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/8093 Message Board Post: Accident Kills Young Matron Beverly Vicki Carpenter, former resident of Long Beach and just dmoved to Mojave on Barstow Road was killed Tuesday night. in an auto crash on Hwy. 6 and Ave. B, one mile south of the Kern County line. Two other vehicles, a car and a pick-up, figured in the fatal accident. According to Highway Patrolman, R. L. Pfieffer, Mrs. Carpenter was northbound on Hwy. 6 shortly before 7 p.m. when she went over the center line of the highway and collided with a car and a pick-up, both driven by residents of Lancaster. Word reached Mr. Ivan Carpenter shortly after and not having any transportation, he went to the Mojave Sheriff's substation and an officer drove him to the County Line where he was picked up by an L. A. County Sheriff's unit and taken to the scene of the accident. The body was taken to Mumaw Funeral Home in Lancaster where arrangements are pending. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 12 Dec 1957