BRIEFLY FATHER, SON KILLED IN AUTO CRASH.LANCASTER - A father and son from Bell Gardens died when their car ran off a two-lane road and crashed into a utility pole A utility pole, telegraph pole, telephone pole, power pole, or telegraph post is a post or pole upon which telecommunication network equipment is situated. , California Highway Patrol highway patroln. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officials said Monday. The dead men were identified as Eugene Wittenberg, 76, the driver, and Robert Wittenberg, 42. The Wittenbergs died about 3:30 p.m. Sunday on Avenue E east of 30th Street East. Their 1991 Chevrolet was heading west at an unknown speed when it drifted off the pavement and hit a utility pole, sheering the pole off at the ground, 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 said. The car overturned, throwing out both men, who were not wearing seat belts. The crash left high-voltage lines laying along the ground. Edison officials said electricity was knocked out briefly to more than 280 customers. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. - Daily News Motorcyclist hit by spare tire MOJAVE - A motorcyclist was severely injured Monday when a spare tire fell off a vehicle, bounced across Highway 58's center divider divider See European currency quotation. and hit him, California Highway Patrol officials said. The motorcyclist, whose name was not immediately released, was flown by helicopter to a hospital. The crash shut down the eastbound east·bound adj. Going toward the east. eastbound Adjective going towards the east Adj. 1. Highway 58 for more than 30 minutes after the 1 p.m. Monday accident near Sand Canyon Road. - Daily News Teenagers sought in arson blaze PALMDALE - Arson investigators asked for the public's help in identifying a half-dozen youths seen around a partially constructed house destroyed by a fire. The fire, reported about 5:20 p.m. Saturday in the 40600 block of Champion Way near the Rancho Vista Golf Course, did $100,000 damage. Anyone with information about the fire is asked to call Arson/Explosives Sgt. John Ament a·ment n. A person whose intellectual capacity remains undeveloped. at (661) 940-7881. - Daily News Man with gun taken off bus PALMDALE - Sheriff's deputies pulled over an Antelope Valley Transit Authority Antelope Valley Transit Authority is the transit agency serving the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster and their suburbs. Antelope Valley Transit Authority is operated under contract by Veolia Transport, and is affiliated and offers connecting services with Metro and Metrolink. bus Monday morning to take into custody a man they had been told was carrying a gun. Deputies said they had been told a man standing on Palmdale Boulevard and Ninth Street East had a gun in his pocket. Before deputies got there, the man got onto a bus. Deputies pulled over the bus and took the man into custody. - Daily News |
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