BRIEFLY COLLISION INJURES WOMAN, 2 CHILDREN.PALMDALE - A woman and two children were injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in a collision Thursday afternoon between a van and a pickup truck on Rancho ran·cho n. pl. ran·chos Southwestern U.S. 1. A hut or group of huts for housing ranch workers. 2. A ranch. Vista Boulevard, authorities said. The crash shut down Rancho Vista Boulevard at 10th Street East for more than an hour, tying up traffic around central Palmdale. Sheriff's deputies said the pickup truck driver told them he swerved to avoid a car that abruptly a·brupt adj. 1. Unexpectedly sudden: an abrupt change in the weather. 2. Surprisingly curt; brusque: an abrupt answer made in anger. 3. changed lanes in front of him. The pickup skidded across the center line, hitting the van coming the other way, deputies said. The woman, the van's driver, was flown by a Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La helicopter to a hospital. The children, girls age 11 and about 4 or 5, were taken by ambulances to a hospital. A teen-age boy in the van was not hurt, and neither was the pickup driver, deputies said. No information was immediately available on the extent of the victims' injuries. Their names were not immediately released. - Daily News |
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