A head-on crash on San Francisquito Canyon Road led to two people being extracted from their cars and taken from the scene for medical care Sunday night, after which California Highway Patrol officers reported finding multiple weapons in one of the vehicles.
Carlos Burgos-Lopez, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol’s Newhall-area office, said CHP personnel were dispatched to the scene at 10:21 p.m. on the 35100 block of San Francisquito. The caller described two vehicles involved in the crash, Burgos-Lopez said.
Burgos-Lopez said the crash was determined to be a head-on collision between a green Nissan Altima and gray Honda Accord. Information available at the time suggests the two drivers were the only people involved in the crash, Burgos-Lopez said.
Howard Tieu, a spokesman for the L.A. County Fire Department, said that Fire Department units were dispatched to the scene at 10:26 p.m. Units arrived at the scene at 10:44 p.m. and extracted two people from their vehicles, Tieu said.
Both drivers were transported to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital for treatment, Burgos-Lopez said. Tieu said those transports occurred between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
During the crash investigation, Burgos-Lopez said, multiple firearms, including a shotgun, a rifle-style firearm and a handgun, were found in one of the cars, but it wasn’t immediately known which one as of the publication of this story.
The scene was closed at 12:27 a.m. Monday, Tieu said, and the incident is still under investigation.
