4 Teen-Agers Injured in Head-On Collision

Four Saugus High School students were injured, none of them seriously, when their car was hit head-on by a second vehicle on a two-lane stretch of upper Bouquet Canyon Road, the California Highway Patrol reported Saturday.

The driver of the second car, William Hunt, 43, of Saugus was arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving, said CHP Sgt. Scott Jones. Hunt was being held at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Hunt was driving his 1990 Thunderbird north on the narrow roadway shortly after 10 p.m. Friday when his car swerved into the southbound lane, colliding with the car carrying the students, Jones said.

The 17-year-old female driver of the second car, a 1987 Volvo, received moderate injuries in the crash, authorities said. Injuries to her three passengers, a boy and two girls, were minor, Jones said. The teen-agers’ names were not released. All were treated at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, where the driver was in stable condition Saturday, a spokeswoman said.

Jones said the teen-agers, who were returning home from a party, probably would have been injured more seriously had they not been wearing seat belts.