BURBANK : Choir’s Van Plunges Off Freeway; Teen-Ager Dies
A van carrying 14 members of a Portland-based ministry’s choir went off the Ventura Freeway early Friday in Burbank, killing a teen-age girl and injuring nine others, the California Highway Patrol said.
The nondenominational HeavenBound Gospel Music Ministry group had come to Southern California on Thursday, said the Rev. Lonnie Hosley, the group’s founder and leader.
CHP Officer Ed Jones said the rented van was heading west on the Ventura Freeway about 2:30 a.m. when its driver, Kenneth Combs, 30, of Portland, Ore., swerved to avoid a tire. The CHP and riders in the van said the van struck the tire and went out of control. The van overturned and plunged onto Riverside Drive. The dead passenger was identified as LaShay Dorn, 18, of Portland.
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