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4 People Killed, 2 Injured in Head-On Crash

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Four people were killed and two others were injured Thursday night when an Acura Integra speeding down Soledad Canyon Road hurtled through the center divider and smashed head-on into a blue Mustang, officials said.

Witnesses said the white Acura, with five teenage occupants, was going an estimated 90 to 100 mph down a bicycle lane on Soledad Canyon Road near Sand Canyon Road, trying to pass another car on the right, said Sgt. Steven Wilson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Santa Clarita station.

Shortly after 8 p.m., the Acura swerved to the left, spun out, and crashed through the center divider, hitting the oncoming Ford Mustang, Wilson said.

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The unidentified male driver of the Mustang and three teenagers in the Acura were killed instantly, authorities said.

Authorities could not immediately identify any of the victims, but several witnesses at the scene said the three killed in the Acura were boys, seniors at Canyon High School here. Rap music was still blaring from the car radio hours after the crash.

At least two of the dead had been ejected from their vehicle, said Jim Crawford, battalion chief of Los Angeles County Fire Department.

The two surviving victims, who were taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, were identified by a nursing supervisor as a 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man, both from Canyon Country.

The supervisor said both were in fair condition.

Investigators closed off a quarter-mile area around the crash site and were still investigating the case late Thursday.

Soledad Canyon is a busy thoroughfare for the Canyon Country area of Santa Clarita, Wilson said. In 1998, the intersection of Soledad Canyon and Sand Canyon Road was one of the nine worst in Los Angeles County for accidents caused by drivers running red lights, according to the Automobile Assn. of Southern California.

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Times staff photographer Brian Vander Brug contributed to this story.

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