arrests in the county this year increased over last year's July Fourth holiday period by 12. The CHP...
SAN DIEGO - Attention, holiday revelers -- the San Diego County Sheriff's Department will be on the lookout for motorists who get behind the wheel while intoxicated on the Fourth of July. Last year, the regional agency arrested eight people on suspicion of DUI on Independence Day. In 2017, deputies jailed five for alleged impaired driving during the patriotic holiday, sheriff's officials reported. So far this year, the department has arrested 647 people on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. De...
According to North County Fire, firefighters performed a side rope rescue for a driver that went over the side of Interstate 15 near Stewart Canyon Road at 5:52 p.m. Saturday, June 1 in Fallbrook. Traffic was not impacted and no information on the condition of the driver....
FALLBROOK - A woman was killed when her SUV veered off Interstate 15 and plunged down an embankment in Fallbrook, authorities said Friday, May 31. The crash was reported around 6:10 p.m. Thursday on southbound Interstate 15 between Mission Road and Stewart Canyon Road, according to a California Highway Patrol incident log. A witness told a CHP dispatcher that an SUV "flew off'' the right side of the freeway and rolled multiple times down a slope, according to the incident log. The woman was taken to Palomar Medical Center in...
FALLBROOK - A motorcyclist was killed Saturday, May 25 in a crash east of Fallbrook, the California Highway Patrol reported. The crash occurred around 1 p.m. along East Mission Road, near the intersection with Willow Glen Road, according to CHP's incident log. No other vehicles were mentioned, but a road sign reportedly was damaged. Officers found the rider on the ground some 50 feet from the roadway, according to the log. A CHP dispatcher did not have additional information....
FALLBROOK - A 71-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed in the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 15 by an alleged hit-and-run motorist at a Fallbrook intersection, authorities said. Dispatchers received multiple reports around 5:10 a.m. from callers who reported a person down at the intersection of North Vine Street and East Mission Road, California Highway Patrol Officer Tommy Doerr said. The man was attempting to cross East Mission Road near Iowa Street around 5:05...
FALLBROOK - Authorities on Saturday, May 11 were continuing to seek a driver who was involved in a crash with another car in Fallbrook early Friday then fled, was pursued by the other car's driver and escaped when the other driver was involved in a second crash. Officers said the driver of the Mustang was in critical condition at a hospital as a result of the crash. The dangerous chain of events began shortly before 9:40 a.m. when a brown SUV, possibly a GMC Envoy, and a Ford...
FALLBROOK - A rescue traffic incident in the vicinity of South Mission Road and Heller's Bend in Fallbrook will impact traffic for the next 1 to 2 hours, according to a report from the North County Fire Protection District at 1:28 p.m. Wednesday, April 17. No other details were shared at this time....
RAINBOW - A Menifee woman was killed Saturday, April 6 in a single-car crash off Interstate 15 in Rainbow, an official said. The 73-year-old woman from the Sun City area of Menifee was driving a Chevrolet Aveo north on I-15 when, for reasons that officials are investigating, she veered off the right shoulder of the freeway, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe. Her vehicle careened down an embankment, struck a tree and rolled before coming to rest in the shoulder of Old Highway 395 near Rainbow Glen...
UPDATE at 5:22 p.m.: According to North County Fire Protection District PIO John Choi, "The accident on S. Mission was a minor fender bender." He added that it was a non-injury and the roadway is now clear. Early story: Just after 3:30 pm today a traffic collision was reported at 2500 S. Mission Rd. near Olive Hill Rd. The accident involved a grey Toyota Tacoma and a white Jeep, according to County Highway Patrol. Fire trucks and CHP are on the scene....
Authorities identified a Fallbrook man who was killed in a motorcycle crash Sat. March 16, in Oceanside. Anthony Richard Duarte, 58, was riding northbound on El Camino Real when he lost control of his motorcycle and struck a concrete sign, according to Oceanside police. The accident occurred around 2 a.m. Saturday near Camino Town and Country Shopping Center. Duarte was thrown onto the road, where emergency personnel found him with severe trauma. No other vehicles were reportedly involved in the accident. Despite life-saving...
DE LUZ - It took emergency crews nearly an hour Wednesday, March 6 to rescue a severely injured motorist whose car veered off a rain-slick rural road in De Luz and plunged about 100 feet down a steep, brushy embankment. The four-door sedan crashed off Sandia Creek Drive north of Rock Mountain Road in De Luz about 3 p.m., said John Choi, a fire captain with North County Fire Protection District. Emergency personnel used ropes to get to the spot where the vehicle came to rest, freed the driver from the wreckage and hoisted the...
BONSALL - A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries on Tuesday, March 5 in a multi-vehicle crash involving a box truck in Bonsall. The collision happened shortly before 7:45 a.m. on southbound Interstate 15 north of Gopher Canyon Road, California Highway Patrol Officer Jim Bettencourt said. The unidentified motorcyclist was taken to Palomar Medical Center with major injuries, he said. CHP officers were investigating the circumstances leading up to the crash....
