HIGHWAY CRASH VICTIMS NAMED FAMILY OF FOUR KILLED IN FIERY COLLISION.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer MOJAVE - Four people killed last week by a wrong-way driver on Highway 58 have been identified as a San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. County family, officials said Tuesday. Kern County coroners have identified the victims as Ralph Blea, 42, his companion, Amanda Smith, 31, and their two sons, Ralph, 6, and Michael, 4. The family lived in Apple Valley, a community about five miles east of Victorville. The family was killed July 5 in a fiery two-car collision on Highway 58 about six miles east of Mojave. They were returning home from a holiday trip to San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden when their 1998 Chrysler Cirrus The Chrysler Cirrus was a mid-size 4-door sedan sold in the United States from 1995 to 2000; In Mexico, the current Sebring sedan is still sold as the Cirrus. It and its siblings, the Dodge Stratus and the Plymouth Breeze, were known as the "Cloud Cars". was hit by a 1991 Dodge Dynasty traveling the wrong way on Highway 58. The driver of the Dodge has not yet been positively identified. Coroner's officials say they have information the man was from Las Vegas, but are waiting for dental records to confirm the identity. The collision occurred about 5:50 a.m., just after sunrise. California Highway Patrol officials said they 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. how or where the Dodge's driver got into the eastbound lanes heading west. 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 received 911 calls reporting a wrong-way driver about three miles away from the crash. ``We're still not sure where he got turned around - I don't know if we'll ever know,'' said CHP Officer Bobbi Record. The nearest off-ramp where the motorist could have entered the freeway is in North Edwards, about 11 miles from the crash site, but there are dirt and paved crossover lanes connecting the highway's two sides across the 70-foot divider, officials said. 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 , including a syringe, was found on the ground at the crash scene, Record said. |
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