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Local News in Brief : Driver in Fatal Crash Won’t Be Charged

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The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has announced that it will not prosecute a 70-year-old Sherman Oaks driver whose car rammed into a crowded Monterey Park restaurant, crushing two people to death and injuring the driver and four others.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Don Eastman called the Dec. 28 accident a tragedy but said he concluded after a review of the case that driver Rudy D’Agostin committed no crime. It is unclear why D’Agostin lost control of his car and crashed into the Four Happiness Restaurant on Garfield Avenue, Eastman said, although “age and medical problems caused (D’Agostin) to really have no idea what he was doing.”

It is possible, Eastman said, that D’Agostin had suffered a mild stroke before the accident. He had been missing from home for two days, Eastman said, and at 1:35 a.m., about 15 hours before the accident, a Burbank policeman had stopped D’Agostin for running a stop sign.

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Tests showed that D’Agostin was not intoxicated, he said.

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