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Lancaster wrong-way crash kills 2 women, 2 children [update: crash victims ID’d]

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The collision, which left a black Dodge Challenger crumpled and the big rig’s cab overturned, occurred on Avenue G just west of 30th Street East, according to the California Highway Patrol. [Image by BRYAN HALL]
LANCASTER – Two women and two young boys were killed Friday when a car traveling on the wrong side of the road collided head-on with a big rig in Lancaster, authorities said.

The collision happened around 9:09 a.m. Friday, June 4, on Avenue G just west of 30th Street East, according to a California Highway Patrol report.

A 62-year-old Lancaster woman was driving a 2019 Dodge Challenger westbound in the eastbound lane of Avenue G when the vehicle collided with a 2017 Peterbilt truck, the CHP report states.

The rig’s driver, 44-year-old Santos D. Torres of Corona, sustained minor injuries and was not transported to the hospital, according to the CHP report.

The driver of the Dodge was pronounced dead at the scene. The front passenger, a 59-year-old woman from Lancaster, was transported to Holy Cross Hospital by a sheriff’s helicopter and was pronounced dead by hospital staff, according to the CHP report.

Three children inside the Dodge were transported to Antelope Valley Hospital by AMR ambulance. Upon arrival, two of them were pronounced dead — a 9-year-old boy and a 6-year-old boy. The third child, a 5-year-old boy, “was being treated for major traumatic injuries,” the CHP report states.

The victims’ names were withheld pending family notification.

“The involvement of alcohol and/or drugs is unknown at this time and is still under investigation,” the CHP report states.

Anyone with information regarding this collision is encouraged to contact Officer Ball at the Antelope Valley CHP Office at 661-948-8541.

UPDATE [Crash victim’s ID’d]: According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, the driver of the black Dodge Challenger who died at the scene was Sandra Jones, 62, of Lancaster. The female passenger who died at a hospital was Roslind Harris, 59, also of Lancaster. The children — who both died in hospitals — were David Howard, 6, and Justin Howard, 8, both of Las Vegas, the coroner’s office said.

[BRYAN HALL]

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11 comments for "Lancaster wrong-way crash kills 2 women, 2 children [update: crash victims ID’d]"

  2. 5 people are gone. Be kinder and do better!!
    This family is broken and lost and a lot of you are only offering up sarasm, hate, ridicule and speculation.
    All people in this car were related… Family… Loved… Adored and now… Missed
    Be kinder and do better!!

  3. It’s sickening to see the lack of respect or consideration of anyone else’s feelings that are involved in this horrid accident. Those who showed that lack of consideration, you’re the reason why the world regresses rather than progresses. To just outwardly comment what your mouth otherwise wouldn’t have opened up to say in person shows how much of a troll you are. Trolls are ugly inside and out. Maybe Lancaster wouldn’t be considered such a sh*t place if individuals like yourselves were to think and not be so blatantly ignorant and disrespectful. Ignorance is a choice, maybe, rather than using your brain cells to comment the stuff you know someone would kick your ass for saying in person, you could use it to better yourself and do something meaningful with your time or life. Two little boys are dead and two women who you don’t know anything about or who they were and what lives they’ve lived are no longer alive either because of an ACCIDENT that was gravely unfortunate. To completely disregard the human lives lost and not offer support in the time that one is barely hanging on, if he pulls through, he’s going to have to live life without his brothers and the people he loved.. his life will never be the same and he’s going to have a difficult time all his life trying to get through all of this. You should be ashamed, but then again, I feel bad for people like you. It’s like your only purpose is to show others how awful people can get and be an example to others of how not to act or imitate. My condolences for those involved, I’m not a Christian, but I am sending the hope that the little boy pulls through, and the truck driver is ok as well, and that the families know many people’s hearts and thoughts are with them during this difficult time. Blessed be, always.

  4. Please keep your comments to urself. That was a good friend of ours and she was not a bad person. She helped a lot of people change their lives. Thank you.

  6. Please, let’s pray for this poor family and the little boy in critical condition. A moment of distraction could result in the same for anyone of us. Also let’s pray for the big rig driver and the families of all involved. Lancaster is a city full of Christians but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the comments in our town paper here. It’s very sad. And what about common decency and somberness in the event of death and respect for life and the humanity of us all? We can all take the time to step it up a notch. The families read these comments, what do you want them to be met with? What would you want your family to be met with? We can’t change what other people say but we can leave our own comments if we take a moment to give condolences for people in mourning.

  7. Why a couple of grannies were driving a fast vehicle with 3 little boys in the back?