#car-crash

#car-crash

As he laid in a hospital bed last April, grateful just to be alive, Alijah Arenas dreamed of this moment. He thought of it in the weeks and months after his Tesla Cybertruck hit a tree and burst into flames in Reseda, leaving him hospitalized for six days. And he thought of it over a long summer and fall spent rehabbing the injured knee that failed him in his first week back to practice at USC.

A cyclist was fatally struck Monday morning on the SMART train tracks in Santa Rosa. The collision happened near Piner Road in Santa Rosa around 10:26 am, and the train was traveling south from Windsor. [Chronicle] San Francisco's Homeward Bound program, which offers free bus and plane tickets to homeless individuals who'd like to return to cities where they came from, appeared to lose some traction in 2025, with fewer people taking the city up on the offer. [Chronicle]

Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have passed their condolences to the families of Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele, the two friends who died in a car crash in Nigeria this week in which Anthony Joshua was also injured. Ayodele, also known as Latz, was a personal trainer of Joshua, while Ghami acted as strength and conditioning coach for the 36-year-old boxer. Joshua remains in hospital in Lagos where he was described by his management team as being in a stable condition.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, their loved ones, and all who are grieving during this very difficult time,

St Peter and Paul's Church in Drumconrath, Co Meath, was packed to capacity for Mr McCluskey's funeral, with standing room only as mourners filled every pew and lined the walls. Outside, crowds gathered along the church grounds and tractors lined the village in a mark of respect and honouring Mr McCluskey's love for machinery and farming. Such was the turnout that a livestream of the funeral was set up in the community centre.

Martínéz, 27, was driving to Inter's training ground in Appiano Gentile when at 9:43 a.m. on a provincial road in Fenegrò, Como, Italy, when the car struck a man in an electric wheelchair that had crossed into his lane, the police report said. Martínéz stopped at the scene and called the emergency services, with an ambulance and a helicopter arriving minutes later, but attempts to revive the man were unsuccessful.

The former West Ham forward, 35, was trapped inside his 260,000 GTC4Lusso for 45 minutes with a broken leg after hitting a tree in December 2024. Antonio had been driving home from West Ham's training ground in Romford when he veered off the road near Theydon Bois in Epping. He required surgery after being saved by firefighters and later commented that "sports cars are not my friends."

Marcus Fakana, 19, died in hospital in the early hours of Friday after police tried to stop a vehicle at 12.52am in Tottenham, north London. The Metropolitan police said its officers were attempting to stop a vehicle of interest on Pretoria Road, and after a short pursuit, police temporarily lost sight of it. Officers then drove on to the Roundway and found the vehicle had been involved in a collision with another vehicle.