Chicago

A bicyclist is dead after being hit by a car in Chicago. The accident occurred at around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday night, in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago’s West Side. The bicyclist was travelling west on Division Street, and was crossing the intersection of Sacramento Avenue when he was hit by a car travelling north. …

San Francisco

A female pedestrian was killed on Union and Buchanan Streets in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco, in the first pedestrian death in the city of 2017. The incident happened shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. The pedestrian was apparently hit by a truck pulling a trailer while crossing the street. Eyewitnesses say …

Chicago Heights

Katharine G. Bizzotto, 31, was killed Monday night in an auto accident a snowplow in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Bizzotto, a resident of Thornton, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred just before midnight at Alice and Halstead Streets. The snowplow in the incident was a 2015 International truck owned by the …

National City

Three lanes and an onramp were closed on southbound Interstate 805 in National City on Tuesday, after a semi truck caught fire. The fire, which started at about 2 p.m., appears to have started when a mattress being carried by the vehicle in front of the truck flew off and became trapped under the wheels …

Fallbrook

An 84-year-old man was killed at approximately 8:30 Monday morning, when an oak tree fell on his vehicle. The tragedy occurred in the 2200 block of Willow Glen Road, in Fallbrook, California. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and his body was trapped in his vehicle, a gray Toyota Sienna, for several hours …

San Diego

A San Diego high school student was hit by a car at approximately 7 a.m. Wednesday. The accident occurred in the 5100 block of Santo Road and Porto Court, in the Tierrasanta Neighborhood of San Diego, near Junipero Serra High School, where the student attends school. Witnesses say that the boy was thrown across the …