Flaming Freeway Crash Traps and Kills Driver
A motorist died after he slammed his speeding car into the rear of a truck on the San Diego Freeway early Saturday and became trapped as the car caught fire.
The man was driving south on the freeway near Seal Beach Boulevard in a 1981 Dodge station wagon about 4:40 a.m. when he ran into an International Harvester truck driven by Dennis Sam, 38, of Long Beach. Sam was unhurt.
Sgt. Don Hulen of the California Highway Patrol said that the victim, described as “in his 50s,” was driving at a “high rate” of speed when his car hit the truck.
Both CHP and Orange County coroner’s investigators had yet to identify the man as of late Saturday.
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