Wrong-Way Collision on Freeway Kills One
A man was killed early Tuesday when he drove his car the wrong way down the Santa Ana Freeway and collided with a carload of tourists from Hawaii, injuring one of them seriously, the California Highway Patrol reported.
The man, who remains unidentified, was driving a 1988 Ford Bronco northbound in the southbound lanes of the freeway north of Euclid Street about 60 to 65 m.p.h. when he collided with the other car shortly before midnight, CHP Officer Keith Thornhill said.
The man, from Kirkland, Wash., hit a Dodge Shadow carrying four visitors from Honolulu, seriously injuring the driver, Keith Kanai Munson, 25, who was reported in serious condition at United Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, Thornhill said.
Also injured, though not seriously, were passengers Darlene Kuhn, 33; Georgette Shiraishi, 36, and Vance Munson, 28.
The driver of the Bronco, about 18 or 19 years old, was pronounced dead at UCI Medical Center in Orange, Thornhill said. The car had Washington license plates.
Coroners were not able to release the name of the victim.
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