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Deputy dies after his motorcycle is hit by a car; hours earlier, SUV hits LAPD officer

By Matthew A. Garcia 2 months ago
LAKEWOOD, CA FEBRUARY 25, 2021 - An investigation is underway after a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department motorcycle deputy was killed Thursday, February 25, 2021, in a crash in Lakewood.(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

An investigation is underway after a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department motorcycle deputy was killed Thursday in a crash in Lakewood. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was killed while pursuing a traffic stop Thursday morning when a car struck his motorcycle in Lakewood, authorities said.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said at an afternoon news conferencethat Deputy Thomas J. Albanese was headed north on Paramount Boulevard pursuing another car when he was killed in the busy intersection of Del Amo and Paramount boulevards. A woman heading west on Del Amo Boulevard in a Mercedes Benz collided with Albanese, Villanueva said

“The force of the collision, which was, it was extreme, it basically it threw him at a distance from the collision. He died instantaneously on impact,” Villanueva said.

Albanese, 41, a seven-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department, was working overtime when he was killed just

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New car sales fall 26.5% on back of latest lockdown

By Matthew A. Garcia 2 months ago

New car sales were down 26.5 per cent over the first 10 days of this year, hit by Covid restrictions and delays due to the administration of new Brexit rules.

In what is traditionally the busiest sales month of the year, 9,765 new cars were registered in the Republic by January 10th, down 3,523 on the same period last year.

The latest Covid-19 lockdown means dealer showrooms are closed, with sales restricted to click-and-deliver operations, although servicing departments remain open. Most of the new cars registered would have been on order by customers from the end of last year.

On top of the Covid restrictions, increased administration due to Brexit has caused some delays in deliveries. In particular, dealers are reporting that parts supplies have been impacted, though many had built up stock levels prior to January 1st.

According to Robert Guy, director aftersales for Volkswagen Group Ireland, their planning

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2020 new car sales showed strong recovery after initial pandemic shutdown

By Matthew A. Garcia 2 months ago

Auto sales across the country came to a halt last spring, as the public first went into lockdown over coronavirus fears. A drop so precipitous that some brands stopped reporting monthly sales entirely. But surprisingly, after April, when sales dropped by three quarters, the market recovered. Such a massive and quick recovery, that brands started setting sales records. One brand even ended up the year with more sales than 2019, which might be one of the biggest surprises of the year.

After a strong January and February, sales were cut in half for March and dropped 75 per cent in April. Fleet sales, to commercial customers such as daily rental agencies, were especially impacted. Kia Canada vice-president and COO Elias El-Achhab told us in May that only one or two automakers saw any fleet sales in April. 2018 data from GM shows fleet sales made up 25 per cent of

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