FATAL A.V. COLLISION FIERY CRASH KILLS TWO BROTHERS.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer LANCASTER -- Two brothers in their 60s have been identified as the men killed in a fiery crash 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 north of Lancaster. The brothers' Chevrolet 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 sports car was traveling at high speed about 9 p.m. Tuesday when a pickup truck pulled out in front of it from a stop sign for Avenue G, California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers said. The Corvette hit the pickup's left rear corner, and both vehicles caught fire. The pickup truck's driver escaped with minor injuries. Investigators are trying to determine how fast the Corvette was traveling, and whether the crash was the fault of its driver or of the pickup's driver who pulled away from the stop sign, officials said. ``That's yet to be determined, because the speed plays a part in it,'' Officer Henry Ross Captain Henry Ross (1829 - 5 December, 1854) was a Canadian gold miner at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and was known on the goldfields as the 'bridegroom' of the miners flag, the Southern Cross, the Eureka Flag. said. 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 officers identified the Corvette's driver as 62-year-old Terry Noll of Jacksonville, Fla., and the passenger as his brother, Philip Noll, 65, of Rosamond. 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 coroner's officials said they have not confirmed the identities of the men, because their bodies were badly burned in the crash. Formal identification will probably require dental records, officials said. CHP officials said pickup driver Sergio Almendariz, 43, of Littlerock told them he stopped for the stop sign for Avenue G. He saw the Corvette in the distance and thought it was safe to cross Sierra Highway, officials said. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 3 -- color) California Highway Patrol officers investigate the charred remnants of a crash on Sierra Highway at Avenue G on Tuesday night, when a pickup truck, above, pulled out in front of a speeding Corvette, at bottom. The Corvette's driver and passenger, two brothers, died in the fiery collision. The driver of the truck was transported to a local hospital. Paul Weatherman/Special to the Daily News |
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