Accidental Deaths San Bernardino County

Half a dozen racers were waiting at the top of a steep hill called Big Bowl in Running Springs while veteran speed skier David James Erikson tore through the course. "We heard the time. The speed came over the radio at 84 m.p.h. And after that I heard a real loud noise," said Brad Daniels, 29, a racer from Laguna Niguel who shuddered at the memory. "I thought in my own head, maybe he hit a lift tower or something, I hope he didn't," Daniels recalled Saturday.

Four members of a Los Angeles family were killed and three children remained hospitalized Monday after their van overturned. The family was returning Sunday from a weekend camping trip to Lake Havasu when their minivan rolled over shortly before 2 p.m. on Interstate 40, about 50 miles west of Needles. Nine family members were in the van, California Highway Patrol Officer M.O. Baker said. The van's rated capacity is seven occupants.

A fourth Anaheim teen-ager died here Sunday from injuries suffered when the car he was riding in with seven friends overturned on a desert road near Victorville early Saturday. Tony Fuentes, 17, died about 1 p.m. at San Bernardino Medical Center without regaining consciousness. "He had many big problems when he was brought in," said Sandy Steele, the hospital's nursing supervisor. "He was on a respirator with chest tubes and he died of cardiac and respiratory failure."

The second day of a summer heat wave scorched Southern California on Friday, breaking records and testing the thermometer's limits as temperatures soared into the triple digits in the region's valley and mountain communities. Searing temperatures may also have contributed to the death of a Lakewood woman, whose body was found Friday near a call box on Interstate 40 in San Bernardino County, about seven miles east of the desert community of Ludlow, authorities said. The body of Patricia J.

The second day of a summer heat wave scorched Southern California on Friday, breaking records and testing the thermometer's limits as temperatures soared into the triple digits in the region's valley and mountain communities. Searing temperatures may also have contributed to the death of a Lakewood woman, whose body was found Friday near a call box on Interstate 40 in San Bernardino County, about seven miles east of the desert community of Ludlow, authorities said. The body of Patricia J.

Four members of a Los Angeles family were killed and three children remained hospitalized Monday after their van overturned. The family was returning Sunday from a weekend camping trip to Lake Havasu when their minivan rolled over shortly before 2 p.m. on Interstate 40, about 50 miles west of Needles. Nine family members were in the van, California Highway Patrol Officer M.O. Baker said. The van's rated capacity is seven occupants.

Southern California Gas Co. is facing mounting criticism from a coalition of consumer organizations, politicians and union officials over changes that critics contend will reduce customer services and could pose public safety risks. SoCal Gas says the changes in current and proposed customer services will not pose a safety threat.

A fourth Anaheim teen-ager died here Sunday from injuries suffered when the car he was riding in with seven friends overturned on a desert road near Victorville early Saturday. Tony Fuentes, 17, died about 1 p.m. at San Bernardino Medical Center without regaining consciousness. "He had many big problems when he was brought in," said Sandy Steele, the hospital's nursing supervisor. "He was on a respirator with chest tubes and he died of cardiac and respiratory failure."

Southern California Gas Co. is facing mounting criticism from a coalition of consumer organizations, politicians and union officials over changes that critics contend will reduce customer services and could pose public safety risks. SoCal Gas says the changes in current and proposed customer services will not pose a safety threat.

Half a dozen racers were waiting at the top of a steep hill called Big Bowl in Running Springs while veteran speed skier David James Erikson tore through the course. "We heard the time. The speed came over the radio at 84 m.p.h. And after that I heard a real loud noise," said Brad Daniels, 29, a racer from Laguna Niguel who shuddered at the memory. "I thought in my own head, maybe he hit a lift tower or something, I hope he didn't," Daniels recalled Saturday.