Accident on PCH kills Westminster man A...

Accident on PCH kills Westminster man

A Saturday traffic accident in Huntington Beach claimed the life

of a Westminster resident who was driving a minibike across a busy

intersection.

Daniel Barry, 20, died after the 10:49 p.m. crash at Pacific Coast

Highway and Brookhurst Street, police said.

A white van driven east on Pacific Coast Highway by 19-year-old

Ontario resident Derek Vanderploeg struck Barry on his minibike as he

was driving north through the intersection, Lt. Craig Juninger said.

Barry was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, where he

died at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Vanderploeg was not hurt in the crash,

police said.

Police closed off Pacific Coast Highway for several hours as they

investigated the accident, Juninger said, and investigators are still

working on the case.

Police do not have any evidence suggesting that alcohol was a

factor in the crash, Sgt. Dave Bunetta said.

Pedestrian killed while crossing traffic

A pedestrian was killed Monday night after being struck by a car

on Beach Boulevard.

Joseph Theodore Gibson, a 33-year-old Westminster resident, died

after a 1992 Toyota Corolla driven by Elda Carballo of Huntington

Park hit him.

The accident happened at 10:02 p.m. on Beach Boulevard just north

of Taylor Drive.

Witnesses saw Carballo, who was driving north, hit her brakes to

avoid a collision with Gibson as he crossed the street, police said.

“He was walking in traffic and was not in any crosswalk,” Sgt.

Dave Bunetta said.

The impact sent Gibson into the Corolla’s windshield, breaking the

glass, a police statement said. Carballo’s car drove over the center

divider in the street, and Gibson was thrown into the southbound

lanes of Beach Boulevard.

“Paramedics arrived, but he was pronounced dead at the scene,”

Bunetta said.

The accident is still under investigation. There is no indication

that alcohol was a factor in the collision, police said.

No people are injured in acid bomb explosion

An acid bomb reportedly exploded in front of a Huntington Beach

home on Saturday afternoon.

Police have no suspects, but investigators have determined that a

“homemade acid-type bomb” blew up in front of a home in the 16000

block of Springdale Street at about 3 p.m., Sgt. Dave Bunetta said.

Janice Johnson, who reported the crime, did not see the bomber,

police said.

No injuries were reported.

“The reporting party just heard a loud boom,” Bunetta said.

Bomb materials found by police were taken by bomb squad officers

from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department to be examined as

evidence, Bunetta said.

Assault, child annoyance suspect arrested

A man who allegedly harassed two Huntington Beach girls ended up

in a fight with their father before being arrested by police on

Saturday.

Jilberto Jimenez, 26, of Huntington Beach, was charged with

assault and child annoyance. The girls’ father was not charged in

connection with the fight.

Police would not release the father’s name to protect the identity

of his 12- and 15-year-old daughters.

At about 4 p.m., one of the man’s daughters called police to

report that their father and Jimenez were fighting near a strip mall

in the 17500 block of Beach Boulevard. The girls had called their

father for help after Jimenez had allegedly sexually harassed them as

they were walking home on Beach Boulevard, police said.

The girls called their father from a store near Beach Boulevard

and Slater Avenue. When he arrived, they pointed out Jimenez, Sgt.

Dave Bunetta said. When the father confronted Jimenez, a fight broke

out.

“Jimenez took a swing at the father,” Bunetta said.

Neither man was seriously injured in the scuffle, police said.