PASSENGER THROWN FROM OVERTURNED AUTO, DIES.Byline: Daily News BORON boron (bōr`ŏn) [New Gr. from borax], chemical element; symbol B; at. no. 5; at. wt. 10.81; m.p. about 2,300°C;; sublimation point about 2,550°C;; sp. gr. 2.3 at 25°C;; valence +3. -- A Rancho Cucamonga Rancho Cucamonga (răn`chō k  'kəmäng`gə), city (1990 pop. 101,409), San Bernardino co., S Calif. man died Tuesday night when the car in
which he was riding went out of control and flipped several times, the
California Highway Patrol said.
The 31-year-old man's name was not immediately released while authorities tried to locate his family to inform them of his death. Driver Rodney King, 27, of Boron was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, 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 officials said. He was treated at Antelope Valley Hospital for what CHP officers described as major injuries. King's 2005 Ford 500 sedan had been driving west on Twenty Mule Team
Twenty mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that ferried borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889. Road at high speed about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday when it went out of control east of Green Street, skidded off the pavement and overturned several times. The passenger was thrown from the car and pronounced dead at the scene. King went to a nearby home for help. |
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