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BRIEFLY WOMAN RESCUED FROM COMING TRAIN.


PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962.  - An elderly woman was rescued by a passerby from her car moments before it was hit by a freight train, officials said Monday.

The woman had turned off Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling  onto Avenue P about 5:30 p.m. Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week.  but kept turning onto the adjoining railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more.  tracks, where her car got stuck, deputies said.

A passing motorist saw the car and noticed that an elderly woman was behind the wheel. He stopped to talk to her, saw a train coming and pulled her from the car, deputies said.

Neither the woman nor the rescuer was hurt.

- Daily News

Shooting victim in A.V. identified

PALMDALE - A woman found shot to death in a Palmdale home's driveway, where she had apparently been chased by her assailant, has been identified as a 21-year-old Ventura County resident.

Brandi Nichole Oliveres, 21, of Oak View, near Ojai, may have gotten out of a car, run down the driveway and climbed a chain-link fence before she was shot near the home's garage, detectives said.

Her body was discovered just before 10 a.m. Sunday in the 700 block of east Barrel Springs Road, a neighborhood of custom homes overlooking o·ver·look  
tr.v. o·ver·looked, o·ver·look·ing, o·ver·looks
1.
a. To look over or at from a higher place.

b.
 Lake Palmdale. Neighbors told deputies they heard noises that may have been gunshots several hours earlier.

- Daily News
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