LOS ANGELES >> A trial date could be scheduled in August in the case of a Fontana woman accused of driving the wrong way on the 60 Freeway and causing a crash that killed six people last year.

A trial date would come after months of pretrial hearings for Olivia Carolee Culbreath, 22, who was allegedly driving her Chevrolet Camaro east on the westbound 60 in Diamond Bar when, going the wrong way, she crash head-on into a sport-utility vehicle and another vehicle crashed into the SUV, the California Highway Parol said. Culbreath was driving at speeds close to 100 mph, authorities said.

CHP investigators said witnesses saw Culbreath drinking at a Fullerton bar and grill hour prior to the crash.

Two women traveling in Culbreath’s car died as a result of the crash. One was Culbreath’s sister, Maya, 24, of Rialto. The other victim was Kristin Young, 21, of Chino.

Four Huntington Park residents in the SUV were thrown from the vehicle. The four victims were Gregorio Mejia-Martinez, 47; Leticia Ibarra, 42; Jessica Mejia, 20; and Ester Delgado, 80.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys were in court Wednesday hashing out details. Defense attorney Robert Sheahen went before Judge Sam Ohta at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles and said expert witnesses will be called to testify during the trial. Culbreath was not in court Wednesday.

The defense team has identified areas in which experts will be needed to provide testimony, but the actual experts have not been identified, Sheahen said, and he was not in a position Wednesday to provide that information to Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Padilla.

Padilla said the defense team had informed him that by Aug. 5 they would provide her all the discovery information they collect. She has turned over her information to the defense.

“At this point I’ve provided almost 1,000 pages of discovery,” Padilla said.

She added she needs the names of the expert witnesses in order to prepare for a trial.

Sheahen said his team is working with lawyers handling a civil case involving Culbreath and will have the experts identified within 30 days.

The judge directed Sheahen to give the names of the expert witnesses to the prosecution, once available, and asked the two sides to provide him a report the week of July 15 on their progress.

Lawyers in the case are expected to be in court Aug. 5 for a pre-trial conference and possibly the setting of a trial start date.

Culbreath, who was being held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles in lieu of $6 million bail, suffered significant injuries in the crash and requires the use of a wheel chair. She has been in and out of the hospital recently, said Daniel Perlman, one of her lawyers.

LOS ANGELES >> A trial date could be scheduled in August in the case of a Fontana woman accused of driving the wrong way on the 60 Freeway and causing a crash that killed six people last year.

A trial date would come after months of pretrial hearings for Olivia Carolee Culbreath, 22, who was allegedly driving her Chevrolet Camaro east on the westbound 60 in Diamond Bar when, going the wrong way, she crash head-on into a sport-utility vehicle and another vehicle crashed into the SUV, the California Highway Parol said. Culbreath was driving at speeds close to 100 mph, authorities said.

CHP investigators said witnesses saw Culbreath drinking at a Fullerton bar and grill hour prior to the crash.

Two women traveling in Culbreath’s car died as a result of the crash. One was Culbreath’s sister, Maya, 24, of Rialto. The other victim was Kristin Young, 21, of Chino.

Four Huntington Park residents in the SUV were thrown from the vehicle. The four victims were Gregorio Mejia-Martinez, 47; Leticia Ibarra, 42; Jessica Mejia, 20; and Ester Delgado, 80.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys were in court Wednesday hashing out details. Defense attorney Robert Sheahen went before Judge Sam Ohta at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles and said expert witnesses will be called to testify during the trial. Culbreath was not in court Wednesday.

The defense team has identified areas in which experts will be needed to provide testimony, but the actual experts have not been identified, Sheahen said, and he was not in a position Wednesday to provide that information to Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Padilla.

Padilla said the defense team had informed him that by Aug. 5 they would provide her all the discovery information they collect. She has turned over her information to the defense.

“At this point I’ve provided almost 1,000 pages of discovery,” Padilla said.

She added she needs the names of the expert witnesses in order to prepare for a trial.

Sheahen said his team is working with lawyers handling a civil case involving Culbreath and will have the experts identified within 30 days.

The judge directed Sheahen to give the names of the expert witnesses to the prosecution, once available, and asked the two sides to provide him a report the week of July 15 on their progress.

Lawyers in the case are expected to be in court Aug. 5 for a pre-trial conference and possibly the setting of a trial start date.

Culbreath, who was being held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles in lieu of $6 million bail, suffered significant injuries in the crash and requires the use of a wheel chair. She has been in and out of the hospital recently, said Daniel Perlman, one of her lawyers.

