Accident

legs The driver charged with causing an accident that severed a Glendale man's legs pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Pasadena courtroom, officials said. Choon Suk Ro, 41, of Montrose was charged with two counts of felony hit and run, two counts of felony DUI, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of driving with a suspended license, one count of destruction of evidence, and one count of possession of marijuana in a car, California Highway Patrol Officer Vince Bell said.

Josh Kleinbaum A 50-year-old Glendale man killed in a seven-car accident on the Long Beach (710) Freeway was identified Friday, one of six deaths caused by the accident on Thursday morning. Officials from the county coroner's office identified Jorge Manzur, 50, as the driver of a black Mercedes-Benz S320 that was involved in the accident. Manzur was driving south on the freeway in East Los Angeles when a tractor-trailer carrying furniture jumped over the median and crashed into the Mercedes, killing Manzur, said Officer Jesse Cazares of the California Highway Patrol.

A Montrose woman lost her life in a traffic accident on La Tuna Canyon Road Tuesday morning. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, around 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday a silver Jeep crossed the double yellow line in the 9300 block of La Tuna Canyon into the path of a dark colored Saturn driven by Michelle Wincentsen, 31, of Montrose. "Wincentsen was unconscious when paramedics pulled her from the wreckage. They worked on her but pronounced her dead at the scene," said an LAPD spokesperson.

NORTH GLENDALE — Two men were hospitalized, one with serious injuries, after a car collision that involved speeding and may have been related to street racing, or chasing, police said. A teenager was driving east at high speeds in a red minivan on Glenoaks Boulevard when he hit a Nissan sedan at about 7 p.m. that was turning left at Concord Street, said Police Lt. Carl Povilaitis, who was at the scene. The driver of the Nissan, who was alone, was seriously injured and undergoing surgery Friday night at County-USC Medical Center for unknown injuries, Povilaitis said.

Normally Foothill Boulevard is the community’s “straight through shot” to all that is Crescenta Valley. The road is wide, the lights are timed and, except for slight congestion during school drop-off and pick-up times, the traveling is pretty uneventful. But recently, there have been delays due to traffic accidents along Foothill. The first was on Oct. 15 when a Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s patrol unit driven by Deputy William Fillpot was involved in an accident with another driver about 12:30 p.m. in the 2800 block of Foothill Boulevard.

GLENDALE — A motorist crashed into trash bins on a homeowner’s lawn Tuesday morning at the corner of Monterey and Verdugo roads, then plowed through a traffic signal box and slammed into another home’s front gate, where her car stopped, police said. Homeowner Sharon Kennedy was looking out her kitchen window just after 8:30 a.m. Tuesday when she heard the car crash into her trash bins. When she went outside, she saw her trash, including bills, scattered across her front lawn.

Metrolink crash survivors and family members of the victims gathered to pay tribute to loved ones who lost their lives and those who responded to help, during a memorial dedication on Sunday in Atwater Village. Glendale Mayor Dave Weaver and Los Angeles County officials, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, unveiled a memorial located on the corner of Los Feliz Place and Seneca Avenue, across from the Costco parking lot. "There are definitely moments in history that nobody will forget," Weaver said.

A woman died Saturday morning after her pickup truck shot about 50 feet off the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway into an area full of brush and trees near the Glendale-Los Angeles border. The fatal accident, which occurred about 9:30 a.m., jammed traffic for hours around the 5 and Ventura (134) freeways.  The woman's husband, who was also in the vehicle, survived the crash after the car spun out over the freeway's edge. He sustained minor injuries, Jacobs said, adding that neither their identities nor information about who was driving were available.

The Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officer injured in a car accident in Glendale was still recovering from his injuries Wednesday, officials said. Officer Carlos Sanchez, a 20-year LAPD veteran, was riding his motorcycle north on Adams Street when he collided with a Mitsubishi Mirage turning south onto Adams from Vincent Way. Sanchez suffered two broken wrists, a broken hip, pelvis and leg, Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Asta Webster said.

Karen S. Kim NORTHWEST GLENDALE -- About a dozen youths turned out Monday afternoon to place a small memorial on the Golden State (5) Freeway where two people died in an accident. The two victims were heading northbound on the freeway just south of the Alameda Avenue offramp at 12:35 a.m. Sunday when the car careened into a eucalyptus tree off the side of road, police said. "From what one of our investigators on the scene said, this is one of the more severe accidents he's seen," California Highway Patrol Officer Vincent Bell said.