Three Injured in Morning Crash on PCH
Three people were injured Friday morning
when their speeding car on Pacific Coast Highway crashed into
the back of a garbage truck that had just turned onto the
highway at Decker Canyon Road.
Deputies estimate the car was traveling
southeast faster than 70 miles an hour. The truck driver,
turning left from the stop sign at the bottom of Decker, told
deputies he saw the car, but thought it was traveling at the
speed limit, giving him room to enter the highway.
The truck turned into the left lane, and
then proceeded to move over. The car driver, a woman, tried to
swerve but smacked into the truck hard, deputies said.
Two of the three people in the vehicle were
air-evacuated to UCLA, and the third was taken there by ground
ambulance. Airbags in the front of the crumpled sedan had
deployed, saving their lives, deputies said.
Paramedics said all of the injuries
appeared to be moderate, but the trio was helicoptered out
because of the severity of the blunt force impact, as evidenced
by the engine block that was shoved above the dashboard radio
in the car.
The truck driver was not hurt.
PCH was closed for about 30 minutes until 9
a.m. while the helicopter landed on the roadway.
