Van Driver Killed, 16 Hurt in Head-On Crash
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A driver barreling the wrong way down a rural road Wednesday was killed and 16 people were hospitalized after she forced a van carrying passengers from a retirement home into a ditch and then plowed head-on into an ambulance, the California Highway Patrol said.
The ambulance driver, Rebecca Ayers, 35, was flown to a hospital in Sacramento with broken legs, said Officer Jim Bonilla. The van driver and 14 passengers were all taken to the hospital.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. July 8, 2005 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Friday July 08, 2005 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 51 words Type of Material: Correction
Fatal crash -- The headline on a news brief in Thursday’s California section about a head-on collision near Woodland blamed on a wrong-way driver said the driver of a van involved in the collision was killed. In fact, the van driver was injured; the wrong-way driver of a car was killed.
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