The crash occurred on Big Tujunga Canyon Road in the Angeles National Forest north of Altadena at 6:45 p.m. Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Firefighters at the scene treated two injured adults and a female toddler before the victims were airlifted by a Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department helicopter to County-USC Medical Center.
The CHP was investigating why the 2000 Nissan Frontier veered to the right over the dirt embankment and rolled down the mountainside.
According to the CHP, the 27-year-old woman at the wheel suffered a laceration to her left hand, a 56-year-old woman suffered a seatbelt abrasion to her neck, and a 1-year-old girl apparently related to the driver was uninjured. Seatbelts and child safety equipment were in use.
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California possesses serpentine grasslands, oak forests, vernal pools and a variety of other unique habitats on its coast, mountains, rivers, lakes and deserts. These habitats support an incredible diversity of plants and animals, many of which are found nowhere else on the planet. When these factors are combined with one of the largest growing human populations in the country, the result is the highest number of extinct and imperiled species in the continental United States.
Without question, the Golden State is an epicenter of extinction.
The former curator of entomology at the Los Angeles County Museum wrote that in 1940, 25 different types of butterflies could easily be seen in a single day fluttering outside of his office. Today, an astute observer would be extremely lucky to see three species on the grounds of the museum.
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Welcome to The Wild. Winter is an ideal time to explore the close-to-home front range of the Angeles National Forest. Josephine Peak would be a good place to start. It’s not particularly high, at 5,558 feet, but it offers spectacular views of Los Angeles, which can look like the Emerald City of Oz rising in the distance. Turning north toward the forest, you’ll see a vast quilt of canyons and high points in the San Gabriels, most prominent Strawberry Peak.
One of the oddest items on top: Open-air green shelves where hikers have left mementos such as a Yosemite cap, sunscreen, notes, rocks and even a dollar or two. It’s a remnant of a fire lookout that stood from 1937 until it burned down in the Big Tujunga Canyon fire in 1975. I always wondered who Josephine was. The local Sierra Club’s Hundred Peaks Section says a U.S. Geological Survey surveyor named the peak after his wife, Josephine Lippencott. No word on whether