Irvine : 2 Men Injured as Car Lands in Flood Channel
Two Santa Ana residents were seriously injured early Friday morning when one of them lost control of the car they were in and the vehicle landed in a flood control channel.
Russell A. King, 21, and his passenger, Fermin M. Rios, 41, were northbound on Interstate 5 at about 70 m.p.h. near Irvine, the California Highway Patrol said, when King lost control and the car veered out of the No. 2 lane and struck a center divider wall.
King’s car bounced off the wall, crossed three lanes, knocked down 26 feet of perimeter fence and plunged into a 15-foot-deep flood control channel, where CHP officers found the car at about 3:15 a.m. Friday.
King was listed in serious condition and Rios was listed in stable condition late Friday afternoon at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital.
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