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Police are looking for witnesses of a Monday traffic collision on Newport Boulevard. According to police, a Chevy Trail Blazer westbound on Mesa Drive collided with a Ford Focus northbound on Newport Boulevard about 3:33 p.m. The accident sent two drivers and a passenger to the hospital. Police did not immediately specify who was driving. Roberta Coder, 82, of Long Beach, was sent to Mission Hospital with critical injuries. She died the next day of natural causes unrelated to the crash, coroner officials said.

The 52-year-old Corona del Mar man who was severely injured Dec. 13 when he was hit by an alleged drunk driver remained unconscious in the hospital as of late Thursday, police said. An updated condition was not available as of late Saturday. Thomas Kroopf was stopped on the side of the road helping his son with car problems at 2:20 a.m. Dec. 13 when the accident happened. He had parked his car near the curb on Newport Coast Drive when a Hummer H2 hit the rear end of his car, knocking him over a chain link fence and down an embankment.

BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS Man killed after car flies off bridge The driver of a Porsche traveling at speeds of about 100 mph on the Costa Mesa Freeway on Tuesday night was killed after he lost control of his car, which ended up smashing through a guard rail before plunging onto the San Diego Freeway, California Highway Patrol officials said. The driver, whose name was not released, was reportedly pursuing another car that passed him after he entered the freeway from the Del Mar Avenue onramp just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, CHP officials said.

The Costa Mesa man who allegedly used his BMW to run down another man in an Aliso Viejo shopping center attempted to file a stolen vehicle report for his car Friday, police said. Morteza Bakhtiari, 26, is believed to be the driver of a silver BMW that struck a pedestrian while speeding through the parking lot of the Aliso Viejo Town Center late Thursday. Forty-one-year-old John Royston was walking through the parking lot when he saw the car driving too fast and either said something or waved for the driver to slow down.

A pickup truck struck a 12-year-old boy who ran across MacArthur Boulevard in traffic Friday morning, Newport Beach police said. The boy, a seventh-grader at Corona Del Mar Middle School, was on his way to school about 7 a.m. when he ran westbound from Bonita Canyon Road across MacArthur Boulevard, said Newport Beach police Sgt. Evan Sailor. A Dodge pickup southbound on MacArthur struck the boy as he was crossing the street, Sailor said. The truck had a green light at the time of the accident, and the driver does not appear to be at fault, Sailor said.

First-responders speculate that a surfer found floating face down in the water Thursday morning off Crystal Cove State Beach likely crashed into the sea floor while trying to catch a wave. Newport Beach Battalion Chief Steve Bunting said the man, whose name and age were not immediately available, was surfing with friends Thursday morning when he injured himself and couldn’t swim to shore on his own. The group was surfing on the southern tip of Crystal Cove, also known as El Morro, about 8 a.m. when one of them called 911 about their fellow surfer.

A 65-year-old Irvine man involved in a cycling accident along Newport Coast Drive earlier this month has died, police confirmed Tuesday. Dan Crane was injured at 6:40 p.m. Aug. 3 when his bicycle collided with a Land Rover on the far right lane, where the Corona del Mar (73) Freeway merges with the southbound lanes of Newport Coast Drive, said Sgt. Steve Burdette of the Newport Beach Police Department. Crane was transported to Mission Hospital shortly after the accident. He was able to give a statement and showed good recollection of the incident, Burdette said.

One of the two Costa Mesa hikers who got lost in Trabuco Canyon was found about 9 p.m. Wednesday. Orange County Sheriff's Department Lt. Jason Park said Nicholas Cendoya, 19, was found after a crew of hikers said they saw him and pointed in his direction. Cendoya was conscious but weak and confused, Park said. A helicopter was sent to pick him up in a thick brush area about a half mile from where his car was found. VIDEO: KTLA reports from the scene As of 10:30 p.m. Kyndall Jack, 18, was still missing.

Newport Beach firefighters made two rescues over the weekend, including a rescue of a person who was injured on a rocky part of the coast, according to officials. At 1:48 p.m. Sunday firefighters received a call of an injured cyclist near El Moro Canyon, a popular cycling location in Crystal Cove State Park, said Fire Department spokeswoman Jennifer Schulz. Firefighters took the man to Mission Hospital Laguna Beach for treatment, although his condition was not released. At 2:24 p.m., firefighters and lifeguards responded to a call of a person down on a mile-long stretch of coast between Rocky Point and Ladder Rock, a rocky area near cliffs that is difficult to access.

Newport Beach police made an arrest early Tuesday in connection to a weekend hit-and-run that killed a doctor riding her bike. Michael Jason Lopez, 39, of Anaheim is believed to have been driving a full-sized black pickup truck in the Saturday collision that killed Dr. Catherine "Kit" Campion Ritz, Newport police said. Lopez was arrested at 2 a.m. on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, according to police. He was booked at Newport Beach Jail and held in lieu of $100,000 bail.