2 HURT; 13 VEHICLES COLLIDE ON FREEWAY.CANYON COUNTRY - A series of chain-reaction crashes Monday morning injured two people, damaged 13 cars and blocked commuter traffic Noun 1. commuter traffic - traffic created by people going to or returning from work traffic - the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time for several hours on the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. in Canyon Country. Investigators blamed inattentive in·at·ten·tive adj. Exhibiting a lack of attention; not attentive. in  at·ten drivers for the mayhem that started at 5:15 a.m. when five vehicles tangled as traffic slowed unexpectedly. That tied up the southbound freeway for five miles, and the ensuing backup resulted in collisions involving eight more vehicles. It was more than 90 minutes before traffic flowed smoothly. ``The crashes all happened because people were not paying attention Noun 1. paying attention - paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences" attentiveness, heed, regard to their driving,'' said CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer Doug Sweeney. ``They were all driving too fast for the conditions out there.'' Driver Ross Trinidad, 50, of Palmdale, in a 1988 Ford Ranger The Ford Ranger name is used on two distinct and unrelated pickup truck lines by the Ford Motor Company
``He began to slow down for the traffic ahead of him,'' Sweeney said. ``He slowed down - everybody else did not.'' Trinidad was hit from behind by Mark Meyer, 46, of Agua Dulce, who was driving a 1999 Dodge pickup. Meyer was rear-ended by Louis Capasso, 47 of Lancaster, driving a Saturn. Two more motorists from Palmdale completed the chain reaction. Capasso suffered moderate injuries and was transported to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. About 20 minutes after the lanes had reopened and speeds began to pick up, three more crashes occurred in the same area, officials said. One driver, Marie Rodriguez, 52, of Lancaster, was transported to Newhall Memorial with possible internal injuries. |
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