GIRL, 10, DIES AFTER CAR CRASH.Byline: Daily News TEHACHAPI - A 10-year-old girl has died of injuries suffered in a head-on crash that killed a Caltrans worker and seriously injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. another Caltrans worker and the girl's mother and sister, authorities said Friday. Abigail Ramirez of Tehachapi died in Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. Medical Center on Wednesday, two days after the crash in which her mother's van went out of control on rain-slick Highway 202 and hit a Caltrans truck, officials said. Abigail was thrown from the van and was hit by a third vehicle, California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officials said. Also killed in the 1:16 p.m. Monday crash was Jackie Aldridge, 51, of Tehachapi, who was driving the Caltrans utility-bed pickup truck. Co-worker Mario Medina, 34, of Tehachapi, was flown by helicopter to Loma Linda Loma Linda may refer to:
Nancy Ramirez, 45, of Tehachapi, the van driver, was flown by helicopter to Kern Medical Center with Abigail. Six-year-old Roquel Ramirez was flown to Loma Linda, 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 said. CHP officials said the Caltrans truck was westbound on Highway 202 west of Schout Road when Ramirez's 2000 Toyota van The Toyota Town Ace/Lite Ace was a vehicle made by Toyota and distributed worldwide in a multitude of different versions. It featured a sharply sloped front, in contrast to the upright flat front common in other similar Japanese vans. , coming the other direction, drifted onto the right dirt shoulder, then veered across the road and into the Caltrans truck. The impact knocked Ramirez partially out of her van and tossed out the two girls, none of whom was wearing seat belts, CHP officers said. Medina was thrown from the Caltrans truck, even though he was wearing a seat belt. Aldridge was pinned behind the wheel in the wreckage. |
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