This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7604 Message Board Post: Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest Ca Kern County March 18, 2005 Front Page MAN DIES, WOMEN INJURED AFTER THROWN FROM VEHICLE A Trona man was killed Thursday afternoon when he was thrown from the car he was a passenger in. Robert Homan Jr. 46, died at about 2 pm at the scene of the accident on Trona Road just north of Lakeview Drive. Homan was a passenger in a 1991 Honda being driven by Theresa Sanders, 22, also of Trona who suffered major injuries and was flown from the accident to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. Sanders and Homan were thrown from the car when it spun and flipped after Sanders took a curve in the road too fast, hitting the shoulder. "She was going really fast," said Teri Pepper who saw the accident happen while she was driving to Trona. "She got off the road onto the right shoulder, then tried getting back on the road and overcorrected," Pepper said Homan "had a pulse and was breathing" when emergency medical technicians arrived but apparently went into cardiac arrest and couldn't be revived. Sanders was screaming in pain as emergency medical technicians placed her in a neck brace and onto a gurney. Witnesses at the scene said the car went airborne and landed approximately 70 feet from the road. An update on Sanders' condition was not available by press time. News Review newspaper Ridgecrest CA March 23, 2005 Front Page PASSENGER DIES IN TRONA ROAD ROLLOVER A single vehicle accident on Trona Road north of Lakeview Drive killed on person and sent the other to the hospital with major injuries on Thursday. The accident occurred when 22 year old Theresa Sanders of Trona approached a curve in Trona Road "at a high rate of speed" said California Highway Patrol. According to the official report Sanders lost control of the vehicle as she entered the curve, causing her '91 Mazda Protege to skid sideways off the road. It collided with a raised dirt berm on the shoulder launching the vehicle into the rollover. Sanders and her passenger 46 year old Robert Homan of Trona were ejected from the vehicle as it rolled into the desert. Homan and Sanders survived the initial impact. But Homan had suffered massive trauma and he died at the scene despite the efforts of rescuers. Sanders was also severely injured. A Mercy Air helicopter transported her to Arrowhead Regioanla Medial Center for treatment. As of yesterday she was listed in good condition. Although excessive speed appears to have played a role in the crase, the cause is still under investigation. Partr of the investigation is focusng on whether Sanders and Hunsacker whose seat belts were equipped with automatic shoulder restraints were wearing their lap belts at the time of the crash.