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El Dorado County prosecutors filed a vehicular manslaughter charge Thursday against the alleged driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal crash at the intersection of Ski Run Boulevard and Pioneer Tr...

A 19-year-old Petaluma woman who was found dead last week after attending the SnowGlobe Music Festival may have been attempting to walk back to her hotel when she made a wrong turn on Pioneer Trail...

Four of the people killed in 2012's fatal crashes died on Highway 395 during the same night.Figures released by the Nevada Highway Patrol list six fatal accidents in Douglas County that resulted in...

A South Lake Tahoe man died and two were hospitalized in an early Saturday morning accident near Pioneer Trail and Ski Run Boulevard.
William Olazaba of South Lake Tahoe, a passenger in a white Honda Accord driven by Roberto Olazaba, 22, died at Barton Memorial Hospital. According to South Lake Tahoe police, the Honda broadsided a GMC Yukon driven by Noe Corea, 26, of South Lake Tahoe.
The accident was reported at around 1:35 a.m. and alcohol is suspected as being a contributing factor, according to South Lake Tahoe police. The vehicles struck a power utility box and knocked out power to the Ski Run area, police said.

RENO, Nev. - The National Transportation Safety Board prepared to determine on Tuesday who or what was to blame for last year's fatal crash between a truck and an Amtrak passenger train that kil...

TRUCKEE, Calif. - Officials are investigating a fatal vehicle vs. cyclist collision that occurred at the Central Truckee Roundabout Saturday afternoon, according to the Truckee Police Department.Tr...

The airplane that crashed after takeoff from Lake Tahoe Airport on August 25 in which five people died may have experienced problems with a fuel and air mixture — after landing earlier in the day at the airport, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office detectives have released the name of the man who was fatally shot Friday in Placerville as Richard Lee Hart, 37.
Michael Steven Hayes of Placerville is the alleged shooter in the event that happened on Lo Hi Way. Hayes has not been arrested and no charges have been filed at this time per the investigating detectives, said Lt. Tim Decker.
El Dorado County authorities are trying to determine whether the shooting was in self defense. Hart was reportedly armed with a handgun at the time he was fatally shot by Hayes.

El Dorado County authorities are investigating a fatal shooting Friday night in Placerville. A 37-year-old man was found dead in the 3100 block of Lo Hi Way after a report to dispatch that a gunshot was heard and that a man armed with a handgun had been shot with a shotgun.
No arrests have been made and the dead man's identity is being withheld pending notification of family.

The Nevada Highway Patrol has released more information into two deadly vehicle accidents this weekend that resulted in four fatalities on Highway 395 in Douglas County. The accidents happened within a few hours of each other. The first accident, in which three people died, was reported at 11:45 p.m. Saturday night near Leviathan Mine Road on Highway 395.

UPDATE: 5:18PM: A female passenger on a motorcycle died this Labor Day and the driver was seriously injured on Highway 50 near Glenbrook, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol. In a separate accident on Mount Rose Highway a motorcyclist has also died.
The Highway 50 accident, reported at 3:13 Monday afternoon near Logan Creek on the East Shore of Lake Tahoe, shut down traffic in the eastbound lane. Traffic, as of 5 p.m. continued to be diverted to the westbound lane, said NHP Trooper Barbara Stapleton.

UPDATE 3PM: South Lake Tahoe authorities say a 49-year-old man dressed in dark clothes was struck and killed by a van after attempting to cross Lake Tahoe Boulevard outside of the crosswalk.
More details have been released by South Lake Tahoe Police Department regarding Tuesday night's fatal accident that shut down Lake Tahoe Boulevard / Highway 50 from Pioneer Trail to Midway for about three hours. The driver of the van that hit the pedestrian has been cleared of any wrong-doing, according to Sgt. Brad Williams. The investigation is continuing and the identity of the pedestrian is being withheld pending notification of family members.

CARNELIAN BAY, Calif. - The Placer County Sheriff's Office on Sunday identified the victim of last week's fatal head-on collision on Lake Tahoe's North Shore as a longtime local resident who co-...

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Details are unclear regarding circumstances that led to a fatal big-rig crash Monday afternoon at the runaway truck ramp near the intersection of highways 431 and 28 on L...

A preliminary report issued Friday by the National Safety Transportation Board is examining weather conditions and a dwindling fuel supply as possible factors in the March 6 fatal crash of an Israe...

Douglas County authorities are investigating the death of a 31-year-old Gardnerville woman who was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.
Deputies of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence early Sunday morning in the 1300 block of Waterloo Lane after dispatch received a call from a distraught man who said his wife had shot herself at their home, said Douglas County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Jim Halsey.

In light of the recent accidents involving pedestrians who have been struck and killed and the fact that pedestrian-related crashes in Douglas, Lyon and Washoe Counties were higher in 2011, as opposed to the previous year, troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol will be concentrating their enforcement efforts on pedestrian and crosswalk violations over the next several weeks*.

The force sent the person into the westbound lane where he was lodged in the undercarriage of a Reno-Tahoe Transportation van. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The name of the CHP officer, wh...

An Incline Village couple have been identified in the fatal pedestrian accident on Friday night at a crosswalk on State Route 28 in Incline Village. The Nevada Highway Patrol reports Robert C. Mathis and Linda Mathis, both 46 and husband and wife, died from injuries sustained in the accident. Family members have been notified.

NORDEN, Calif. - State regulators and Sugar Bowl Ski Resort officials continue to investigate varying eyewitness reports regarding what led to a 7-year-old boy falling 60 feet off a chairlift Sunda...

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