CAR CRASHES LEAVE 2 HURT IN BURBANK.Byline: Troy Anderson Daily News Staff Writer A series of chain-reaction crashes Thursday afternoon at Burbank Boulevard and Ontario Street 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. two people and caused a car to spin in circles into businesses and parked vehicles, police said. The crashes began at 3:40 p.m. when a pickup traveling east on Burbank Boulevard rear-ended a Toyota Camry The Toyota Camry is a mid-size sedan assembled by Toyota in Georgetown, Kentucky; Altona, Victoria, Guangzhou, China and the original factory in Toyota City, Japan. In some markets, the top range Camry models are seen as executive cars. , which in turn struck a white Mercedes-Benz, said Burbank police Lt. Janice Lowers. The bumped Mercedes crossed the westbound lanes of Burbank Boulevard and hit Juana Guzman, who was sitting on a bus bench, Lowers said. The Mercedes, driven by Burbank resident Lida Giamela, pushed the bus bench and Guzman into the wall of a business, causing the Mercedes' air bag to inflate inflate - deflate , Lowers said. The driver ``panicked because she thought she had trapped someone between her car and the wall,'' Lowers said. ``She backed up trying to free the person and somehow the accelerator got stuck and she did circles in the intersection. In the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of that, she struck a backhoe, a couple of parked cars and another building before the car finally came to rest.'' Giamela and Guzman were transported to 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. County/USC Medical Center. Hospital officials would describe their conditions only as stable. No citations were issued. |
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