FIVE DIE WHEN CAR PLUNGES OFF ROAD; AGUA DULCE CRASH BLAMED ON SPEED.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Four young men and a teen-age girl were killed Thursday when their speeding car 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. , slammed into a mountain and rolled about 50 feet down an embankment. Three carloads of friends stopped on the freeway near Vasquez Rocks Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 905 acre (3 km²) northern Los Angeles County, California USA park acquired by LA County government in the 1970s. It is in the Agua Dulce vicinity between the Antelope Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley just north of Los Angeles and seen easily County Park and ran back to the crash scene, where three of the victims had been thrown from the Acura Legend The Acura Legend, sold as the Honda Legend outside the U.S., Canada, and parts of China, was a sporty luxury vehicle sold from 1986 to 1995 as both a sedan and a coupe. , with a fourth passenger and the driver trapped inside. ``The fourth car was trying to catch up with the other three cars when the driver lost control,'' said Assistant Chief Greg Augusta of the California Highway Patrol's Southern Division. After the crash, ``the drivers and passengers of the other vehicles came running back up the freeway.'' Four passengers died at the scene, all from Palmdale. They were identified by 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 as a 20-year-old man, two 18-year-olds and John Kenneth Chu, 25. All were graduates of Palmdale's Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to: In the United States:
The driver, a 17-year-old girl from Highland, was taken by helicopter to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia. She died shortly after undergoing surgery, said hospital spokeswoman Janice Newbold. Witnesses told investigators the four cars were racing south on the freeway about 1 p.m. when the rear car changed from the middle to the right lane in an apparent effort to catch up. The black 1989 Acura Legend skidded on the pavement, veered onto the dirt shoulder and sailed off the side of the road into a hillside. Investigators estimated the car was traveling 85 to 90 mph. About a dozen other young adults had been traveling in the three other cars, which included a Honda Accord The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and a Ford Escort Over the years, the name 'Ford Escort' has been used for several models. For more information, see:
Ford Motor Company , heading from the Antelope Valley to Long Beach. ``We do know that everybody knows everybody - they're all acquainted,'' said Officer Doug Sweeney of the CHP's Newhall station. ``We know that there was some type of function that they were going to, but we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what it was,'' Sweeney said. ``It wasn't a school function.'' A pair of off-duty CHP officers who happened upon the scene shortly after the crash stopped and tried to help, Sweeney added. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, map PHOTO (1 -- color in AV and SAC editions) A CHP investigator examines the scene of a fatal car crash Thursday below the Antelope Valley Freeway in Agua Dulce. (2 -- color -- ran in SAC edition only) Coroner's officials and firefighters remove the body of one of five people killed Thursday when a speeding car plunged from the Antelope Valley Freeway in Agua Dulce. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News Map: (ran in SAC and AV editions only) Site of crash |
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