ROAD RAGE KILLS MOM, DAUGHTER; WRONG-WAY CRASH FOLLOWS I-5 QUARREL.Byline: Stacy Brown Daily News Staff Writer For Delfina Morales and her daughter, a momentary lapse into road rage See Web rage. Wednesday proved fatal. Witnesses told officers that Morales, 42, of San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. , and her daughter, Maria Gonzalez, 26, of Pacoima, got into an angry dispute with the driver of a minivan as they headed north on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. in the Sylmar area. There was an exchange of gestures, honking of horns and flashing of headlights as Morales followed the minivan down the off-ramp at Roxford Street in her Mercury Cougar The Mercury Cougar was an automobile sold under the Mercury brand of the Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury Division. The name was first used in 1967 and was carried by a diverse series of cars over the next three decades. , they said. Then, inexplicably, an apparently panicked Morales made a U-turn back up the off-ramp and headed the wrong way into freeway traffic, her vehicle sideswiping one car before slamming into a truck. The car was torn in half and the women died instantly at 7:27 a.m., just a few minutes after they had dropped off Gonzalez's 9-year-old son at school. ``Look at this tragic situation because of a freeway altercation - maybe one car cut another car off,'' said California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. Officer Doug Sweeney. ``Is it worth it to die like this?'' The crash - the third spectacular collision in the Newhall Pass Newhall Pass is a mountain pass in Los Angeles County, California, USA. Historically called San Fernando Pass and Fremont Pass, it separates the Santa Susana Mountains from the San Gabriel Mountains. since New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. - tied up the northbound Golden State Freeway for nearly five hours as investigators searched for clues and the wreckage was cleared. Neighbors react Neighbors in the San Fernando mobile-home park where Morales resided characterized her and her daughter as friendly, hard-working women. Morales also had four sons, ranging in age from their late teens to their 20s, the neighbors said. ``She was a good person, always working,'' Lupe Galvez said. She said Morales worked at a hospital as a janitor and that her daughter was a frequent baby sitter to the Galvezes' 5-year-old daughter. ``They were a good family, they had many friends,'' she said. The gruesome tragedy was hard on the Galvez family. ``The way it happened, it was terrible,'' said David Galvez. Morales and Gonzalez were killed going about 45 mph when their car collided head-on with a truck heading north at about 60 mph, said 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 Officer Robert Rockafellow. It was not known where they had been heading when they had the run-in with the minivan driver, who is being sought by investigators. When Morales headed back onto the freeway the wrong way, her car sideswiped a blue Honda Accord The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , then hit the truck, Sweeney said. The minivan driver also headed back up the ramp, but turned again and fled, he said. The front of the women's car was demolished. Only the back section of the vehicle, including the back seat and trunk, remained intact on the highway. Two others hurt The crash resulted in injuries to two other motorists, including off-duty 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. fire Capt. George DeMott. The impact of the initial collision caused the truck to overturn on DeMott's red Camaro. DeMott and the driver of the truck, Victorino Raul Martin Perez, 26, were taken to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History for treatment. Their injuries were not considered serious. DeMott, 58, was heading home from a 24-hour shift at nearby Fire Station 75 when he was hit. His car skidded along the freeway's center divider. DeMott said he never saw the wrong-way driver's car but knew there had been a collision. ``A whole lot of metal debris was hitting my car, coming from the impact of the two vehicles,'' DeMott said. ``At the same time, the truck was tipping.'' After his car settled to a stop, DeMott said, he got out and asked whether the truck driver was OK, but didn't check either of the women's vital signs. ``They obviously were dead,'' he said. DeMott said he had ``aches and bumps and bruises and a little glass in my scalp'' but was happy to be alive to celebrate his anniversary with the department. ``Thirty-three years (today),'' he said. ``I'm glad I made it.'' Perez was on his way to a Sylmar print shop at the time of the crash, said Mike Franz, Perez's boss at Exec-U-Mail of Marina del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
``It's not the kind of thing where somebody makes a lane change in front of you,'' Franz said. ``Any truck driver gets that and they know how to handle it. But this is going to be a complete surprise.'' The impact tore off the truck's front axle, and sheered the passenger side of the truck, Finz said. Northridge resident Rosemary DiGicomo, the driver of the Honda that was sideswiped, was not injured, authorities said. Freeway shut down The northbound side of the Golden State Freeway was shut down for about two hours and the traffic jam extended as much as 10 miles to the south. Traffic on the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and Ronald Reagan freeways also backed up as CHP and Caltrans workers rerouted vehicles stopped on the Golden State. ``I've seen a lot of accidents in my 22 years on this job,'' said Ken Armstrong Kenneth Armstrong (3 June 1924 – 13 June 1984) was an English footballer. Born in Bradford, and serving in the RAF during the Second World War, Armstrong was a versatile, tough-tackling and energetic midfielder who played mainly for Chelsea. , a Caltrans supervisor. ``You never get used to these; you cope with them, but you don't get used to them.'' The other two major crashes recently in the Newhall Pass area were blamed on rain-slick highways. There was a 14-vehicle pileup Jan. 3 as well as a 10-vehicle crash Friday. Daily News Staff Writers Peter Hartlaub, Yvette Cabrera and Anne Burke contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): 5 Photos, drawing, map PHOTO (1 -- color) A CHP investigator steps through the wreckage of a car involved in Wednesday's crash on the Golden State Freeway near Sylmar. (2 -- color) Motorists and passengers stand outside their cars Wednesday on the northbound Golden State Freeway, which was closed south of the Newhall Pass after a fatal collision. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News (3 -- color) A truck lies crumpled crum·ple v. crum·pled, crum·pling, crum·ples v.tr. 1. To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple. 2. To cause to collapse. v.intr. 1. on its side after a head-on collision A head-on collision is one where the front ends of two ships, trains, planes or vehicles hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision. Rail transport With rail, a head-on collision often implies a collision on a single line railway. Wednesday on the Golden State Freeway near Sylmar. (4 -- color) CHP officers survey the site of a crash near Sylmar that destroyed the front end of the Mercury Cougar at left and killed both people inside. (5 -- color) A fatal crash on the northbound Golden State Freeway backs up traffic for miles Wednesday while officials sort through the debris. David R. Crane/Daily News Drawing: Fatal freeway collision Gregg Miller/ Daily News Map: Site of head-on collision killing 2 |
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