DEADLY CORNER TO GET LIGHT SIGNAL SPEEDED UP FOR INTERSECTION WHERE WOMAN DIED.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer QUARTZ HILL - Friends and family of a 26-year-old woman killed in a crash at a Quartz Hill intersection scored a victory when 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. County supervisors voted to speed up installation of a traffic signal. The board backed Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich's motion to order the county Department of Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. to put in the signal by March 2005, a full year before public works officials had planned. ``They had it slated for more than a year away and that just didn't seem good enough,'' said Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich's Press Deputy Tony Bell. ``We wish it could have been done before this tragedy.'' April Duarte, a Forecast Homes employee, was leaving a new housing tract Nov. 17 when she SUV rolled past a stop sign on 45th Street West at Avenue N and was broadsided by a dump truck traveling on Avenue N. She was killed instantly. Friends and family members immediately began making phone calls to city and county officials to have something done about the intersection. The intersection is shared by the county and the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster. ``I only went that way once and feared for my life turning left,'' said Alice Baker Alice Baker (July 28, 1898 - March 2, 2006) was a British World War I service veteran. She died at the age of 107. She was the last known female British World War I veteran in the UK (one still remains in Canada). , a longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective family friend. ``Something needed to be done.'' The supervisors' decision was a bittersweet bittersweet, name for two unrelated plants, belonging to different families, both fall-fruiting woody vines sometimes cultivated for their decorative scarlet berries. victory. ``It's not going to bring April back,'' Baker said. ``We know that. But if it saves just one person's life then that's all that matters.'' Baker was one of dozens of people who called to ask that something be done at the intersection. Baker began making thank you calls soon after hearing the news. ``I called the supervisor's office and said thank you and God bless bless tr.v. blessed or blest , bless·ing, bless·es 1. To make holy by religious rite; sanctify. 2. To make the sign of the cross over so as to sanctify. 3. To invoke divine favor upon. you,'' Baker said. ``I didn't know what else to say. What can you say when you're in tears?'' Duarte was in charge of land planning and acquisition for Forecast Homes and had been named Associate of the Quarter a week before her death. Previously she had worked at the California State University, Bakersfield As of fall 2002, some 7,700 undergraduate and graduate students attended CSUB, at either the main campus in Bakersfield or the satellite campus, Antelope Valley Center in Lancaster, California of Los Angeles County. , campus in Lancaster. ``She loved what she was doing for Forecast (Homes),'' Baker said. ``She would talk about what she was doing and she would just glow.'' Bell said the funding for the signal will come from the road improvement funds of the Department of Public Works. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) A monument Anything by which the memory of a person, thing, idea, art, science or event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. In real-property to a woman killed in a traffic crash stands at Avenue N and 45th Street West, where a traffic signal will be installed. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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