WASHINGTON — Accident investigators said Wednesday that the engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone in the moments before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, deepening the mystery of what caused the accident.

Eight people were killed and about 200 more injured in the May 12 derailment.

In an updated report, the National Transportation Safety Board said its analysis of phone records “does not indicate that any calls, texts or data usage occurred during the time the engineer was operating the train.” The agency also said the engineer, Brandon Bostian, didn’t access the train’s Wi-Fi system while he was operating the locomotive.

Investigators have said previously that the train accelerated to 106 miles per hour in the last minute before entering a curve where the speed limit is 50 mph. In the last few seconds the brakes were applied with maximum force, but the train was still traveling at over 100 mph when it left the tracks.

Congress has been pressing the safety board for answers to the key question of whether Bostian was using his phone. Bostian suffered a head injury in the crash, and his attorney has said the engineer doesn’t remember anything after the train pulled out of Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, the last stop before the derailment.

Engineers aren’t allowed to use phones while operating trains or preparing them for movement, but determining whether Bostian was using the phone was a complicated process.

The phone was used to make calls and send text messages the day of the accident, but inconsistencies in phone records presented difficulties, NTSB Chairman Chris Hart told Congress last week. The voice and text messages were recorded in different time zones and may not have been calibrated to the exact time as other equipment on the train, such as a camera focused on the tracks and a recorder that registers how fast the train was moving and actions by the engineer, he said.

Accident investigators have said previously that they have not found any mechanical problems with the train. The track had been inspected not long before the crash.

Later Wednesday, NTSB officials are expected to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee about train safety. One focus of the hearing is positive train control, a technology that can prevent trains from derailing because of excessive speed.

Congress mandated in 2008 that Amtrak, commuter railroads and freight railroads install positive train control by the end of this year. Amtrak still has to do extensive testing of the system but will meet the deadline, officials have said.

WASHINGTON — Accident investigators said Wednesday that the engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone in the moments before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, deepening the mystery of what caused the accident.

Eight people were killed and about 200 more injured in the May 12 derailment.

In an updated report, the National Transportation Safety Board said its analysis of phone records “does not indicate that any calls, texts or data usage occurred during the time the engineer was operating the train.” The agency also said the engineer, Brandon Bostian, didn’t access the train’s Wi-Fi system while he was operating the locomotive.

Investigators have said previously that the train accelerated to 106 miles per hour in the last minute before entering a curve where the speed limit is 50 mph. In the last few seconds the brakes were applied with maximum force, but the train was still traveling at over 100 mph when it left the tracks.

Congress has been pressing the safety board for answers to the key question of whether Bostian was using his phone. Bostian suffered a head injury in the crash, and his attorney has said the engineer doesn’t remember anything after the train pulled out of Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, the last stop before the derailment.

Engineers aren’t allowed to use phones while operating trains or preparing them for movement, but determining whether Bostian was using the phone was a complicated process.

The phone was used to make calls and send text messages the day of the accident, but inconsistencies in phone records presented difficulties, NTSB Chairman Chris Hart told Congress last week. The voice and text messages were recorded in different time zones and may not have been calibrated to the exact time as other equipment on the train, such as a camera focused on the tracks and a recorder that registers how fast the train was moving and actions by the engineer, he said.

Accident investigators have said previously that they have not found any mechanical problems with the train. The track had been inspected not long before the crash.

Later Wednesday, NTSB officials are expected to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee about train safety. One focus of the hearing is positive train control, a technology that can prevent trains from derailing because of excessive speed.

Congress mandated in 2008 that Amtrak, commuter railroads and freight railroads install positive train control by the end of this year. Amtrak still has to do extensive testing of the system but will meet the deadline, officials have said.

A Sun City truck driver was killed early Tuesday morning as he was making a delivery at the Big Lots Distribution Center in Rancho Cucamonga.

Around 3:45 a.m., the unidentified 77-year-old truck driver had parked in the center median of Fourth Street and was trying to cross the street when he was struck by a passing vehicle, according to San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials.

The driver that struck the man remained at the scene and tried to help the injured truck driver, officials said.

Ontario Fire Department personnel drove the man to Kaiser Hospital Fontana, where he was pronounced dead.

Members of the Rancho Cucamonga Major Accident Investigation Team are investigating the fatal crash. It does not appear speed or alcohol were contributing factors, according to a sheriff’s statement.

Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or who might have additional information pertinent to the case is encouraged to contact investigators at 909-477-2800 or 909-477-2817.

