Daughters car accident kills mother
Trapped against wall
BUENA PARK, Calif.—A 71-year-old woman was killed in Buena Park when a car slammed into her daughter's sedan, forcing it onto a sidewalk where the victim was waiting to be picked up outside the assisted living facility where she lived, police reported.
Boon Soon Yang was struck by her daughter's car about 11:20 a.m. at 7252 Melrose St. and trapped against a wall, Sgt. Bill Kohanek said. Yang was taken in critical condition to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead, Kohanek said.
Sung S. Lim, 47, of La Mirada, had just arrived at the assisted living facility when the accident occurred, Kohanek said.
Lim's 2011 Audi A5 Quattro was facing west along the north curb—her mother was waiting on the south side of the street—and she was apparently trying to make a left turn into a driveway or U-turn when a 2005 Honda Civic slammed into her driver's-side door.
The collision pushed the Audi up onto the sidewalk, where it hit Lim's mother, Kohanek said.
The Honda was driven by Priya Shah, 19, of Buena Park, who escaped injury, Kohanek said.
No citations were issued at the scene, he said, adding that investigators were trying to determine who was at fault.
PALMDALE, CALIF., - A man on a bicycle was struck by a sport utility vehicle and killed in Palmdale tonight. The collision occurred around 9:15 p.m. on Palmdale Boulevard near 30th Street East, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt.
BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif.—The father of a 27-year-old woman rescued from a fiery crash that killed her 9-year-old daughter said that he expects his wife will walk out of the hospital, despite her being hospitalized in critical condition with burns over 80 percent of her body.
Rodney Taylor, the husband of aspiring singer Gilani Taylor, told a news conference at County-USC Medical Center where his wife was hospitalized, “I lost my baby girl... just her smile—you’ve seen the pictures—got me going.”
INGLEWOOD (CNS) - A 61-year-old man was struck and killed as a car smashed into his pickup truck which he was loading, pushing him back and into the path of another vehicle, police said today.
The accident occurred at 2:34 p.m. Sunday at the El Super Market at 3321
W. Century Blvd., three blocks west of Crenshaw Boulevard, said Lt. Oscar
Serrano of the Inglewood Police Department.
SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County supervisors today adopted new political district boundaries, but not without some dissension, with Buena Park leaders criticizing the splitting of their city’s representation and Latino activists saying they may challenge the vote in court.
Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach, who cast the lone dissenting vote on the five-member board, accused his fellow supervisors of “gerrymandering.”
SANTA ANA, Calif.—The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved a redistricting plan that went against a proposal by a redistricting committee.
Among the ways the plan proposed put forward by Board Chairman Bill Campbell and passed by a 4-1 vote differs from the committee’s plan is that it moves a portion of Fountain Valley north of Warner Avenue from the Second District to the First District.
