Published in the Burbank Daily Review, Monday, February 20, 1984
CRASH KILLS WOMAN CLOSE TO HER HOME
BURBANK - A Burbank woman was fatally injured Saturday at Victory Boulevard and North Valley Street - less than a block from her home- when another car broadsided her at an estimated 50 mph, police said. Linda Lervold, 39, was pronounced dead at Saint Joseph Medical Center of blunt trauma to her head, chest, pelvis and leg, according to police reports.
Lervold, a resident of the 2100 block of North Valley Street, pulled onto Victory Boulevard at 6: 15 p.m. after stopping at the stop sign at Valley and Victory. A car driven by Daniel Nagy, 28, of Burbank, plowed into her in the intersection. Police said Nagy, driving a 1969 Pontiac GTO, and a friend in a 1953 Chevrolet apparently stopped at a traffic light at Victory and Maple Street at the same time.
Nagy gunned his engine "as a joke" and the car burned rubber 50 feet down the street, according to police reports. Nagy had reached an estimated 45-50 mph when he saw Lervold's 1972 Ford Pinto, swerved to the left to avoid a collision, but rammed into the driver's side of car, police said.
Lervold was trapped inside the car for several minutes before fire crews extricated her with a "jaws of life" device, Paramedics rushed her to Saint Joseph Medical Center but she was not breathing and had no pulse when she arrived at the hospital.
Nagy and his 16-year-old passenger were treated at Saint Joseph's for minor injuries and were released, hospital officials said. Nagy was not cited at the scene of the accident. Traffic investigators will conduct a follow-up investigation, Sgt. Jeff Pratt said.
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