DEADLY DAY TWO KILLED, THREE HURT IN SEPARATE COLLISIONS.Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - Two people were killed in separate crashes hours apart in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. area Saturday. Acton resident Norman Kapton, 53, died in front of the Halfway House halfway house /half·way house/ (haf´wa hous) a residence for patients (e.g., mental patients, drug addicts, alcoholics) who do not require hospitalization but who need an intermediate degree of care until they can return to the community. Cafe shortly after 9 a.m. when the white pickup truck in which he was riding made a turn and was hit by another vehicle in the 15000 block of 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 , authorities said. The driver of the white truck, Steven White Steven White (born June 15, 1981 in League City, Texas) is a right-handed pitcher in the New York Yankees Minor League system, currently pitching for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. , 55, was taken by ambulance to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital with moderate head and chest injuries, as was the driver of the other truck, 30-year-old Jeffrey Burton of Quartz Hill, officials reported. White's other passenger, Billy Driver, 44, was airlifted to the same hospital with major head and chest injuries and a broken leg, authorities said. He was listed in critical condition. Sgt. Ben Dibene of the California Highway Patrol said investigators were looking into the cause of the crash. ``Both of the cars were totaled,'' he said. ``This is the first time we've had one of these in a long time up there.'' The collision closed closed Sierra Highway for an hour. Details of the second crash were not immediately released, but Dibene said one person died just after noon on the northbound 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. , about one mile north of the Shadow Pines Boulevard exit. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) A 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 officer gathers evidence at the scene of a crash on Sierra Highway in which one person was killed Saturday morning. (2) Firefighters look over the wreckage of one of the trucks involved in a fatal Saturday morning collision near the Halfway House Cafe on Sierra Highway. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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