By BRANDON LOWREY
Four people in their teens or early 20s were dead on arrival and three were critically injured in a traffic collision in Lancaster on Saturday night.
The two-car collision was reported at 6:27 p.m. near the intersection of 10th Street East and East Avenue G (map). Rescuers arrived to find four people dead at the scene, according to Inspector Tony Akins of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Firefighters arrived to find a four-door sedan and a pickup truck in a ditch at the side of a rural desert road. One of the vehicles ran a stop sign and broadsided the other, sending them both into the ditch, said Sgt. Tom Lackey of the California Highway Patrol.
At least two of the victims who died were not wearing seat belts, Lackey said.
The crash remained under investigation. Additional information was not immediately available.
The only known witnesses to the crash were inside the involved vehicles, CHP officials said.
Anyone with information about the crash was encouraged to call the CHP.
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