Oxnard Street

An 8-year-old Oxnard boy, who was hit by a car as he ran across an Oxnard street, was declared dead Tuesday morning, a county coroner official said. Francisco Sinsun Jr. was running along C Street on Sunday with a friend just south of Rosa Street when he was hit by a car driven by Segundina Gomez, 56, of Oxnard. No charges have been filed against Gomez, but police are continuing to investigate the incident. The boy, whose neck was broken, was taken to St. John's Regional Medical Center.

A 55-year-old Northridge pedestrian was killed Monday morning in a hit and run, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Charles Ernest Lawson was crossing Oxnard Street, west of Donna Avenue, when he was hit by a car traveling east at 5:40 a.m., police said. Lawson was then hit by a second car, police said. The driver of the first car stopped and rendered aid, but the driver of the second car stopped briefly and then fled, police said. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call Det. William Bustos at (818)

A 34-year-old woman who was hit by a car while crossing an Oxnard street has died, authorities said Monday. Marla J. Davis of Oxnard died at 11:15 a.m. Sunday at St. John's Regional Medical Center, the coroner's office said. Davis was walking across Oxnard Boulevard at 9:48 p.m. Friday when she was hit by a car driven by Duane Vance, Oxnard Police Officer Joe Johnson said. Vance, who was traveling at 15 to 20 m.p.h., saw Davis just as he hit her, Johnson said.

Re "Ventura Freeway Plan Sparks Outcry in Valley," May 13: Funny how a few people living along the 101 Freeway feel they can force hundreds of thousands of people a day to suffer in gridlock because they were foolish enough to buy property next to the freeway. The state should immediately enact its power of eminent domain and take all the property along the 101 Freeway to begin adding multiple lanes in both directions and over the hill along the 405 Freeway. The state of California should not stop there; it should take the land needed to build the originally intended freeway along Reseda Boulevard going over the hill.

Arson destroyed a vehicle on an Oxnard street early Wednesday morning, authorities said. Witnesses to the 2 a.m. fire in the 500 block of Hull Place, near Oxnard Airport, said they saw two men leaving the area about the time the fire began. The vehicle's owner, who authorities said has requested anonymity, told investigators the fire may be linked to earlier vandalism of his vehicle, as well as an arson case involving a friend's car in Los Angeles.

A 55-year-old Northridge pedestrian was killed Monday morning in a hit and run, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Charles Ernest Lawson was crossing Oxnard Street, west of Donna Avenue, when he was hit by a car traveling east at 5:40 a.m., police said. Lawson was then hit by a second car, police said. The driver of the first car stopped and rendered aid, but the driver of the second car stopped briefly and then fled, police said. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call Det. William Bustos at (818)

As a former resident of Van Nuys, near Oxnard Street and Ethel Avenue, I am shocked and concerned that special interests want to invest millions of dollars of public money to build a busway in a sparsely populated area in the corridor from Woodman Avenue and Oxnard to Chandler Boulevard and Whitsett Avenue. With the new 2000 census numbers out, I think it is time to use some good business sense and route the busway along Oxnard from Woodman east to Lankershim Boulevard. The population density is multi-thousands with the densely populated apartments along Oxnard, while in multi-hundreds in the Chandler sector.

A 53-year-old North Hollywood man was killed Sunday night when his speeding car hit a curb, shot into the air and fell from an elevated section of the Hollywood Freeway to a park below, the California Highway Patrol said Monday. Witnesses said the man, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives, was driving south at more than 100 m.p.h. when the accident occurred north of the Oxnard Street off-ramp in North Hollywood about 8:35 p.m., CHP Officer Monty Keifer said.

For those who couldn't fly east or travel north to view the fall foliage, Los Angeles has come of age in this department. Liquidambar (faux maple) trees and Chinese magnolia have sprung up across the Los Angeles Basin and San Fernando Valley with a vengeance. Venture over Mulholland Drive or take the Ventura Freeway through the Valley and the view is spectacular! Reds, oranges and yellows dot the landscape as far as the eye can see. Trees in the warehouse store on Sepulveda Boulevard and Oxnard Street mimic Vermont or New Hampshire.

