MAN DIES WHEN CARS COLLIDE IN NOHO.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Daily News Staff Writer A Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. man was killed and a second man seriously injured in a three-vehicle collision Thursday, but investigators say a seat belt could have saved the first man's life. ``If both of them had a seat belt on, we would have had a nothing accident,'' said Officer Walter Hogue of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's Valley Traffic Division. The identity of the Simi Valley man was not immediately available, authorities said. A 3-year-old girl in one car escaped with only bumps and bruises, even though she was unrestrained in the back seat, police said. Her father, Lamar Hall, 34, suffered a fractured spine and was in stable condition, officials said. Trying to figure out how the crash occurred, detectives said they believe that one driver ran a red light, not the man who was killed. The crash happened about 7:20 a.m. at the intersection of Colfax Avenue Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east and west through the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed. and Oxnard Street. A white Toyota Supra
The Toyota Supra was a sports car/grand tourer produced by Toyota Motor Company from 1979 to 2002. driven by Hall was westbound on Oxnard Street when he clipped the left front end of a white Toyota Camry The Toyota Camry is a mid-size sedan assembled by Toyota in Georgetown, Kentucky; Altona, Victoria, Guangzhou, China and the original factory in Toyota City, Japan. In some markets, the top range Camry models are seen as executive cars. southbound on Colfax driven by Shushan Ouakyan, 42. The Supra A relational DBMS from Cincom Systems, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (www.cincom.com) that runs on IBM mainframes and VAXs. It includes a query language and a program that automates the database design process. then hit a silver Ford Probe either stopped or traveling eastbound on Oxnard, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Lt. Anthony Alba. The Probe's driver was ejected and slid for at least 50 feet, landing on the southwest corner sidewalk, Hogue said. Witnesses ran to the scene to help the driver, but he died within minutes, police said. After hearing the crash as they sat down to eat breakfast, Nolan and Carol Anderson and their granddaughter ran to help. As Nolan Anderson checked the Ford Probe's driver, his wife opened the Supra. ``I pulled the door open and his body fell out into my arms,'' said Carol Anderson, who moved him out of the car. ``I know you're not supposed to move people, but you needed to help him because he was gasping. . . . I kept talking to him, telling him not to go to sleep. He didn't talk for a long time and then he said he wanted his baby,'' she said. CAPTION(S): photo, map PHOTO Investigators examine the scene of a three-car crash Thursday morning that killed a Simi Valley man. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News Map: Site of fatal crash |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion