BIG RIG CRASH HURTS 9 RV CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO TRUCKS.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer CASTAIC - Nine people were injured Wednesday in a motor home that was hit in the rear and became sandwiched between two big rigs Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. in Castaic. Two of the adults from the motor home - a married couple believed to be from Canada - were airlifted to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. The man, 46, was listed in critical condition as of Wednesday afternoon and was being treated in 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. . His 44-year-old wife was in stable condition with facial and chest injuries. Seven others in the motor home, including children, suffered minor injuries, while two were unharmed. Neither trucker was injured. The chain reaction began about 1:10 p.m. when the motor home slowed as it approached a truck stopped on the freeway for construction, and then it was hit in the rear by the second truck. The California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. will conduct an investigation to determine whether there was any negligence on truck driver Tony Lewis' part, said Doug Sweeney, 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 public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. officer. ``If it was an unfortunate incident, we will charge him for being at fault,'' Sweeney said. Lewis said he previously had a perfect driving record in his 26-year trucking career, but will call it quits quits adj. On even terms with by payment or requital: I am finally quits with the loan. [Middle English, probably alteration (influenced by Medieval Latin because of the crash. ``This is it for my trucking career. I vowed that if ever children were hurt, that'd be it,'' said Lewis, distraught. ``When those kids started crying, that was it for me.'' CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 4 -- color) Firefighters help the nine people who were injured in a motor home - two of them seriously - when it was hit in the rear by one truck and slammed into another truck Wednesday on the Golden State Freeway in Castaic. Three lanes, littered with wrecked vacation gear, were closed and traffic was backed up for hours Wednesday after nine people in a motor home, including several children, suffered injuries in a freeway crash at Castaic. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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