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ELDERLY DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH PASSENGER HAS SPINAL INJURIES.


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MOJAVE - An elderly 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,  man headed north with a friend for a fishing trip died when his truck hit a big-rig head-on in Kern County, a Highway Patrol highway patrol
n.
A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways.
 official said Wednesday.

Orlando Oscar Gaut, 81, died in the 9:40 a.m. crash Tuesday on a two- lane stretch of Highway 14 near Red Rock Canyon There are more than 30 parks and canyons in the U.S. named Red Rock Canyon: Parks
  • Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area; Clark County, Nevada
  • Red Rock Canyon State Park (California); Kern County, California
. Gaut's family was en route to Kern County on Wednesday morning to handle arrangements, said John Van Rensselaer Van Rens·se·laer   , Killian or Kiliaen 1595-1644.

Dutch merchant who was a founder of the Dutch West India Company (1621) and established Rensselaerswyck (1635), the only successful privately held colony in America, on his estate in
, supervising deputy coroner.

Gaut's passenger, Maurice Marcotte, 76, of Davey, Fla., suffered major spinal injuries in the crash and was airlifted to Kern Medical Center, 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 Steven Hunsaker said.

Gaut, driving a 2003 Ford F250 and towing a small fishing boat, inexplicably drifted into oncoming southbound lanes near Red Rock Inyokern Road north of Mojave, Hunsaker said.

The driver of a tractor-trailer rig, Robert Dancel, 43, of Anaheim, tried unsuccessfully to move to the right shoulder to avoid the collision, Hunsaker said. Dancel, hauling 40,000 pounds of plastic, was not injured.
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Date:Aug 19, 2004
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