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LOCAL : Elderly Couple, Young Woman Identified in Fatal Irvine Crash

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From Times Staff and Wire Service Reports

An elderly Laguna Hills couple and an Irvine woman were killed Tuesday night in a three-car collision that also left a 32-year-old man with minor injuries and forced closure of Irvine Center Drive until late this morning.

John Feltman, 75, and his wife, Celia, 73, were traveling along a rural stretch of the road from their Leisure World home when the car in which they were riding drifted into oncoming traffic, Irvine Police Lt. Bob Leonard said.

Their 1988 Mercury Marquis smashed headlong into a 1987 Chevrolet Camaro driven by Beth A. Ward, 26, who was traveling eastbound along Irvine Center Drive near Valencia Avenue, Leonard said.

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The Marquis then flipped over and struck a 1986 Ford Bronco II that was being driven by Jeffrey Snyder, a computer programmer.

The Feltmans and Ward were pronounced dead at the scene, Leonard said. Snyder was taken to nearby Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, where he was treated for a bruised knee and a strained neck and later released, Leonard said.

Leonard said investigators were trying to determine why Feltman was driving on the wrong side of the road.

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