All 5 in Family Die in Head-On Crash on Mountain Road

FRAZIER PARK, Calif. — All five members of a family were killed and two other people were injured in the head-on collision of a pickup truck and a car on a two-lane mountain road, authorities said Thursday.

The dead included three small children in the family’s car.

Timothy Lovell, 31, of Frazier Park was driving east on the road with his family near the Los Angeles County-Kern County line when the accident occurred Wednesday afternoon, California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Maas said.

Car, Truck Collide

A westbound pickup truck driven by John O. Reed, also of Frazier Park, allegedly crossed the center line and struck the Lovell vehicle, Maas said.

Frazier Park is just west of Interstate 5 about 65 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Lovell was airlifted to Kern County Medical Center in Bakersfield, where he was pronounced dead, Maas said.

His wife, Nora, 27, was dead at the accident scene, the officer said. Two of the Lovell’s three children, 5-year-old Justin and 3-week-old Carol, were pronounced dead at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, and the third child, Nancy, 3, was taken to UCLA Medical Center with severe head injuries, Maas said.

“She died this morning,” UCLA spokesman Mike Burns said Thursday.

Reed and passenger Tami Herman, 19, also of Frazier Park, were taken to Henry Mayo Hospital, Maas said.

Reed’s condition was upgraded to fair, and Herman, who is five months’ pregnant, was listed in critical condition, according to a nursing supervisor who said the woman’s fetus was still alive.

“Witnesses said they saw the westbound pickup truck veer into a Toyota that was eastbound on Frazier Park Mountain Road,” said Shawn Corbeil, a Kern County firefighter.

CHP investigators found no evidence of alcohol or drug use and said the road was clear along the stretch where the accident occurred, Maas said.