COLD SNAP\19 crashes reported on icy roadways.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Leftover snow and below-freezing temperatures brought headaches to motorists contending with icy roads but joy to Lake Hughes and Neenach schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school whose classes were canceled Monday. Nineteen accidents - none resulting in anything more than minor injuries - were caused by vehicles skidding on icy spots on the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. between 2 and 11 a.m. Monday from Avenue S in Palmdale to Red Rover Red Rover (also known as Bullrush; Forcing the City Gates; Octopus Tag; and British Bulldog) is an outdoor game played primarily by children on playgrounds. "Red Rover" was very popular into the 1970s. Mine Road in Acton, officials said. "Some of the bridges had like 2 inches of ice on them," said California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. Officer Miguel Siordia. Authorities believe the ice is likely to return today, as temperatures are forecast to drop overnight into the 20s and 30s. Monday's low temperature was recorded in Lancaster at 31. The snow also contributed to a crash which tied up Highway 58 traffic east of Tehachapi from Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. through Monday and was expected to continue causing problems today as well. Traveling in heavy snow around 7 p.m. Sunday, a tractor-trailer truck carrying nearly 20 tons of hazardous chemicals - including nitric and phosphoric acids, and potassium hydroxide potassium hydroxide, chemical compound with formula KOH. Pure potassium hydroxide forms white, deliquescent crystals. For commercial and laboratory use it is usually in the form of white pellets. - skidded off the road near Sand Canyon, east of Tehachapi, and overturned. Because of the possibility that the barrels of chemicals might rupture, authorities diverted traffic onto the old highway paralleling the freeway between Sand Canyon Road and Tehachapi. Freezing temperatures and off-and-on snow hindered workers trying to unload the barrels from the overturned trailer, fogging up their face masks and freezing the compressors that supply them air for breathing. The barrels weren't expected to be removed until sometime today. "It's bitterly cold up there," Mojave 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 Area Commander Fred Herman said. "The guys doing the moving have to be in protective gear in case any of the drums rupture." The truck driver was not injured, and no evacuations were ordered. Icy roads also caused the closure Monday of Neenach School - 25 miles west of Lancaster - and Lake Hughes School because of officials' fears about cars and buses skidding on icy roads. "There was a lot of black ice," said Westside Union School District Superintendent District Superintendent may be:
Icy roads also kept school buses from picking up youngsters in outlying areas of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley west of 140th Street West, west of Lake Hughes and in the Juniper Hills area. Some roads were closed by ice and snow early Monday around Leona Valley, delaying the arrival of a handful of students, but Leona Valley School stayed open, officials said. Monday's ice crash total could have been higher. With extra officers called in from other areas, Antelope Valley California Highway Patrol officers escorted vehicles through in groups at 20 mph between Avenue S and Red Rover Mine Road from about 1 to 6 a.m. while Caltrans trucks spread sand over icy spots. Some motorists had been traveling the icy freeway at 50 to 70 mph before the escort started, Siordia said. CHP officers halted the escorts at 6 a.m. because the arrival of morning commuters had congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. the freeway enough to force speeds down to 20 mph or so, he said. CHP officers started the escorts after a double collision about 12:20 a.m. Monday on the northbound freeway near Angeles Forest Highway The Angeles Forest Highway traverses the Angeles National Forest and connects the Los Angeles basin to the Antelope Valley by going up and over the San Gabriel Mountains. The highway is variously known as County Road N-3 or FH-59 or the Palmdale cutoff. It is about 25 miles long. . A Chevrolet sedan and a Mercury sedan collided after spinning on ice and a Toyota Camry coming up from behind slid on the ice and hit the Mercury, pushing it into the Chevrolet again, Siordia said. The Mercury's driver, Carolyn Ewings of Lancaster, was reported in stable but guarded condition Monday at Desert Palms Community Hospital. Two other accidents Monday morning on Highway 138, and another on Angeles Crest Highway The Angeles Crest Highway is a two-lane (one lane of travel in each direction) segment of California State Route 2 in the United States. The road is 66 miles in length, with its western terminus at the intersection at Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge and its eastern , were blamed like the freeway crashes on "black ice" - a thin sheet of ice that forms on roadways and is hard to see because it takes on the color of the underlying pavement. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo (1--ran in AV and SAC--color) Miles Gothridge, 11, throws a snowball at his friend Chris Barber, 12. The Lake Elizabeth boys' school was closed due to the icy roads. (2--ran in SAC and AV--caption only in SAC--color in AV only) Officer Gayla Cowan and a tow truck driver examine a car that rolled off the 14 Freeway on Monday. (3--AV only) Brittany Gothridge, 10, hits her brother Miles with a snowball. Sunny skies and highs from the mid-40s to the low 50s are in today's forecast. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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