Truck Crash Launches Skateboard at Girl

A blue Dodge truck ran over a skateboard Dec. 27, sending the board flying into a girl sitting nearby, authorities said Wednesday.

Paramedics were called to Heron Circle in Seal Beach at about 11:31 a.m, after police received a report of vehicle hitting a pedestrian.

Luckily the inital report was wrong -- the girl wasn't on the skateboard at the time, according to Seal Beach Police Department Sgt. Rick Ransdell. 

Randsdell said the girl was sitting on a nearby planter and had placed her skateboard in the street.

When the truck rounded the planter and drove over the board, the girl suffered “minor injuries" from the impact. 

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

• 12/27/2012 — 4:55 p.m.  — 14th Street — A woman reportedly kicked down an apartment door and went inside, a caller said. The kicker was described as in her 20s, with red hair and reportedly looking drunk. She also reportedly had a black lab dog with her. She shut the door after she went inside, and the caller reporteldy not seen her leave. The door had a hole in it. it turned out it was resident who locked herself out.

PETTY THEFT

• 12/28/2012 — 8:11 a.m. — Banyan Avenue — Someone broke the lock on a 2005 silver Honda Accord and stole “electronics related tools and gift cards.”

SUSPICIOUS PEOPLE IN VEHICLE

• 12/28/2012 — 10:09 a.m. — Seal Beach Boulevard — Three men in a white Ford Edge were reportedly selling surround-sound equipment out of their vehicle. The caller said he read about before, and said it’s “a huge scam.”

COUNSELING

• 12/29/2012 — 9:03 a.m. —Yale Circle — A woman wanted to report that someone had posted her phone number on Craigslist, and listed her as someone who would supply alcohol to minors.