TWO HURT IN PICKUP-BIG RIG COLLISION ON HIGHWAY 138.

Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER -- Two people were seriously injured in a collision between a big rig and a pickup truck that was passing slower-moving vehicles on two-lane Highway 138.

Pickup driver Khalifeh Musharbash, 51, of Chino Hills suffered a broken hip and his passenger, a 58-year-old Glendora man whose name was not released, had his back broken, California Highway Patrol officers said.

Musharbash's 2006 Dodge pickup was traveling east at 60 or 65 mph, passing slower-moving vehicles, near 190th Street West when he saw the big rig coming the other direction.

Musharbash braked and swerved onto the road's north dirt shoulder, then back across the westbound lane, the CHP said. The big rig's driver, Marcelino Zaragoza, 47, of Lindsay, also hit his brakes.

Just as the big rig slowed to a stop, the swerving pickup truck's left rear hit the big rig's front end, the CHP said. The big rig driver was not hurt.

Musharbash was flown to Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, his passenger to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills.