The woman who died in a crash on the 14 Freeway in Acton in the middle of October was identified by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office Friday. Francesca Becket, 50, from Palmdale was the woman who died in the 14 Freeway crash in Acton, according to officials with the Medical Examiner’s Office.   Around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, ...

An Acton man has been identified as the person killed in a head-on collision on Sierra Highway Wednesday morning. Frank Navarro, 47, a resident of Acton, has been identified as the person killed in a Wednesday morning crash on Sierra Highway, according to Kelly Vail, spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office. The head-on traffic collision was reported ...

A fatal crash in the pre-dawn hours blocked part of southbound Sierra Highway on Wednesday morning. At about 5:50 a.m. Wednesday, emergency responders received reports of a traffic collision near Sierra Highway and Vasquez Canyon Road in Canyon Country, according to Fred Fielding, spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. “It was a two-vehicle collision,” Fielding said. One person ...

A Bowman High School graduate died in a single-vehicle car crash in North Hollywood , and now a GoFundMe has been launched to help cover his funeral expenses. Around 1:45 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, firefighters with the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) responded to a crash in the 11600 block of W. Vanowen Street, south of Lemp Avenue, in North ...

A person died after their vehicle crashed into a parked semi-truck in Castaic Tuesday morning. Around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, first responders received reports of a crash on Highway 126 and Travel Village, said Officer Carlos Burgos-Lopez, spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol (CHP) Newhall Area Office. “A white Ford collided with a parked semi-truck,” Burgos-Lopez said. The driver of the ...

One person is dead and two others were transported to a local hospital following a three-car crash on the northbound 14 Freeway Sunday night. The crash was reported at 9:27 p.m. just south of the Escondido Canyon Road exit in Agua Dulce, involving a blue Lexus SUV, a green Ford Fiesta and a possible white truck, according to the California ...

Two Canyon Country residents were killed in a head-on crash on Sierra Highway in Acton early Tuesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The fatal crash was reported around 6:20 a.m. Tuesday just south of Crown Valley Road. CHP investigators determined a black Infiniti Q50, driven by 22-year-old Maximus Calzada of Canyon Country, was traveling on Sierra Highway ...

Two people died in a crash in Acton Tuesday morning. Around 6:20 a.m. Tuesday, first responders received reports of a traffic collision on Sierra Highway near Crown Valley Road in Acton, said Edith Lai, spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. When units arrived on scene they found four patients, two of which were pronounced dead on arrival, according ...

A 2025 Golden Valley graduate has been identified as the teen killed in a Sierra Highway crash on Thursday.  Sinai Barraza, 18, from Santa Clarita, a 2025 graduate of Golden Valley High School, was identified as the woman who died in a Sierra Highway crash Thursday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office.  The collision was reported ...

The driver of a vehicle that overturned on the 5 Freeway in Newhall last Friday has died, law enforcement confirmed.  Last Friday, a vehicle overturned and caught fire on the northbound 5 Freeway in Newhall, and the driver succumbed to his injuries, according to Carlos Burgos-Lopez, spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol. While Burgos-Lopez was able to confirm the driver ...