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Quartz Hill woman airlifted to hospital after crash

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Preliminary information gathered at the scene revealed Quartz Hill resident Janet Hawes ran a stop sign on 90th Street West and collided with Lake Elizabeth resident Cynthia Sabo. Both cars ran off the road, and the women had to be extricated from their vehicles. Photo by LUIS MEZA.

LANCASTER – A 46-year-old Quartz Hill woman was airlifted to the hospital following a two-vehicle crash that sent both cars careening into the desert, authorities said.

Alcohol appears to have been a factor in the collision, which happened around 5:32 p.m. Tuesday on 90th Street West and Avenue K, according to Lancaster Station Traffic Sgt. Paul Pfrehm.

Janet Hawes of Quartz Hill was driving southbound on 90th Street West, in a 1990 Toyota Corolla, when she failed to stop for a posted stop sign and collided with a 2006 Nissan Sentra being driven westbound on Avenue K by 47-year-old Cynthia Sabo of Lake Elizabeth, according to Pfrehm.

One of vehicles caught fire after the crash. Photo by LUIS MEZA.

Officials said the Sentra rolled over and caught fire after the collision.

“When we arrived, we found one vehicle had rolled over and the other one had been pinned up against a power pole,” said L.A. County Fire Captain Robert Brandelli. “We ended up having to extricate both victims using the jaws of life … Both were in critical condition.”

Hawes was airlifted to Antelope Valley Hospital by Los Angeles County Fire Department airship, while Sabo was transported to Antelope Valley Hospital by ambulance.

The collision remains under investigation.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Lancaster Station’s Traffic Enforcement Team at 661-948-8466.

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63 comments for "Quartz Hill woman airlifted to hospital after crash"

    • I wish somebody would write and let me know whats going on. How is cynthia? And janet may never get better. I pray everyday for both women. I wish i knew where janet went. She needs friends to talk to her.

    • I JUST WISH JANET WOULD WAKE UP. I MISS HER SO EXTREMELY MUCH. AND I DONT EVEN GET TO VISIT HER. WHICH I THINK IS VERY SELFISH OF HER SISTER. BUT SHE DOESNT CARE HOW MUCH JANET ANTS TO HEAR MY VOICE. I THINK OF HER EVERYDAY

      • Well, you’re friend or whoever or however youre related to janet Hawes, needs to pay for what she did, Y would she be drinking and driving, Obviously she didn’t care about her life or any others! I’m glad shes at where she’s at!

  2. The problem with the 3 DUIs becoming an automatic felony is they must occur within 7 sevens of one another. Hope the judge takes the single DUI, adds the injury to another person and sentences this individual whose dearest friends say does not drink to the nine years she rightfully deserves. You can buy all the drugs you want in prison, vodka is a little scarce.

    • And y would a first class citicez who’s made no mistakes know about what’s in prison.nor perhaps your Hippocratic mind has never heard of calling the kettle black

  3. Everyone makes mistakes I bet if it was the other way around Janet’s family wouldent be wishing I’ll will on anyons . Saying dumb [removed] like dumb drunk, I bet if we shoved a microscope up your [removed] we would find a really bad mistake or close call that u havemade I know I do. I live out in the boonies to there are no lights I mean. None would a little red light be so much to ask for at high speed intersections . I’m glad there both in the hospital and not in the morgue being sorted through like it could have been. Now is not the time for I’ll will its time to just be with loved ones. And positive thoughts.
    Fact:alcohol kills more people than all the other drugs combine.except tobacco. So why then is it legal someone plz tell me?

  4. THAT’S THE SAME CAR THAT RAN THE SAME STOP SIGN ON THANKSGIVING DAY! I called 911 and gave them her license plate and FOLLOWED her telling them what streets she was on. I also told them we thought she was drunk. SHE NEARLY KILLED MY MOM AND I!! If the police would have gone after her for running the stop sign and drinking and driving this wouldn’t have happened!!!! She’s going to hell. How dare she take innocent lives into her own hands. PRAYING FOR YOU CYNTHIA!!!!

  5. if she lived one block from the scene then she had to know the stop sign was there.you need to shut the hell up best friend.

