Camp Pendleton
One Marine was killed and another was injured early Tuesday morning when the speeding car in which they were riding slammed into a parked car in San Clemente, police said.
The driver of the car, Lee E. Sears, a Marine based at Camp Pendleton, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide, according to Pat Dolphin, a police dispatcher.
Sears was traveling at 80 m.p.h. in the 3900 block of South El Camino Real at 1:10 a.m. when he apparently lost control of the car and collided with a parked car and two palm trees, shearing one tree, Dolphin said. The passenger, who was not identified pending notification of relatives, died at the scene. Sears was taken to Mission Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo, where he remained in stable condition Tuesday night.
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