BRIEFLY ONE DEAD, ONE HURT IN AUTO CRASH.VAN NUYS - An 18-year-old man died and a 26-year-old woman was injured in a fiery early morning crash at Vanowen Street and Woodman Avenue, authorities said. The unidentified man was driving his Nissan Altima
The Altima (pronounced ALL-timah) is a mid-size car (formerly compact) currently being manufactured by the Japanese automaker Nissan, and is arguably a continuation of the east on Vanowen when he hit a 2000 Toyota Echo The Toyota Echo is a model name previously used by the Toyota Motor Corporation on the export version of two different models.
The Altima caught fire, and police nearby used extinguishers to put out the flames. The male victim died at the scene, and the woman was transported 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 in stable condition, police said. - Daily News Valley car chase ends in Valencia VALENCIA - A man driving a white Ford Taurus Not to be confused with Ford Taunus. The Ford Taurus is currently a full-size, front-wheel drive or all wheel drive automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in North America. led authorities on a pursuit Tuesday afternoon from Van Nuys to Valencia, where the suspect stopped at Magic Mountain Parkway and surrendered at 5:46 p.m. The pursuit started about 4:59 p.m. near Woodley Avenue and Saticoy Street near Van Nuys Airport Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY, FAA LID: VNY) is a public airport located in Van Nuys, California in the San Fernando Valley, within the Los Angeles city limits. . - Staff and Wire Services Smile! You're on traffic camera! WINNETKA - Cameras will photograph the license plates of drivers who run red lights at Roscoe Boulevard and De Soto de So·to , Hernando or Fernando 1496?-1542. Spanish explorer who landed in Florida in 1539 with 600 men and set out to search for the fabled riches of the north. Avenue, the third Valley intersection and the 12th in 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. with the sensors, officials said Tuesday. The Roscoe-De Soto cameras are scheduled to be activated at 9 a.m. Thursday as part of a pilot program that will result in cameras at 16 intersections by December 2003, officials said. The other Valley intersections with cameras are Sherman Way at Winnetka Avenue and Victory Boulevard at Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). . The intersection of Van Nuys Boulevard and Nordhoff Street will be getting cameras in a few weeks, the final Valley intersection covered by the pilot program, said Capt. Greg Meyer of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Valley Traffic Division.
- Daily News A new meaning to 'flower power' SAN MARINO - Hold your nose. The infamous giant stinky flower was beginning to unleash its rotten stench Tuesday evening at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. The freakish-looking Amorphophallus titanum, known to Indonesians as the ``corpse flower,'' was beginning to bloom, said library spokeswoman Susan Turner-Lowe. - Associated Press Padilla seeking kid-safety events In the wake of a number of high-profile child abductions across the country, City Council President Alex Padilla introduced a motion Tuesday to get more child fingerprinting and photographing events at the city's 18 community police stations. The motion would ask the Los Angeles Police Department to come up with a plan and then report back to the council's Public Safety Committee. - Daily News Weiss: ID unsafe intersections Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss called upon the Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday to do a better job of reporting which streets in the city have most traffic crashes. Lack of this sort of information keeps the city from taking steps to make those areas safer, he said. - Daily News Repair leads to jolt of electricity SUN VALLEY - A Burbank man was seriously injured Tuesday evening as he attempted to repair a swimming pool motor at a friend's home in Sun Valley, officials said. The man said he had one hand on a circuit breaker circuit breaker, electric device that, like a fuse, interrupts an electric current in a circuit when the current becomes too high. The advantage of a circuit breaker is that it can be reset after it has been tripped; a fuse must be replaced after it has been used when he was hit by a potentially lethal jolt of electricity in the palm of his right hand, the Los Angeles City Fire Department reported. Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said the man was taken to Saint Joseph Medical Center. - Daily News |
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