FOUR YOUTHS HURT IN AUTO CRASH.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer Four teens Four Teens is a Barbershop quartet that won the 1952 SPEBSQSA international competition. Preceded by Schmitt Brothers SPEBSQSA International Quartet Champions 1952 Succeeded by Vikings were hospitalized early Friday after their car careened off the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. , briefly shutting down one of California's most traveled roads this holiday weekend. The four boys, three 16-year-olds and one who is 15, were injured when the car they were traveling in abruptly turned across the southbound lanes, through the guardrail and down a 150- to 200-foot embankment, said Officer Doug Sweeney, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. . The names of the four, all San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. residents, were not released because they are minors and a criminal investigation is under way, Sweeney said. A loaded .45-caliber handgun was found in the youths' 1999 compact car, along with two illegal butterfly knives and various drug paraphernalia drug paraphernalia Controlled paraphernalia Substance abuse As defined in a regulatory context, DP is a hypodermic syringe, needle, metal or plastic (snorting) tube, or other instrument or implement or combination adapted for the administration of controlled , he said. The crash occurred about 6:30 a.m. on the southbound freeway north of Templin Highway in the Castaic area. The driver was traveling 80 to 85 mph. Three of the youths were taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital and one to Antelope Valley Hospital. Details about their conditions were unavailable, although Sweeney said one of the boys suffered a broken neck. Later in the day, a woman and two babies were hospitalized with minor injuries in a three-vehicle crash on 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. north of Via Princessa. None of those injuries was serious. The accidents kicked off a busy day on both local freeways as motorists headed out of town for the Memorial Day weekend. Sweeney said 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 has beefed up forces through Monday night in hopes of limiting crashes as well as drunk driving. Eighty percent of the local patrol force will be on duty. CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO A woman and two babies were hurt in a crash on the Antelope Valley Freeway. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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