DEPUTY STRIKES CAR ON WAY TO CALL DRIVER TAKEN TO NEWHALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.Byline: Heather MacDonald Staff Writer VALENCIA - A sheriff's deputy racing Monday to a car crash in Valencia collided with a 1970 Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and on Newhall Ranch Road at McBean Parkway, injuring its driver. After being cut out of his black vintage sports car by paramedics, driver John Hewitt John Hewitt is the name of:
``It's tragic thing that just sometimes happens,'' Arnold said. Deputy Steve Hemmer hem 1 n. 1. An edge or border on a piece of cloth, especially a finished edge, as for a garment or curtain, made by folding an edge under and stitching it down. 2. was shaken up but not injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the collision, which occurred while he was en route in a black-and-white Ford Explorer
The Ford Explorer is a mid-size sport utility vehicle sold in North America and built by the Ford Motor Company since 1990. to aid a driver whose car hit a curb and flipped upside down in a drainage ditch on Newhall Ranch Road near Copper Hill Road, Arnold said. Hemmer was traveling west on Newhall Ranch with his lights and sirens Sirens with song, bird-women lure sailors to death. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] See : Enchantment sirens their singing so sweet, it lured sailors to their death. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 48] See : Singer on when he approached McBean and waited for the cars, including a large white work van with no windows, to stop before proceeding, Arnold said. However, the deputy did not see or hear the Corvette, going south on McBean Parkway, because the large van obscured his vision, Arnold said. Hewitt, who was traveling about 50 mph when his car was hit, told investigators that he didn't see or hear the Explorer's sirens or lights, perhaps because of a combination of noise from the old car's engine and the van, Arnold said. The investigation into the accident is continuing, Arnold said. Heather MacDonald, (661) 257-5257 heather.macdonald(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Driver John Hewitt is extracted by firefighters from his 1970 Corvette after his car was struck by a sheriff's department Ford Explorer on Monday. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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