LANCASTER GIRL, PALMDALE MAN DIE.

Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER - Two people killed in separate crashes over the weekend were identified as a 16-year-old Lancaster girl and a 37-year-old Palmdale man, officials said Monday.

Jessica Linn was riding in a pickup truck Saturday night that was hit by another pickup that ran a stop sign, and Odis Fort was driving a compact car that ran head-on into another car Sunday afternoon on a two-lane road, California Highway Patrol officials said.

Linn was originally thought to be a 23-year-old woman, authorities said.

Both crashes are still under investigation, CHP Officer Rusty Moore said.

Saturday night's crash at 110th Street West and Avenue I killed Linn and injured two other people in the pickup truck with her, and also injured a man and a boy in the other pickup truck.

Also injured was a man whose compact car was at a stop sign when one of the pickup trucks slammed into it after the first collision.

The injured people were identified as 15-year-old Tammy Baker of Lancaster and Sam Orrison, 22, of Lebec, who were in the pickup truck with Linn.

Todd Holme, 45, and Cody Holme, 11, of Lake Hughes were injured in the other truck, which a CHP report said failed to stop at a stop sign.

Injured in the compact car, a 1986 Chevrolet Sprint, was Thomas Newfang, 44, of Lake Elizabeth.

Sunday afternoon's crash on 170th Street East south of Avenue K-4 also injured Rashaan Sampson, 27, of Boron, whose 1997 Pontiac was hit head-on by Fort's 1988 Subaru, the CHP said.

Investigators don't know why the Subaru veered across the center line, Moore said.