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Could you imagine sitting in your lovely little Store, tending to customers or stocking the shelves with your newest products. You're just Minding your own business, and having a regular day, when suddenly a van drives through the front door of your store. Glass shatters everywhere, Products are smashed under the tires of the van, and possibly someone is horribly injured by the van as well. To most people this sounds more like a nightmare than something that could actually happen to someone, but that wasn't the case for two women in Sacramento CA. This nightmare became a reality when The two women were sitting in their Hair Salon working a normal day, when a man ran his van into the front window.

According to an article on New10.net:

The van careened through the front door of the salon connected to the Tops 'n Bottoms clothing store on the 5200 block of Fruitridge Road around 3 p.m. Saturday, Sacramento police Sgt. Norm Leong said.

Leong said the owner and her niece were inside the store when the van crashed inside.

"He hit it full speed," said Tops 'n Bottoms owner. "There was no brake-pressing or anything like that."

Witnesses said one of the women was trapped under the van and screaming before being rescued by passing pedestrians.

"I saw a young lady crawling out with blood all over her face," Richardson said. "It was definitely crazy."

Both victims were taken to the hospital with injuries.
Officers arrested the driver of the van, 55-year-old Johnny Walker, on possible DUI charges. Walker also faced charges on an outstanding warrant for drug possession in an unrelated case, Leong said.

Investigators were looking into what led to the crash.

Tops n' Bottoms owner said he had seen at least six or seven traffic accidents on the busy Fruitridge stretch near his store since he took over three months ago. He hoped city officials would take a hard look at traffic through the area.

"They really do need to govern these streets a little more, add a light or two, a stop sign, something," Tops n' Bottoms owner said.

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Christmas Eve a house exploded in Rancho Cordova, right off Highway 50 between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe. One elderly man was killed and five other people were injured. As a Sacramento Personal Injury Lawyer and a resident of this area, it is very alarming when a home mysteriously blows up, a home that could have easily been mine or a family members. To lose your home is a very tragic and difficult thing to have to deal with, I personally have had to go through a house fire explosion. Though ours was a complete mystery, there has been some speculation that this Rancho Cordova house explosion could of been the result of a gas leak.

According to CBS 13 News:

The explosion sent three victims to the University of California, Davis medical complex in Sacramento in critical condition.

One of those victims, Wilbert Paana, 72, suffered a severe abdominal injuries and has died, according to hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Brown.

Brown identified the other burn victims as Kim Dickson, in her mid-40s, who is in critical condition, and 17-year-old Sunny Dickson, who was transferred later in the day to nearby Shriners Hospital for Children.

Officials could not immediately say where the Dicksons and Paana were when the home exploded.

Two others, including a utility worker, had lesser injuries.

A firefighter was also injured and taken to Mercy San Juan Medical Center. He was treated and released.

John Turner, who lives in a duplex about two blocks from the leveled home, said he heard "a big boom" shortly after 1:30 p.m.

"It sounded like something had fallen on my roof," he said in a telephone interview. "I saw flames about as high as the house next door ... the smoke was billowing from that area."

Turner, 30, said he did not smell anything but saw two PG&E trucks near the explosion site when he walked out of his house.

Joe Helton, 33, said he was one of the first to arrive at the destroyed home and saw a woman from the house.

"I asked her if there was anybody else in the house and she said her dad was in the house. So I ran to where the garage was, but it was pretty much smoke and fire in there," he said.

Helton said he helped two next-door neighbors get out of their house and sat the injured PG&E worker down in a chair. He and others then discovered a man buried under wood shingles and debris about 10 feet from the sidewalk.

"We started pulling stuff away. You couldn't even tell he was there; the stuff was covering him," Helton said.

As a Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins specializes in serious personal injury cases and/or wrongful death cases. We believe that if you or a loved one have been seriously injured and your not at fault, you have the right to obtain an experienced personal injury attorney. Hiring an experienced injury lawyer will help you win the money to pay for medical care, and other expenses resulting from your accident.

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