TRUCKER, 2 OTHERS HURT IN COLLISION.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer AGUA DULCE Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
The big rig hit three other vehicles and came to rest across all three northbound lanes of the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. north of Escondido Canyon Road, blocking the freeway for 45 minutes. ``He slid to the left and collided with (the other vehicles.) There's independent witnesses that said the big rig was cut off,'' 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 spokesman Doug Sweeney said. Truck driver Otis Welch, 44, of Norwalk was flown 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 with major head injuries, the CHP said. Gary May of Canyon Country and Orail Rawls of Los Angeles were taken by ambulance to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. The CHP said their injuries were moderate. The third motorist, Dennis Will, 43, of Valencia was not injured. The 6:10 a.m. crash caused minimal delays for northbound traffic, which was routed onto the freeway shoulders to bypass the jackknifed truck, Sweeney said. But southbound traffic backed up as much as 10 miles as motorists slowed to look at the wreckage. The crash also slowed traffic on southbound Interstate 5 near Gavin Canyon, where motorists slowed down to read a freeway message sign reporting the crash. CHP officers had the message turned off. CHP officials said the crash occurred where the Antelope Valley Freeway narrows from four lanes to three and a car-pool lane ends. Welch had changed from the slow lane to the next lane in anticipation of the right lane ending, officials said. Another vehicle passed him in the slow lane, then came up behind another big rig in the same lane, and darted between the two, in front of Welch, Sweeney said. Welch swerved to the left, causing his tractor-trailer to jackknife jack·knife n. 1. A large clasp knife. 2. Sports A dive in the pike position, in which the diver straightens out to enter the water hands first. v. and hit Will's 1992 GMC GMC See: Guaranteed Mortgage Certificate pickup truck, May's 1994 Ford Aerostar and Rawls' 1993 Toyota pickup truck, CHP officials said. The vehicle that had cut in front of Welch kept going, Sweeney said. |
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