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The San Jose Mercury News reports that a three-car accident earlier this week resulted in injuries to two men and one woman. All three drivers were hospitalized after the crash with injuries that were described as serious but not life threatening.

The crash occurred on Wednesday just before eight o'clock in the morning. According to the California Highway Patrol the accident began when a 34-year-old man driving a Mazda lost control of his car and crossed over into the oncoming lanes of traffic.

In most car crashes in which there is a serious injury, time is of the essence Medical personnel attempt to extricate and begin treating the injured as soon as possible. For one California grandfather, the accident itself was only the beginning of his long ordeal.

The 67-year-old man was driving through the Angeles National Forest when a car accident on the highway caused his car and another car and driver to plunge off the road and 200 feet down to the bottom of a ravine. The 67-year-old man spent the next six days waiting for rescue.

In some accidents, the severity of the injuries is not readily apparent. The rush of adrenaline and disorientation that can immediately follow a car accident can cause a person to be oblivious of an injury. It may not be till later when they have had a chance to catch their breath that they notice the trauma. In other circumstances there is little to notice in the initial injury, some internal injuries may be difficult to detect for some time.

Some variation of this phenomenon appears to have been the case recently when an 11-year-old boy was struck by a car outside a restaurant. It appears that neither the boy, who was riding his bike with one of his parents, nor the car that struck him were moving very fast at the time of the collision. But the boy later needed serious medical attention.

The 29-year-old driver, who authorities say was responsible for a multiple-vehicle fatal accident, was arrested as soon as he was released from a San Jose trauma center. California Highway Patrol Officers arrested the man on charges of felony driving under the influence and felony vehicular manslaughter.

The accident occurred in the early morning hours, just before five o'clock, on Sunday morning north of Salinas. The crash involved three cars, one of which burst into flames after the collision. A 43-year-old Salinas man was killed in the crash.

Authorities are investigating a fatal accident in which the driver of a pickup truck struck a man on horseback, killing both the horse and its rider. The accident occurred on Saturday evening in Coyote Valley as the driver was returning to San Jose after visiting his son in Morgan Hill.

The man, who was riding the horse and lost his life in the accident, worked as an iPod engineer for Apple. He was riding his horse about one half mile from his ranch where he lived.