CRASH, SPILL BOTTLES UP 14 FREEWAY.Byline: Holly Edwards Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Southbound 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. traffic was tied up for 15 hours after 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. flipped, spilling diesel fuel. Commuter traffic Noun 1. commuter traffic - traffic created by people going to or returning from work traffic - the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time backed up at least three miles by 7 a.m. Monday, nearly 12 hours after the crash, California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officials said. It took two tractor-trailer tow trucks nearly eight hours to remove the mangled big rig and its load of electrical conduit piping. It took 15 hours for a Caltrans crew to clean up about 150 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled when the big rig's fuel tank was ripped open in the crash, said Ivy Estrada, a Caltrans spokeswoman. ``They used sand bags to absorb the fuel on the road and put the contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. soil in drums to be hauled away,'' California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Watson said. 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 said the crash was caused by the big-rig driver making an unsafe lane change Sunday night near Spring Canyon Road. While traveling in the fast lane about 60 mph, the big-rig driver moved into the lane to his right and his truck collided with a 1997 Mercury Sable driven by a 43-year-old Canyon Country man, authorities said. The impact caused the Mercury to spin into the car-pool lane and collide with an Acura driven by a 23-year-old Thousand Oaks woman, said Watson, who investigated the crash. The Mercury then hit the concrete median and careened to the right, where it collided a second time with the big rig, Watson said. The impact caused the big rig to veer into a dirt embankment and flip over, officials said. All of the vehicles were seriously damaged but no injuries resulted from the crash, which happened about 7:30 p.m., Watson said. ``The big-rig driver never knew he hit anybody,'' Watson said. ``The people in the Mercury were very lucky.'' The driver of the big rig, Werner Stoppel, 58, of Fernley, Nev., was cited for making an unsafe lane change, the officer said. It was raining at the time of the collision, but weather was not believed to be a contributing factor, authorities said. All lanes were finally cleared at 11:30 a.m. Monday, officials said. |
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