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/7623 Message Board Post: Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest CA Kern County December 29, 1992 BIG RIGS COLLIDE, ONE MAN KILLED A Bakersfield man died during the holiday weekend when his truck tractor and trailer collided with another vehicle. The accident occured at about 6:20 am Saturday on State Route 14, south of Jawbone Canyon Road. Daniel Bonelli, 55, was pronounced dead at the scene according to the California Highway Patrol in Mojave. Salvador Reyes, 37, of Sylmar, was driving the game type of big rig northbound on State Route 14 when he noticed the southbound truck drifting into the northbound lane. Reyes braked and steered right but Bonelli in the southbound truck kept drifting into the opposite lane. The trucks sidswiped each other and Bonelli was ejected from his truck. Both trucks ran off the east side of the road and rested in the desert. A highway patrol officer said if Bonelli had been wearing his seatbelt he would have lived. He said Bonelli probably fell asleep while driving. Rey and his passenger, 10 year old Salvador Reyes, Jr. were not injured. They were both wearing seat belts.