FATAL CRASH 2ND IN MONTH.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer Two men were killed Tuesday when their armored car carrying $200,000 careened off the 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. , just a mile from the site of a similar crash that killed five motorists last month. In fact, the earlier accident prompted the state Transportation Department to hasten plans for a guard rail along the remote stretch of freeway in the Acton and Agua Dulce Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
The cause of Tuesday's 6:40 p.m. crash has not been determined, said Officer Doug Sweeney, a California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. spokesman. Killed when their vehicle slammed into a hillside off the southbound freeway were driver Todd Andrew West Andrew West (Chinese name 魏安 Wèi Ān, born 1960) is an English linguist. He initially devoted himself to studying Chinese novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties. , 29, a Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. resident who was living with a sister in Norco, and security guard Kenneth Leroy Diekmann Sr., a 56-year-old retired Inglewood police officer who lived in Riverside, coroner's Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said Wednesday. No other vehicles were involved, officials said. Because of the large amount of cash in the vehicle, the 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 contacted Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide investigators to determine if foul play had been involved. Sweeney said the driver may have suffered a heart attack or been traveling too fast for the curve in the highway north of Escondido Canyon Road, Sweeney said. There were no witnesses to the crash, but one motorist told investigators that the armored car had passed him at about 70 to 75 mph. The vehicle crossed a ravine and slammed into a hillside. Firefighters used the hydraulic ``jaws of life'' in a futile effort to help the men. The money, from automated teller machines automated teller machine (ATM), device used by bank customers to process account transactions. Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with information on a magnetic strip. , remained intact in the armored van. The van was owned by Vantech West Armor of Garden Grove. The crash was a mile north of the site where five young Antelope Valley residents were killed April 8 when their speeding car went off the road. A month later, Caltrans announced plans for 1,260 feet of guard rail in two spots along that stretch of freeway. Sweeney said there is no way to say if the guard rail would have saved the two men killed Tuesday. ``Obviously, it would have prevented them from going over the embankment, but it would have knocked them into the roadway and anything could have happened,'' he said. |
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