A car traveling in the wrong direction on an Oxnard street collided with a motorcycle Wednesday afternoon, killing the cycle's driver, police said. Jason Roberts, 23, of Oxnard died at St. John's Regional Medical Center after being thrown from his motorcycle, said Sgt. John Crombach of the Oxnard Police Department. The coroner's office said an autopsy report will be available today.

A 22-year-old Santa Paula man was shot in the head and critically wounded by an unknown assailant Tuesday night, minutes after his parents dropped him off at a friend's house in Oxnard. The victim, whose identity was not released by police, was in intensive care at St. John's Regional Medical Center, said Oxnard Cmdr. Bryan MacDonald. He and the woman he was visiting were standing outside near her apartment in the 1000 block of Hull Place about 8:20 p.m.

For those who couldn't fly east or travel north to view the fall foliage, Los Angeles has come of age in this department. Liquidambar (faux maple) trees and Chinese magnolia have sprung up across the Los Angeles Basin and San Fernando Valley with a vengeance. Venture over Mulholland Drive or take the Ventura Freeway through the Valley and the view is spectacular! Reds, oranges and yellows dot the landscape as far as the eye can see. Trees in the warehouse store on Sepulveda Boulevard and Oxnard Street mimic Vermont or New Hampshire.

As a former resident of Van Nuys, near Oxnard Street and Ethel Avenue, I am shocked and concerned that special interests want to invest millions of dollars of public money to build a busway in a sparsely populated area in the corridor from Woodman Avenue and Oxnard to Chandler Boulevard and Whitsett Avenue. With the new 2000 census numbers out, I think it is time to use some good business sense and route the busway along Oxnard from Woodman east to Lankershim Boulevard. The population density is multi-thousands with the densely populated apartments along Oxnard, while in multi-hundreds in the Chandler sector.

Calling for an end to the violence, Oxnard leaders and families of recent shooting victims have started an effort they hope will lead to talking, not shooting, among rival gangs. The first examples will come Thursday when at least 20 Oxnard residents, among them city, church and police officials as well as longtime community activists, meet at 10 a.m. at Plaza Park to call for a gang truce and for peace over the holidays.

An Oxnard bicyclist was hit by a car and killed Friday afternoon, apparently after weaving through traffic on a congested street, police said. Jerardo Cruz was riding north crossing 5th Street just west of Ventura Road when he rode between a big rig and other vehicles stopped in traffic, police said. He then crossed into the path of a Ford Mustang driven by George Albert Burke, who lives on the Port Hueneme naval base, police said.

Saviers Road could be called "The Spice Road" in some blocks, so dotted is the thoroughfare with Oriental and Southeast Asian grocery stores and restaurants. It's a sort of Pacific Rim restaurant row. In particular, the 3600 block of Saviers would make an immigrant from Manila feel right at home. It made the Market Lady decide she was hungry for some delicious pork adobo, which is perhaps the Philippines' most famous dish.

We are homeowners near the site where a new mall is to be built in North Hollywood (April 29). We have lived in the area for many years and take pride in our medium-income residential area. Times have changed since we bought here. Cars park on the street each day and leave their trash from the fast-food chains nearby. Many of our neighbors are elderly and are afraid to walk on the streets even during the day. We do not need any more traffic or gridlock. Both of us use Laurel Canyon Boulevard going south to go to work each day. The traffic is so bad that often it is backed up several blocks to the on-ramp.

Re "Ventura Freeway Plan Sparks Outcry in Valley," May 13: Funny how a few people living along the 101 Freeway feel they can force hundreds of thousands of people a day to suffer in gridlock because they were foolish enough to buy property next to the freeway. The state should immediately enact its power of eminent domain and take all the property along the 101 Freeway to begin adding multiple lanes in both directions and over the hill along the 405 Freeway. The state of California should not stop there; it should take the land needed to build the originally intended freeway along Reseda Boulevard going over the hill.

Like Santa with his list, Steve Buratti has a story to tell about nearly every house in his holiday-obsessed neighborhood, the four-block stretch of F Street known this time of year as Christmas Tree Lane. There's the homeowner who landscaped his frontyard to accommodate the life-size Nativity scene he puts up every year, and the couple who aren't living in their house during remodeling but decided to decorate anyway.