CRASH VICTIM IDENTIFIED AS SCHOOLTEACHER.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - A woman killed when her car overturned on Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling was identified Thursday as Lake Los Angeles School The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. teacher Karen Johnson. Johnson, a 31-year-old 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. resident, died at Antelope Valley Hospital about 90 minutes after the 6:30 a.m. Wednesday crash on northbound Sierra Highway near Pearblossom Highway. ``She was pronounced dead at the hospital from head trauma sustained in the crash,'' said California Highway Patrol Officer Scott Weldy. Johnson was driving north on Sierra Highway in a 2000 Honda Civic when for unknown reasons the car drifted onto the highway's shoulder and hit a road sign. She tried to steer back onto the pavement but the car slid sideways across the highway, rolling over and coming to rest on its wheels in a drainage ditch. Johnson was trapped for several minutes before firefighters were able to free her from the nearly crushed car. A Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La rescue helicopter flew Johnson to Antelope Valley Hospital, where she was pronounced dead just before 8 a.m. 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 officials said they believe Johnson was headed to work when she crashed. She had worked in the Keppel Union School District since July 1998. The southbound lanes of Pearblossom Highway were closed for more than an hour, officials said. |
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