  7. OK she doesn’t always roll thru stop signs. It said in the report that she went thru a stop sign. I don’t know, I don’t live up there. And I hadn’t seen her for awhile. This was a terrible thing that happened. And all I want is for everybody to make a full recovery.

    • She rolled through one, that is all the matters. Even thinking it’s okay in anyway “no cop, no stop” is horrible, stupid, and deadly.

      • This points out a fundamental detail in why you should always obey the law even if there is no one around to see you.
        It’s called practice.
        When you practice you create subconscious memory recall in both mind and movement. This is what you will do when you are impaired from things like intoxication or lack of sleep.
        Practice what you know you are supposed to do so when you are distracted your subconscious will take over and continue to do what you are supposed to do..
        Like stop when coming to an intersection.

      • I never said it was OK. I’m not her. I didn’t do this. So get off my case. I don’t live up there. I have nothing to so with this. I’m just very sorry this happened. It is a very sad situation for everybody. Pray for a speedy recovery for everyone involved

    • Excuse me? She does always run through stop signs. She ran through the EXACT same stop sign on Thanksgiving day and nearly hit my mom and I. She missed our car by INCHES. Clearly, she isn’t the person you think she is. She’s selfish.

    • Well maybe you should just stop posting stupid comments. You obviously aren’t helping the situation by sounding dumb lady.

  8. It is clear that alcohol was definitely involved in this tragic nightmare. Cynthia Sabo is my aunt. I hope that my aunt pulls through this, but it is clear she will have permanent disabilities, if she survives. She is currently in critical condition and on a ventilator and in a coma. Her husband and three children are devastated as well as the rest of her extended family. And to the woman who was airlifted, I hope you enjoyed that drink because if you make it out of this you will be behind bars where you deserve to be.

  9. This is exactly the crap I am sick of in this valley. Whether she was drunk or not, she ran a stop sign and damn near killed an innocent person. We need to make people aware of how stupid AND DANGEROUS it is to run a stop sign period.

    Drinking and doing it is even worse and needs to be punished severely.

    May the innocent party involved have a speedy and full recovery from this horrific accident.

    • What also does not help is that the city of Lancaster has reduced the number of sheriff motors from 7 to 4. The enforcement is not there.

    • Drivers should ALWAYS expect the unexpected.
      It you approach an intersection and clearly have the right away, and the other driver thinks it’s his world and you’re just passing through it, how much gratification (for knowing you had the right of way)can you get when you are dead. NONE
      My comment about the other driver, covers all the excuses they and their family, could possible have for blowing the stop sign or light.
      It’s a different world and people no longer look out for eachother. Everyone is in such a hurry to get where ever….

  10. THANK YOU TO THE “DESERT ANGELS” THAT SAVED MY DAUGHTER IN LAW’S LIFE AND RESCUED MY GRANDCHILDREN’S MOTHER. WE WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL TO YOU.

    GOD IS IN CHARGE AND HE IS LARGE!

    • Cyndi and her family you are in our hearts and prayers for a total recovery. Cyndi is my co-worker and a great person always saying jokes and trying to have a good time at work. she was on her way home from work when this happen.

  11. Ummmm obviously you are not her best friend if you didn’t think she drinks! You’re suppose to know everything about your friend! And stop calling it an accident because it was on purpose! The second she turned the key in the ignition was a purpose of doing harm to some innocent people! If you were a best friend,. You should have never let her drive drunk!!!! Ugh you make me sick!

    • And I don’t live up there anymore. So I don’t know what’s going on in her everyday life. I wish I did. But Lancaster sucks.
      And lets focus on praying for the injured.

  12. And I’m Cynthia’s sister in law and aunt to Amanda, the daughter of Cynthia! We come from a huge “family” that knows your best friend’s “PROBLEM” quite well, & I’m not talking about “your best friends” immediate family or friends. You already gassed your self when you said “& who said my best friend was drunk anyway”? YOU were probably the last person to see your best friend 5 min too before she slammed into my sister-in law! So shut you need to keep your mouth shut, how dare you!!

  13. the facts will come but yet more innocent victims of drunk driving.dont drink and drive.your family could be next.

  14. So the victim of the newer car that rolled over and caught fire was transported by ambulance, and the driver of the older car that didn’t roll had to be airlifted. Get these older junk cars off the road. They are unsafe.

