Vehicle Accidents

The driver of this golf cart was transported to the hospital by ambulance after driving into the drainage ditch at Guadalupe and Pera drives around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.  Officials on the scene said the man claimed he was making a turn to pick up his mail when he drove into the ditch.

A car rolled over in the westbound lane of Jackson Road during Thursday morning's commute. Online CHP information said the accident caused only minor injuries. The car was resting on its roof following the 7:40 a.m. accident, just east of the North Gate. Traffic in both directions continued to creep past the accident scene for an hour until the road was cleared.

Erratic driving caused by a suspected medical condition resulted in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 16 at the North Gate intersection about 1 p.m. Saturday, according to the California Highway Patrol.  The CHP and Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District responded to the accident. "She's fine now," said CHP Officer B. Hagen of the driver, who was not injured in the accident. Witnesses reported that the black GMC had been driving erratically and drifted across the intersection and onto the shoulder before striking a tank at the Chevron station. The tank, a clean air separator that controls gasoline storage tank pressure, was not damaged, Hagen said.

No one was injured when a car left the road and hit a tree at Camino Del Lago and Lago Circle around 1 p.m. Saturday. Security said the driver, a juvenile, said he wasn't paying attention and went off the road. He was the only occupant. Security said CHP was on its way.

Debris from the accident included a boat and the wreckage of the motor home.

A woman died and two men were injured in a two-car crash that ignited a grass fire on Jackson Road east of the South Gate Wednesday afternoon.  One injured man was transported to Rancho Murieta Airport and life-flighted out to a hospital and a third was taken to the hospital by ambulance.  Jackson Road was closed to through traffic for more than four hours. Read more »

The topic was roads at the community meeting held this week by Sacramento County Supervisor Roberta MacGlashan.   Michael J. Penrose, director of the county Department of Transportation, talked about issues with area roads after MacGlashan started the meeting off with a review of recent county budget actions. Read more »

A car jumped the curb, hit a tree and overturned on Murieta Parkway near Camino Del Lago around 6:40 p.m. Tuesday. The driver, described by Security as a 19-year-old visitor from Southern California, was alone in the car. He was taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure, according to Security. CHP Officer K. Zang described the cause of the accident as an unsafe turning movement. Tire tracks indicate the car left the road in the southbound lane, broke a cable box in the center divider and hit a tree, which flipped the car onto its back. About 20 minutes before the crash, the driver had been with friends at the Villas when an altercation broke out between a brother and sister, according to Security. The driver wasn’t involved in the fight, according to Security. Deputies were called to handle that incident. The car crash is being investigated by the CHP.

A graduation celebration ended abruptly for one partygoer late Sunday night when he was arrested after the car he was driving left the road and crashed into a tree in the front yard of a Guadalupe Drive home, Security reported Monday. Read more »

A school bus veered off Jackson Road east of Dillard Road and flipped over about 10 a.m. Wednesday. There were no students on the bus, which was serving a private school, and the driver was not injured, according to the California Highway Patrol. Murietan Bridget Gransee witnessed the accident and took this photo from her vehicle. “If I hadn't pulled off the road in the split seconds before the accident, who knows?” she wrote in an email. “The bus slid down the freeway behind me as I was stopped behind a guy who was turning. Bus driver was not hurt and no kids on the bus.”

There were apparently no serious injuries in a vehicle rollover that occurred about 3:30 p.m. Friday on the unpaved road around Lake Chesbro. The sedan’s two male occupants got out of the flipped car and left the scene, witnesses told Security officers.  The Toyota Camry was traveling at a high speed before it rolled over, the witnesses said. Sacramento Metro Fire Station 59 responded and determined the damaged vehicle was not a fire risk. A tow truck was called to remove the vehicle, which is registered to a resident, according to Security.