BIG RIG HITS, KILLS DRIVER OF COMPACT.Byline: Stacy Brown Daily News Staff Writer A 73-year-old 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. man was killed Monday after he lost control of his compact car and was rammed by a big rig 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 transition road from 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. to 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. . Mark Urgello was pronounced dead at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia shortly after the 9:30 p.m. crash, California Highway Patrol Officer Shirley Gaines said. Police said Urgello was traveling north in the truck lanes on the Golden State Freeway at about 50 mph when he apparently tried to switch to the other freeway. ``He had directions taped to his dashboard,'' 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, ``so it appears that at the last moment he swerved across the center area to go to the Antelope Valley Freeway. He appeared to lose control, and when he struck a guardrail he veered left and was broadsided by the truck.'' Authorities said the directions taped to the dashboard of Urgello's 1990 Toyota Corolla were for an address off Soledad Canyon Road, accessible from the Antelope Valley Freeway. ``We don't suspect alcohol or any other substance to have played a part,'' Sweeney said. ``It just appears that he wasn't sure how to get where he was going.'' The driver of the truck was not injured. |
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