BABY KILLED IN VAN CRASH INFANT IN CAR SEAT, THREE SIBLINGS THROWN FROM OVERTURNING AUTO.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer ACTON - A 6-month-old baby was killed and her 4-year-old brother and three older sisters injured when a Rosamond family's minivan overturned Monday morning 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. . The Plymouth Voyager The Plymouth Voyager and Plymouth Grand Voyager were minivans marketed by DaimlerChrysler (they were sold by the Chrysler Corporation until 1998). The Voyager was originally a full-size van from 1974 to 1983, but the name was used again for a minivan in 1984. veered into the dirt median before overturning and rolling at least twice, tossing out the baby in his car seat and throwing three of the older children out as well. ``This was a mass casualty. It was a bad TC (traffic collision), an extremely bad TC,'' 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 Fire Inspector Mike Brown said. Six-month-old Arron Valdiva was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which occurred about 7 a.m. on the northbound freeway near Red Rover Mine Road. Jeanette Valdiva, 13, was reported in critical condition at Antelope Valley Hospital with head injuries. The other three children and mother, Bertha Valdiva, also were injured, officials said. David, 4, suffered a skull fracture skull fracture, n a rupture or break in the cranial bones. skull fracture Orthopedics A fracture of one or more cranial bones, caused by MVAs, falls, assault, sports, occupational accidents and other forms of blunt trauma that officials said is not life-threatening. Jennifer, 8, and Elizabeth, 17, suffered facial cuts. Their mother, a bilingual instructional aide at Hamilton Elementary School in Rosamond, suffered a broken arm. David and Jennifer were flown by helicopter to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Jeanette by another helicopter to Antelope Valley Hospital. Elizabeth and their mother were taken to Lancaster Community Hospital This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. . ``For all four that were thrown out, we either don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if they were in belts or we don't feel they were,'' California Highway Patrol Officer Scott Weldy said. Officials don't know why the van ran off the road, Weldy said. ``There's a little curve in the freeway there,'' Weldy said. ``The way (the driver) explained it, she was driving down the road and then the van was in the divider and went out of control.'' Two American Medical Response American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is the largest private ambulance provider in the United States. AMR and EmCare are wholly owned subsidiaries of EMSC L.P., an emergency management company held by the investment firm Onex. AMR is based out of Greenwood Village, Colorado. ambulance company employees on their way to work and an off-duty Los Angeles County firefighter stopped to help the injured until firefighters arrived. The crash backed up commuter traffic for miles. 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 officers took the baby's two-piece child seat and will examine it to try to determine if it had broken or if it wasn't strapped in properly. The base of the seat came to rest a couple hundred feet from the baby in the rest of the seat. The CHP's Fatal Accident Investigative Team responded to the crash site, and the department's Multi-Discipliniary Accident Investigation Team was called to examine the wrecked van. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color in AV edition only) A California Highway Patrol officer investigates the scene of an Antelope Valley Freeway crash Monday. A baby died and five others in a Rosamond family were injured. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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