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Driver killed, 4 injured in rollover crash [updated]

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fatal crashLANCASTER – A female driver was killed and four people were injured Monday night when an SUV traveled off the roadway and rolled over multiple times, authorities said.

The crash was reported around 10:35 p.m. Monday, July 4, on 50th Street East south of Avenue M, according to a California Highway Patrol report.

A 37-year-old female from Lancaster was driving a 2000 Ford Expedition northbound on 50th Street East, at an unknown speed, when she “turned the Ford Expedition to the right, causing it to travel off the roadway,” the CHP report states.

The vehicle overturned multiple times, and the deceased driver was trapped in the rolled-over vehicle, said Capt. Keith Mora of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Her name has not yet been released pending next of kin notification, coroner’s officials said Tuesday.

An unidentified male passenger was ejected from the vehicle and transported to Antelope Valley Hospital in critical condition, according to the Fire Department. His injuries included a broken femur, laceration to head and internal bleeding, according to the CHP.

Two girls and a boy sustained injuries and were transported to the hospital by Los Angeles County Fire helicopter, the CHP report states. Their names and ages were not immediately released.

The three children and the driver were wearing seat belts, but the unidentified male passenger was not, according to the CHP report.

“The traffic collision is still under investigation. At this time intoxication does not appear to be a factor,” the CHP report states.

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UPDATE: The deceased driver was identified as Carmelitta Salone, 37, whose hometown was not known, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office.

UPDATE: The male passenger ejected from the Ford Expedition and transported to the hospital has died, according to coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. The passenger was identified as 18-year-old Evontae Charelle Webb, and he died from his injuries on July 5, Winter said. 

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31 comments for "Driver killed, 4 injured in rollover crash [updated]"

  1. Thank you to all of u that had condolences to Express to my family..Although i would never ask for Anyone’s family to be over looked..but since this tragedy happened other tragedies have happened as well…please Share,Share,Share My family’s story they could use all the help they can get in burying their Mother and Brother……Thank you and God Bless

  2. Love u litta “aka” big baby.. from your home boy from waaay back like on the 7 block days. Kant believe this is tru

  3. Ford, Dodges, GM, Kias, and a few others have very poor roof crush strength-even their large trucks. The A-pillar will collapse immediately in a rollover causing significant injuries to the front occupants. RIP to the lost one and prayers for the family. Be mindful of the car/truck you buy, your decision can save your life. Research it yourself.

  4. Danm got the news this morning… This is hard one to swallow.. Sending my prayer to the family and my friend’s

  5. Praying for this family Ik what it feels like to lose loved ones and this is very tragic may the Lord be with this family and comfort them during their time of bereavement

  6. My condolences and prayers to the family. Thanking the lady that was there praying! Thankful for the responders! Please, city officials, begging you to fix those soft dirt roads. Deaths from these type of roads should not happen.

    • Rip…you will be missed …one of the most sweetest person I know. …
      Prayers going up for the family.

  8. That is a bad road. There is no street lights at all. They need to improve that road by putting street lights up. It is so dark it’s hard to see anything

  10. Its always sad to hear of a repeat on ave m and 50th st east the city needs to be responsible and make pavement on the edges of the dirt roads once the wheel touch the dirth it pulls you and cause roll over crashes in 2012 same thing happen to a mini van praying for all involvedd

    • That mini van accident in 2012 was my sister and she passed in a roll over too. And in the same spot as this one.I also agree something needs to be done about that road. Praying for the families.

    • Perhaps more driving experience. That dirt is hard packed and stabilized to boot. I have used it to avoid debris at 60 mph with no issues, just yesterday a highway patrol SUV used it at a decent clip to turn around and take off after someone. I have even seen full size pickups hit the wrong side of that stretch of road and use it to pass everyone making an illegal left at the end.

  12. knew her since i was a little girl..i knew her deceased sister.who also died in a car accident in 2009..and their dad…im sadden by this news…God bless the children…and give them strength…

  13. I’m sad to read that a person has died, God rest her soul !
    I too was traveling on that very road last I left a Victorville, Ca 4th of July function early and just as I started to question myself if I had made the right choice in leaving im seeing this what looked like a greenesh color SUV it landed on it’s roof.
    I was looking at the truck and at the same time I was trying to figure how I was going to avoid what ever made that happen.
    I stoped right there and streched out both ✋ toward this this family crying and pleading for our Heavenly Father to “help the family, let them be Father”, while another female was on the phone with 911. As the first fire truck arrived and swung into action runing with those super giant scissors, cutting the fence so that the team could get to the family.
    Still hysterically & I also ☎ several family members who I new would answer the ☎ because they were still waiting for me to call them to say I made it home safe, I said, ” please pray for this family i’m on 50th Street East right now there’s childern in a dark field right now a SUV flipped over and it has people inside and someone is helping someone that has been trown from SUV I don’t know how many people there is please pray for them right now !”
    I was feeling really tired, I pulled off the road a few times last night
    to stretch, take a nap, use the toilet just to make it home safe.
    I send prayers of ✌ & good health to the family & it’s member’s
    A special blessing to women on the ☎ w/ 991.
    A special thanks to the men on duty that evening,
    and to all that were and are involved in the rescue of this family no is big enough.

    • Instead of standing there talking to yourself, why not take a first aid class so that if you ever come across this kind of thing again you can actually do something constructive?

      • Bro shut the fu@k up!!!! This girls praying for them and all you can do is talk $hit on the internet? Take your own advice and do something constructive!

        • Mfkaaz iz foul asf…. Still prayin for the fam tomarrow iz not promised ppl keep yo loved ones close cuz yuu never kno if it cud be yuu an yo fam next
          #learnlife
          #livesmatter
          #resteasy

    • I thank you so much this was my family you never no why God has you in a place to intercessor God bless you

  14. Praying that the three children and the man recover fully. Praying for the family for their loss of their loved
    one.

  15. 50th East or was it West ?
    Saw a lot of emergency vehicles going West on L about that time?

    • The westbound engines were headed to a brush fire started by fireworks…either the West IC or the Hawk IC…