BRIEFLY NOBODY KILLED IN TRAIN CRASHES.NORTH HOLLYWOOD - No serious injuries were reported Wednesday in separate crashes hours apart involving Metrolink trains and cars, authorities said. In the first crash, Metrolink Train 116 - going an estimated 79 mph - clipped a car on the tracks and spun the car around. But the woman inside was not hurt, authorities said. The train from Moorpark caught the rear 12 inches of the sedan at an intersection in the 7200 block of Bellaire Avenue, near Rayme Street in North Hollywood, at 3:10 p.m., said Brian Humphrey of the city fire department. The car was ``violently thrown about 20 feet'' and ``the driver was shaken, but amazingly uninjured,'' he said. None of the 50 or so passengers on the train was hurt. About four hours later, witnesses reported that a woman with five children - ranging in age from 6 months to 6 years - appeared to be trying to beat an Antelope Valley-bound Metrolink train at the Brand Boulevard crossing, near Truman Street in San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. , Humphrey said. The train clipped the rear of the compact car, Humphrey said, and the ``woman appeared to be shaken with minor injuries.'' He said she and the children were taken to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History in Mission Hills to be examined. - City News Service Smog rates first in hatred survey Smog was the ``winner'' in an informal poll asking 2,631 Angelenos what they hate more, smog or gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. , with 55 percent saying bad air is worse than traffic, the car-sharing company Flexcar reported Wednesday. Flexcar researchers conducted the survey over four Fridays during the summer concert series at California Plaza downtown, and 1,443 respondents called smog worse, while 1,188, or 45 percent, said they hate gridlock more. Officials of the company, which offers car-sharing services for about $10 a day in Burbank, downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or and other area locations, believes that reducing the number of cars on the road can help get rid of both smog and gridlock. ``When you get that close of a vote, that's still a pretty split decision in terms of what the problem is affecting Los Angeles the most,'' said Flexcar spokesman Dan Miller. - Daily News Trailhead to open at Corral corral a small fenced-in enclosure with high, wooden fences, suitable for holding cattle or horses. corral system a management system in which range cattle are put into corrals and fed hay for a period when the environment is most Canyon The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open will dedicate the new Corral Canyon Trailhead today. The trailhead provides easy access into the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. from the Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
The trailhead is located at 25623 Pacific Coast Highway between Malibu Canyon Road and Kanan Dume Road. - Daily News Jury convicts two in rapes, beatings SANTA ANA - Two young Anaheim men were convicted of 39 criminal counts each Wednesday for the rapes of two teenage girls and the beatings of their boyfriends in a remote canyon two summers ago. But the nine-man, three-woman jury deadlocked on all the sex assault charges against a third defendant. After deliberating over the course of two weeks, the panel convicted Erick Dominguez, 21, and Jesus Green, 18, of counts that included kidnapping, rape, assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. , child molestation Child molestation is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia. , car theft and robbery. - City News Service Shot fired at cop commuting to job INGLEWOOD - A man pulled up next to an Inglewood police officer on his way to work on the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. on Wednesday and shot at him, authorities said. The officer, whose name was not released, was driving north on the San Diego Freeway approaching Manchester Boulevard about 1:15 p.m., according to an Inglewood Police Department spokeswoman. The officer, who was not in uniform and was in his own car, saw the gun pointed at him and, fearing for his life, pulled out his own gun, the spokeswoman said. - City News Service |
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