3 WOMEN INJURED IN NEWHALL CAR CRASH; AUTO HITS TRUCK, SKIDS DOWN EMBANKMENT.Byline: Daily News Three elderly Valencia women were critically injured Wednesday afternoon in Newhall when the car they were in plunged down a 75-foot embankment into a mobile-home park, officials said. One of the women was near death, and was transported by air to the trauma center trauma center n. A medical facility that is designated to treat severe physical trauma as a result of the specialized training of its staff and the availability of appropriate diagnostic and treatment tools. at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History in Mission Hills. The other two victims were taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County sheriff's Deputy Amos Cisneros. Witnesses said the women's car rear-ended a red pickup truck about 4 p.m. while heading south on Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling just north of San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the . Brenda Clark, 19, of Newhall, was driving the truck. She said she was traveling about 50 mph when she was hit, looked back and saw a brown sedan plunge off the road. Cisneros, who had just passed the area, said other motorists sounded their horns to alert him. The women were identified as Kathryn Cogdill, 84, Dorothy Monjoy, 75, and Ann Marie Savino, 85. |
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