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Two critically injured in Palmdale crash, driver of other car arrested [update: 1 dead]

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PALMDALE – Two cars collided in a Palmdale intersection Sunday night, sending two patients from one car to Antelope Valley Hospital and resulting in the arrest of the driver of the other car, authorities said.

It happened around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at North 110th Street East and East Avenue O, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Melanie Flores.

At least one of the people in one of the cars was trapped inside and was extricated by firefighters using hydraulic tools, Flores said.

It appeared one car was northbound on 110th Street East and one car was westbound on East Avenue O when they collided, Lt. D. Ballentine of the Palmdale sheriff’s station said. The two people, a male and female, were taken to Antelope Valley Hospital in critical condition, he said.

The driver of the other car involved in the crash left his vehicle and fled the scene, Ballentine said. The man returned later and was arrested on suspicion of DUI, the lieutenant said.

The suspect’s name was not immediately released. No further information on the incident was available.

UPDATE: The female passenger was pronounced dead as a result of her injuries, according to a news release from the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station. Read our updated story here.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Palmdale

21 comments for "Two critically injured in Palmdale crash, driver of other car arrested [update: 1 dead]"

  1. This article is about driving impaired, and the results. A human being is dead, and another one is in critical condition. lives changed in an instant by a person that made the choice to drive impaired, driving a weapon of destruction. He fled the scene but came back. This has nothing to do with ICE, or politicians in Lancaster or Palmdale. This has nothing to do with a person’s race. Thank God there are wonderful human beings in this community that are kind, and filled with empathy for their fellow man, working to make a positive difference. Please don’t drive impaired!

  2. “The driver of the other car involved in the crash left his vehicle and fled the scene…”

    That won’t help his case in court.

    • You’re right, but he did come back. Maybe he came to his senses and decided to just face the consequences.

    • A young woman loses her life and you think this article is about laughing at Tim Scott’s comment. Your both the same when it comes to not caring about another human being, and the pain their family and friends are going through.

      • Why? I’m not in mourning. We didn’t kill the girl. Don’t hold me to your hypocritical morality.

        Maybe if you feel bad you should help ICE get illegals out of OUR valley and minimize out of control DUI hit and runs.

        MAGA/KAG

        • Trumpist #1…There is nothing hypocritical about compassion for another human being. You’re lost, and you’re blind. It will come back on you one day.

        • This wasn’t a DUI hit and run, idiot, and your false assumption that this has to do with an illegal has to do with your sick, paranoid mind. You don’t have to be in mourning to have empathy for a fellow human being.

        • TRUMPIST #1 ,
          You are a sick person and this has nothing to do with race or stupid ICE or whatever the hell you have on your twated mind, if you actually READ through the ARTICLE I think you would’ve known that it was in fact a DUI that wasn’t determined by an idiot like you but actually someone who is doing their job . It doesn’t take a lot to just be kind or in fact not say anything at all when there’s family’s and friends mourning a light that was taken out too soon . So instead of being a close minded piece of crap, try to fix that useless part of yourself and use it for something good .

          • I’m ashamed of myself and will forthwith treat every illegal, felon and snowflake communist in this valley with love like Marianne Williamson. NOT!!

            Bleeding hearts like you facilitate lawlessness, anarchy and moral decay. You’re destroying our country. I hope ICE comes for you soon.

            Hey Tim, I think they hate me more than you now, LOL

          • Trumpist: Hate you? I think it’s more like pity, that you turn an article about impaired driving into a diatribe about anarchy, communism, lawlessness.

  6. This has illegal immigrant written all over it … these ICE raids can’t come soon enough

    • Really? You can’t think better than to get rid of hard working people? Careful what yall wish FOR.

      • Wouldn’t want anybody to enforce foreign United States laws here in Kaliforniastan, would we?

        • I particularly like that federal law that says immigration enforcement is strictly a federal function and cannot be delegated to the states or their local law enforcement agencies. You know, that law that any time anyone in state government or law enforcement says “yeah, we are gonna obey that one” all the D’umpists immediately go into a massive whine/rant about ‘sanctuary cities.’ That law.

          Flush the turd on November third!

          And, yeah, hear in Palmdale that has multiple applicability. Lookin’ at you, Sellout Steve.

          • And your self-centered opinion isn’t applicable to this article. A young woman lost her life, and another has critical injuries.