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/8126 Message Board Post: Headon Crash Kills Boy 9, Father Injured Bob Singleton finally found a job he liked with the California Portland Cement Plant, and better yet, they liked him. So he went to Van Nuys Friday to fetch his family and move them up to make Mojave their new home. Dad and his two boys were in the front car, with the smaller boy asleep in the back seat but David, nine years old, was too excited to sleep, so he sat big eyed in the front seat beside his dad. Mother and the little daughter followed closely behind in a second car. About 10:30 p.m. suddenly Mrs. Singleton saw the front car swerve then a terrible head-on crash as her husband's car and one containing two sailors from China Lake collided 2 miles north of Rosamond. The sleeping boy was thrown oft, the seat and hurt his leg badly; Bob Singleton was taken to the Mojave Hospital with a brain concussion and David, the excited little man, was rendered unconscious as he was thrown against the windshield. In the ambulance which picked him up, the attendants worked feveris! hly without daring to remove him for 3 1/2 hours until at 2:53 a.m. the Grim Reaper took over. His body was taken to the Rainwater Funeral Home in Van Nuys where services will be held with interment in Van Nuys. The two sailors Wiliam M. Savage and Donald F. Fine were both injured and the ambulance took them to the MCAAS hospital from which they were later removed to the hospital at Edwards Air Force Base. Coroner Newman held an inquest on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the O'Donnell Funeral. Home in Mojave. A check at the Mojave Hospital revealed that Mr. Singleton is still a patient in a fair condition while the son, Robert is in satisfactory shape. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy Mojave Desert News, California City, Kern, CA. Published: 18 Jul 1957