VAN NUYS — Prosecutors filed court papers Monday asking a judge to revoke Rebecca Grossman’s privilege to make telephone calls while in jail, contending that she has used the calls to “engage in wholly improper conduct or potentially illegal conduct” after being convicted of second-degree murder and other charges involving a crash that killed two … Read more
More people were killed in traffic collisions on the streets of Los Angeles in 2023 than were murdered. The city pledged in 2015 to end driving and pedestrian deaths before 2025, and after nine years of doing basically nothing, the city just keeps setting new fatality records year after year. An astonishing 337 Los Angelinos … Read more
The LAPD is looking for help from the public following a fatal hit-and-run Friday night in Panorama City, authorities said on Saturday. Around 6 p.m., a vehicle described as a lowered black pickup truck was traveling westbound on Roscoe Boulevard when it hit a woman walking northbound on Wakefield Avenue at an unmarked crosswalk, a … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that road safety is still an urgent global issue, even though it notes progress has been made over more than 10 years. The number of annual road traffic deaths has fallen to 1.19 million per year, amounting to about a five per cent drop since 2010, according to … Read more
