Five Walk Away From High-Speed Crash of Car, Pickup on Freeway
A car and a pickup rolled over repeatedly after colliding on the Riverside Freeway on Sunday, but all five people in the vehicles walked away from the crash.
Accident investigators said a truck was heading east at about 80 m.p.h., when it passed a car on the right and attempted to move back into the fast lane.
But the Toyota pickup struck a car ahead of it in the center lane, sending the car tumbling over at least twice, investigators said. The car, a small compact, came to rest on its roof, on the Main Street off-ramp.
The car’s driver and two passengers walked away from the demolished auto with only cuts. A third passenger may have suffered a broken collarbone and broken fingers, but he was also able to walk away, investigators said.
The pickup, meanwhile, rolled over at least three times. It stopped right-side-up but facing the wrong way in the freeway’s fast lane. The driver suffered only cuts, according to investigators.
John Anderson, a California Highway Patrol public information officer in Riverside, said the CHP plans to seek drunk-driving charges against Scot Quinn, 22, of Riverside, driver of the pickup. Both the truck and car were destroyed by the collision, Anderson said.
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