LOCAL : Drivers Aid Castaic Crash Victim
The California Highway Patrol this morning credited several passers-by with saving the life of a woman whose car rear-ended a truck and was then engulfed in flames on the Golden State Freeway near Castaic.
The passers-by left their cars on the freeway and quickly pulled Lisa Webb from her burning Volkswagen Beetle after the 8:30 p.m. accident Thursday. CHP Officer A. J. Torres said Webb, 27, of Bakersfield suffered second- and third-degree burns over 30% of her body and was in serious condition at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia.
Torres said Webb is being investigated for allegedly driving drunk.
Webb was driving south at a high rate of speed on the freeway’s down slope near Castaic when she passed a slow-moving car and crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer going about 40 m.p.h., Torres said. The Volkswagen became caught under the rear of the trailer and was dragged 900 feet until the truck driver, Kenneth Angel, 28, of Whittier, could pull to the shoulder. Angel was not injured.
“The dragging caused sparks which caught the Volkswagen on fire,” Torres said.
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