No names have been released.
Officer Ed Jacobs of the California Highway Patrol said a man in a black pickup truck was driving south in northbound lanes just south of Escondido Canyon Road at 3:28 a.m. Saturday when he collided with two other vehicles.
The offending driver is in critical condition at Providence Holy Cross Hospital.
A person in another vehicle was killed. He was identified only as a black male, age 60.
Two other people, apparently in the deceased man’s vehicle, were listed in critical condition.
A third vehicle was a rideshare van that was transporting nine passengers to an aerospace work site in Palmdale, likely Plant 42.
Two of the people in the van sustained minor injuries.
The offending driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Jacobs said.
The crash occurred less than a week after another wrong-way driver, believed to be on drugs, caused a mutli-car pileup that left three people with life-threatening injuries.
More information to follow.
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