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Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : String of Vehicle Crashes Kills 6 People Over 2 Days : Antelope Valley: A 1-year-old boy is one of a pair of fatalities in an accident in Lancaster on Monday night. Four others die in other incidents.

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Two people, including a 1-year-old boy, were killed in a traffic accident in Lancaster on Monday night, bringing to six the number of persons killed in Antelope Valley crashes in two days.

The other four were killed in a string of single-death accidents that began Sunday.

The child and an adult were killed about 6:30 p.m. on Johnson Road at the point where it becomes 110th Street West, said California Highway Patrol Officer Shirley Gaines.

No other details were available.

One man was killed Monday afternoon in the hills near the California Aqueduct and Avenue M when his off-road truck overturned on top of him, according to Sgt. Bruce Burleson of the Antelope Valley Sheriff’s Station. The dead man was not identified.

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A 75-year-old Palmdale man, Clifford Judevine, died after his car collided with another about 8:15 a.m. Monday at 3rd Street East and Avenue P.

His car was hit by an auto driven by Maria Miller, 36, of Palmdale, police said. Both drivers were taken to Desert Palms Community Hospital where Judevine died, Sheriff’s Investigator David Davidson said.

Miller was in stable condition with face cuts.

Davidson said Judevine failed to yield the right of way to Miller, who was not cited for any violations.

Meanwhile, a Palmdale woman who died Sunday in a crash that injured her three children on 55th Street East at Avenue R-8 in Palmdale was identified by deputies as Maisabel Jacobo, 28.

Jacobo’s younger children--Mayra Garcia, 2, and Luis Garcia, 4--were airlifted to Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena with serious injuries, deputies said. Hospital officials would not reveal the children’s condition.

The driver’s third child, Ignacio Jacobo, 6, was treated at Antelope Valley Hospital and released to relatives, Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Rice said.

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No one in Jacobo’s car was wearing seat belts, and there were no child restraint seats in the vehicle, Rice said.

In another accident, which occurred at 7:10 p.m. Sunday, a 22-year-old Lancaster man was killed in a head-on collision on Sierra Highway near West Mint Canyon Road in Agua Dulce.

The Lancaster man’s station wagon drifted over the center line and struck a pickup truck, said CHP Officer Michelle Esposito.

A coroner’s spokesman said the Lancaster man’s name was being withheld pending notification of his family.

The driver of the pickup, Douglas Siewert, 39, of Canyon Country was reported in good condition Monday at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital.

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