  15. Another drunk whose [removed] friend claims doen’t drink. Let’s guess, she just decided to run astopp sign for fun and the cops mistakingly gathered erroneous evidence.

  16. WOW,The irresponsible drunk driver was transported by helicopter to the Hospital, while the other victim was transported by ambulance.
    We can see it here again… The irresponsible and criminals have more rights than the other Citizens…Unbelievable.

    • I doubt they had the information as to who was at fault or drunk when they made the decision on how to transport them to the hospital.

    • Airlifting patients is based on medical priority and necessity. And where does it say she was drunk?

        • And yes,you are right alcohol did appear! Read the CHP report for those of you who can! They have hard facts or should I say HARD EVIDENCE both at the scene & at the hospital. They also had to “smell her raunchy booze stink” breath she smelled of too as they were trying to help her. You don’t think these people are obligated to report that & testify to this? Watch.

  17. Accidents like this could so easily be avoided if these [removed] would simply not drink and drive. A taxi ride or a hotel room rental allways costs less than a DUI, accident or someones life.

    • Ok first of all, I am Janet’s best friend, and she never drinks. But that’s not what’s important here. The important thing is if both accident victims are going to be OK. I know whatever happened, it was an accident. I’m extremely sad. And I hope and pray that both women make a full recovery

        • I can’t believe people r so insensitive. People r hurt. Nobody has proven there was alcohol involved. Say a prayer for both people that they will be alright. It was an accident. Whatever the circumstances r. Just pray the two people recover.

      • ok best friend,
        how do u explain an empty vodka bottle and 3 dui s and driving on a suspended license.

          • Umm Cynthia is my mother. And Larry is correct on the source. Dui’s. suspended license and alcohol in the car. Doesn’t mean she was intoxicated at the time but to say she never drinks? Hmm

      • then why does she have 3 dui’s and she was driving on a suspended drivers lic, you lying [removed] there was a open bottle of vodka in her car you lying [removed] get your facts straight she should have been locked up a long time ago. my wife is fighting for her life right now while here 3 girls watch, [removed] you keep your MOUTH SHUT

        • I HELPED GET THE THREE STRIK’S LAW INTO EFECT GETTING PEOP0LE TO SIGN PARTITIONS.
          DRUNK PEOPLE ARE SICK PEOPLE WITH A DISEASE CALLED ALCOHOLISEM. NOW THEY WANT TO REPELE IT.
          B/C WE WOULD HAVE TO BUILD MORE PRISON’S

        • I HELPED GET THE THREE STRIK’S LAW INTO EFECT GETTING PEOP0LE TO SIGN PARTITIONS.
          DRUNK PEOPLE ARE SICK PEOPLE WITH A DISEASE CALLED ALCOHOLISEM. NOW THEY WANT TO REPELE IT.
          B/C WE WOULD HAVE TO BUILD MORE PRISON’S.
          IF IT WAS UP TO ME I WOULD FINE THEM $5,000.00 1ST. OFFENCE DRIVING DRUNK.
          2ND. OFFENCE &10.000.00 THIS WOULD HELP CLEAR SOME HIGHWAYS.

          • Ok for one thing, what is wrong with everybody. Janet lives one block from the accident. She does not have 3 DUI ‘s. And she has a suspended license only because she didn’t pay for a talking on a cell phone ticket. She [removed] up. She seemed to always roll thru stop signs. Believe me, she feels horrible. She is going to have reconstruction surgery to her face tomorrow. I never see her drink, maybe 3 times a year. Lets just pray for a full recovery for anyone involved.

          • Are you f___ing serious lady? OMG! You obviously don’t know your best friends “secret” of alcoholism either do you? Or do you think like this in your normal daily life? Wow! There really ARE truly stupid people out there like your self who are like this! And your friend got a ticket for talking on a cell phone? And she “seems” to “always just roll right on through stop signs”! WHOOOOOO WHOOOOOO LADY! PLEASE BY ALL MEANS…….KEEP TALKING & POSTING! WERE ALL WATCHING & TAKING NOTES FOR THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY! WERE JUST BUILDING THIS CASE UP EVEN BIGGER NOW & THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE YOU, A BEST FRIEND EVERY TIME YOU OPEN YOUR PIE HOLE!