COLLISION WRECKS COMMUTE FIERY CRASH LEAVES ONE DEAD, I-5 JAMMED.Byline: BRAD A. GREENBERG Staff Writer SUN VALLEY -- A fiery crash Monday on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. left a North Hollywood man dead and thousands of drivers mired mire n. 1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. 2. Deep slimy soil or mud. 3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty. v. in bumper-to-bumper traffic throughout the afternoon into the evening commute, authorities said. Three other people suffered minor injuries in the wreck and were taken to local hospitals, police said. The 11:45 a.m. collision occurred when a three-axel bobtail bobtail a short tail, either natural or docked. Seen naturally in some species, e.g. bobcat, and some dog breeds, e.g. Schipperke and Old English sheepdog. bobtail disease truck swerved into the left lane to avoid slowed traffic, possibly because of a car fire in the northbound lanes of the 5, California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. Sgt. Kelly Olson said. The bobtail smashed into a big rig Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. , and the two trucks began leaking diesel fuel and caught fire. All lanes remained closed until one was opened at 2:25 p.m., with traffic diverted onto the southbound Hollywood (170) Freeway. Not until about 5:25 p.m. were two more lanes opened, jamming traffic from the junction of the Foothill (210) Freeway and on the Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway into Granada Hills. A report on the 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 traffic Web site stated someone had seen children tossing marble bricks off the Sheldon Street overpass and onto the freeway. CHP investigators could not provide more details about the report. The driver of the big rig, identified only as a 58-year-old North Hollywood man, died in the wreck and was found by firefighters after the flames engulfing the truck were extinguished. The trucks leaked about 100 gallons of diesel and sparked a small brush fire along the 5 south of Sheldon Street, which firefighters knocked down within 20 minutes, Olson said. brad.greenberg(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3634 CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Drivers wait by their cars as traffic comes to a standstill on the southbound I-5 by the Lankershim Boulevard off-ramp after a fiery collision involving two trucks that left one driver dead in Sun Valley on Monday. Below, LAFD LAFD Los Angeles Fire Department LAFD Los Alamos Fire Department LAFD London Association of Funeral Directors (UK) firefighters look at the remains of the truck collision while another firefighter douses hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. from a brush fire that the incident caused. Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer Mike Meadows/Special to the Daily News (3 -- color) Drivers get out of their cars, above, on southbound Interstate 5 as the freeway is shut down after a bobtail truck rear-ended a big rig and caught fire, below. The driver of the bobtail truck was killed and the freeway was shut down for the cleanup and investigation. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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