CHP Seeks Help in Finding Car Blamed in Fatal Riverside Crash
Highway Patrol investigators are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a car that allegedly caused a fatal accident on California 60 in Riverside County last week.
The car entered the freeway eastbound at Rubidoux Boulevard at 10:50 p.m. Friday, accelerated and crossed unexpectedly to the fast lane, said Highway Patrol Officer John Anderson.
The driver of another car “hit the brakes to avoid an imminent impact, lost control, spun out into the center divider and rolled over numerous times, ejecting some of (her) passengers,” Anderson said Monday. “As a result of this, we had two people killed and three other people injured.”
A 33-year-old Pasadena woman and a 5-year-old girl from Perris were killed when they were thrown from the rolling vehicle. The woman’s 8-year-old daughter suffered major injuries.
Two Perris boys suffered minor injuries. The car’s driver, who was the only occupant wearing a seat belt, wasn’t hurt.
The car said to have caused the accident was described as a mid- to late-1960s Chevrolet two-door hardtop, primer gray with a tinted rear window, a raised rear end, bright orange or red shock absorbers and a black and yellow California license plate, Anderson said.
Anyone with information about the accident is asked to call Anderson or Officer Mike Devine at the CHP office in Riverside, (714) 688-8000.
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