TRUCKER, 2 OTHERS HURT IN CRASH BIG RIG MISSES FLEEING CAR BUT JACKKNIFES ON FREEWAY.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 stopped 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. , which was blocked for 45 minutes north of Escondido Canyon Road. ``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 independent witnesses told authorities. As the truck driver tried to stop suddenly, the big rig slid to the left and collided with other vehicles, Sweeney said. Truck driver Otis Welch, 44, of Norwalk suffered major head injuries and 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 , Sweeney said. Gary May of Canyon Country and Orail Rawls of Los Angeles were taken by ambulance to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. Their injuries were described as moderate. Dennis Will, 43, of Valencia, also driving a vehicle that was hit, 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 was backed up for as far as 10 miles as motorists slowed to look at the wreckage. Traffic also was slowed on southbound Interstate 5 near Gavin Canyon, where motorists slowed down to read a freeway message sign reporting the crash, so 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 one in anticipation of the freeway narrowing, 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 cut in front of Welch kept going, Sweeney said. |
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