Marine Dies in Car Crash
A 28-year-old Camp Pendleton Marine was killed Friday night when the car he was riding in rammed into a telephone pole, Oceanside police said Saturday.
The Marine was a passenger in a 1989 Nissan Maxima driven by Thomas Hartman, 32, of Oceanside, police said. Hartman was driving east on Mission Avenue, by Guajome Lake just east of North Santa Fe Avenue, when he lost control of the car at 10:35 p.m., police said.
The car skidded across the dirt shoulder and the passenger side crashed into the telephone pole, shearing off the pole and killing the Marine, police said. The car slid into a chain-link fence before stopping, officers said.
The Marine’s name has not been released pending notification of relatives, police said.
Hartman, who suffered only minor cuts in the crash, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and felony vehicular manslaughter, police said. He was released Saturday from the Vista jail on $10,000 bail, a jail official said.
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