MAN KILLED WHEN CAR GOES OFF 101 FREEWAY.Byline: BRENT HOPKINS Staff Writer WOODLAND HILLS -- An 82-year-old Woodland Hills man was killed Monday when his car flew off the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. and into a parking garage, authorities said. The man, who was not identified pending notification of his family, died at the scene of the 4:25 p.m. crash near the Shoup Avenue exit. Nobody else was 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. . A 27-year-old Oakland woman was heading north on the 101 Freeway when she attempted to change lanes and collided with the 82-year-old man's car, police said. His car veered off the freeway, careened down an embankment, crashed through brush and a chain-link fence, and plowed into a car parked in the garage in the 22100 block of Burbank Boulevard. The parked car belonged to Leonor Gonzalez, who lives in a condo in the complex. She was making a phone call when she heard a crash and smelled smoke. "I came running and hoped that he missed my car, but it didn't," she said. Her red 2001 Toyota Corolla The Toyota Corolla is a compact car produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the bestselling car in the world, with over 30 million sold as of 2007. , almost hit in a previous crash in the parking lot, had a crushed engine compartment compartment a part of the body as a whole and divided from the rest by a physical partition. fluid compartment that liquid part of the body excluded by cell membranes. Includes intravascular and intercellular compartments. . The man's sedan Sedan (sədäN`), town (1990 pop. 22,407), Ardennes dept., NE France, on the Meuse River. A noted textile center since the 16th cent., Sedan also has metal and brewing industries. The town became part of French crown lands in 1642. rested on its side, wheels pointed toward Gonzalez's headlights. The body of the victim, covered with a sheet, lay by its crushed hood. "Good God almighty," said Gary Paul, a salesman who has lived in the building for more than a year. "This happened in the exact same place just a few months ago." brent.hopkins(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3738 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: 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 look over a car Monday whose driver was killed when the vehicle went off the westbound 101 Freeway in Woodland Hills. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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