JohnHKart
02-10-05, 09:32 AM
Scary how these kids do this with no car control skills, training or ontrack racing experience. I'm just glad this loser didn't take anybody innocent out. Good riddance.
John
La Mirada man involved in race
By Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell , Staff Writer
EAST WHITTIER -- Authorities on Wednesday identified a young man killed in a head-on crash that investigators believe was preceded by a street race.
County coroner's officials said the victim was 18-year-old Juan Aguero of La Mirada.
Meanwhile, California Highway Patrol officials continued investigating the collision, which occurred about 2:30 p.m. Monday on Imperial Highway, near Tigrina Avenue, in unincorporated East Whittier.
CHP officials are seeking information on the driver of a red, two-door, sports car-type vehicle witnesses said they saw racing against the Acura driven by Aguero. That second driver fled after the collision, officials said.
Witnesses said the two cars were traveling at up to 80 mph, driving in all lanes and on the center median, when the Acura lost control and crossed onto the wrong side of Imperial, slamming head-on into a Toyota Sienna minivan.
Aguero died at a hospital. Three people in the van, a mother and two children, were not seriously injured, officials said.
Because Aguero was not carrying any identification, it took authorities a few days to identify him.
Anyone with information about the race or the collision was asked to call Detective Pete Sutherland of the CHP's Santa Fe Springs Office at (562) 868-0503.
John
La Mirada man involved in race
By Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell , Staff Writer
EAST WHITTIER -- Authorities on Wednesday identified a young man killed in a head-on crash that investigators believe was preceded by a street race.
County coroner's officials said the victim was 18-year-old Juan Aguero of La Mirada.
Meanwhile, California Highway Patrol officials continued investigating the collision, which occurred about 2:30 p.m. Monday on Imperial Highway, near Tigrina Avenue, in unincorporated East Whittier.
CHP officials are seeking information on the driver of a red, two-door, sports car-type vehicle witnesses said they saw racing against the Acura driven by Aguero. That second driver fled after the collision, officials said.
Witnesses said the two cars were traveling at up to 80 mph, driving in all lanes and on the center median, when the Acura lost control and crossed onto the wrong side of Imperial, slamming head-on into a Toyota Sienna minivan.
Aguero died at a hospital. Three people in the van, a mother and two children, were not seriously injured, officials said.
Because Aguero was not carrying any identification, it took authorities a few days to identify him.
Anyone with information about the race or the collision was asked to call Detective Pete Sutherland of the CHP's Santa Fe Springs Office at (562) 868-0503.