LOS ANGELES - Orlando Bloom was involved in a minor car crash on a Hollywood street early Friday morning, police said.

A surprise downpour sparked collisions involving 69 vehicles on an interstate near Phoenix's downtown area Saturday evening, closing the westbound roadway for hours and sending seven people to hospitals.

An Arizona Department of Public Safety officer suffered minor injuries in a crash southeast of Phoenix.

RIALTO, Calif. - A commuter train collided with a freight train Thursday in Southern California, producing no serious injuries but bringing back memories of a deadly commuter-train wreck in the region just two months ago.

A Tribune newspaper carrier was killed in a car crash Tuesday, becoming the paper’s third carrier to die from a collision since December.

September 9, 2004

September 9, 2004

A Florida woman was killed Wednesday when she was hit by a car that was hit by a train in Gilbert, police said. The car was on the tracks following a minor accident.

A 35-year-old man drove his BMW into a north Scottsdale home early Friday morning, causing extensive damage.

A compressed natural gas tank turned into a missile Monday, launching out of a Brown & Brown Chevrolet service bay, soaring more than 500 feet, crashing down through the roof of a nearby body shop and critically injuring a longtime employee.

July 6, 2004

A car accidentally slammed into the front lobby windows of a Tempe church Sunday, trapping a woman under the vehicle and injuring two other people, police and fire officials said.

LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan, whose car crash in May led to a state law aimed at reining in celebrity photographers, has crashed again, this time after witnesses said she was swarmed by paparazzi.

Scott Hembree has no trouble believing the Gilbert intersection near his business is the town's most accident-prone corner.

PEORIA - Three people were killed and a fourth person was critically injured when their car collided head-on with a semi-truck on State Route 74 in Peoria.

WILLIAMS - A driver speeding on a road outside Williams lost control of his car and slammed into a tree, killing five people, police said Tuesday. A teenage girl survived despite being thrown more than 50 feet from the vehicle.

JACKSON, Miss. - Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition Monday after the car he was driving left a rural road in the Mississippi Delta and flipped several times.

An Arizona law officer was struck and killed by another officer's patrol car while he was laying down spike strips to stop a vehicle during a high-speed freeway chase.

A three-vehicle collision Wednesday on the eastbound US 60 near Mill Avenue resulted in the death of a Mesa man. Ken Klar, 58, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from his 1989 Ford Bronco about 2:18 p.m. after it collided with a 2000 Toyota passenger car and rolled over in the highway’s high-speed lane.

The family of a Mesa motorcyclist who died in a crash involving a Williams police officer has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the city for $2.3 million.

A bizarre chain-reaction car wreck, started by a vehicle’s hood flipping open, killed a good Samaritan and closed a section of U.S. Highway 60 in east Mesa on Sunday night.

Tom Horne caused more than $1,000 worth of damage to another vehicle before driving away without leaving a note, ostensibly, according to FBI agents, to conceal an affair.