A Sun City truck driver was killed early Tuesday morning as he was making a delivery at the Big Lots Distribution Center in Rancho Cucamonga.

Around 3:45 a.m., the unidentified 77-year-old truck driver had parked in the center median of Fourth Street and was trying to cross the street when he was struck by a passing vehicle, according to San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials.

The driver that struck the man remained at the scene and tried to help the injured truck driver, officials said.

Ontario Fire Department personnel drove the man to Kaiser Hospital Fontana, where he was pronounced dead.

Members of the Rancho Cucamonga Major Accident Investigation Team are investigating the fatal crash. It does not appear speed or alcohol were contributing factors, according to a sheriff’s statement.

Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or who might have additional information pertinent to the case is encouraged to contact investigators at 909-477-2800 or 909-477-2817.

All but two lanes of the eastbound 210 Freeway near Carnelian Street were shut down Monday morning following a three-vehicle crash, according to the California Highway Patrol incident log.

The crash, which reportedly began with one vehicle crashing into the center divider, was reported just after 5 a.m.

Several other vehicle struck or had near misses with the spun-out sport utility vehicle.

All but two lanes of the eastbound 210 Freeway near Carnelian Street were shut down Monday morning following a three-vehicle crash, according to the California Highway Patrol incident log.

The crash, which reportedly began with one vehicle crashing into the center divider, was reported just after 5 a.m.

Several other vehicle struck or had near misses with the spun-out sport utility vehicle.

Scott Dixon had a dominating run at Texas Motor Speedway, winning by 7.8 seconds over teammate Tony Kanaan on Saturday night in the fastest IndyCar Series race ever at the track.

Dixon led 97 of the 248 laps in a race that had only two cautions. His second win of the season came with an average speed of 191.940 mph

After anxiety about how the cars would handle on the high-speed, high-banked Texas track with the new aero kits, especially after three Chevrolets went airborne during practice for the Indianapolis 500, there were no accidents.

Driving the No. 9 Chevrolet for Chip Ganassi Racing, Dixon got his 37th career win. The New Zealander also won in 2008 at Texas, which has now hosted 27 IndyCar races.

Team Penske drivers Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya finished third and fourth, respectively. Fifth-place Marco Andretti was the highest-finishing Honda.

After the start of the race was waved off because the field was not properly aligned, the first lap was counted as a caution before taking the green flag the next time at the line.

The only other caution came on lap 84 for debris on the frontstretch.

After the airborne cars at Indianapolis, IndyCar this week mandated the use of closure panels on the rear wheel guards. Those are designed to eliminate lift when an Indy car is traveling backward at a high rate of speed during an accident, and will also be required at California and Pocono.

Ryan Hunter-Reay had the only crash all weekend in Texas, in the first practice Friday when his No. 28 Honda spun and headed backward toward the outside wall. His left rear slammed hard before sliding down the track, but the car never went airborne.

Hunter-Reay finished 18th, seven laps behind Dixon.

Will Power started from the pole at Texas for the third year in a row, but finished 13th, four laps off the pace. His only win in Texas came in the second race of a doubleheader in 2011 when he started third.

Defending race champion Ed Carpenter was done after only 147 laps because of mechanical issues. He had already fallen a couple of laps off the pace in his No. 20 Honda when it parked it and finished 22nd in the 23-car field.

Formula One

Lewis Hamilton has earned the pole for the Canadian Grand Prix.

It’s the fourth time that the reigning Formula One champion will start at the pole on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Hamilton posted the fastest qualifying lap of 1:14.393 over the 2.71-mile course on Montreal’s Ile Notre-Dame. Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg was second in qualifying, about one-third of a second behind.

Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen was third. Valtteri Bottas of Williams was fourth, with Romain Grosjean of Lotus fifth.

It’s the 44th pole of Hamilton’s career. He leads the championship standings by 10 points over Rosberg.

NHRA

Antron Brown raced to his third consecutive No. 1 qualifying position in Top Fuel in the Toyota NHRA Summernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey.

Brown pushed his dragster to the No. 1 spot with a 3.725-second run at 317.57 mph. The 2012 series champion has two victories this season.

Cruz Pedregon topped the Funny Car field, Greg Anderson was the fastest in Pro Stock, and Chip Ellis led the Pro Stock Motorcycle field. Pedregon had a 3.967 at 306.53 in a Toyota Camry, Anderson finished in 6.479 at 214.76 in a Chevrolet Camaro, and Ellis had a 6.801 at 197.16 on a Buell.