COUPLE KILLED AFTER CAR RUNS STOP SIGN.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - A Lancaster couple died Tuesday night when their speeding compact car ran a stop sign, narrowly missed another vehicle and crashed into a tree. The impact left the 1995 Acura crumpled crum·ple v. crum·pled, crum·pling, crum·ples v.tr. 1. To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple. 2. To cause to collapse. v.intr. 1. around the tree, and firefighters had to pry the victims from the wreckage. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. The car had been traveling in excess of 80 mph along Lancaster Boulevard about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and failed to stop for a four-way stop Four´-way` stop n. 1. An intersection of two roads having stop signs at all four entry points. The usual rule for such intersections requires that those entering the intersection yield the right of way to vehicles entering before them. sign at 15th Street East, sheriff's deputies said. After running the stop sign, the car narrowly missed a vehicle pulling away from the stop sign for 15th Street East, deputies said. The Acura veered out of control and hit a large pine tree bordering a housing tract. The two were identified as 23-year-old William Reid William Reid may refer to:
Failure to stop at a stop sign was blamed for a second crash about 11 hours later that seriously injured a Lancaster motorist, California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officials said. Romani Saadd, 26, was flown 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 with a broken arm and leg and internal injuries after his 1996 Honda was hit by a big rig at Avenue H and 50th Street East, 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 officers said. Saadd's car had been traveling east about 9 a.m. Wednesday on Avenue H when it failed to stop for a stop sign at 50th Street East, CHP officers said. His car collided with the southbound big rig hauling trailers full of sand. The truck driver was not injured. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) A man and a woman, both believed to be Lancaster residents, died Tuesday when their car ran a stop sign, veered out of control and hit a tree on Lancaster Boulevard at 15th Street East. Paul Weatherman/Special to the Daily News |
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