Three women from Orange County who were rideshare passengers, including two sisters, were killed early Saturday, Aug. 26, when the car was hit broadside by another vehicle at a south Los Angeles in…
Three women from Orange County who were rideshare passengers, including two sisters, were killed early Saturday, Aug. 26, when the car was hit broadside by another vehicle at a south Los Angeles intersection, authorities said.Kimberly Izquierdo, 27, of Santa Ana; Juvelyn Arroyo, 23, of San Juan Capistrano; and Veronica Amezola, 23, of Santa Ana, died in the collision, the Los Angeles Police Department said.Arroyo was a childhood friend of the sisters, according to the page.
LAPD Officer Rosario Cervantes said a Mercedes headed north on Vermont ran a red light and plowed into the Honda, which was westbound on Century. “He [passed] the vehicles that were stopped at the red light, doing the right thing. He passes on the left side of them, into the turn lanes and goes around them and strikes the victims,” LAPD Detective Ryan Moreno said of the Mercedes driver,Fox11 reported that the women were all sitting in the back seat of an Uber, that a male passenger in the front seat was injured and the female driver was critically injured.
The Mercedes driver was in the hospital, Cervantes said. She said investigators have not determined why the Mercedes ran the red light. The LAPD identified the Mercedes driver as 31-year-old Gregory Black. He faces charges of vehicular manslaughter, the LAPD said.
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