Local : Crash Kills Irvine Man, Wife Hurt
A 33-year-old man was killed and his wife injured when their car left a curving street in a quiet residential neighborhood and crashed into a large stone pillar, police said today.
Irvine resident Ioannis (John) Doukas, was pronounced dead at Western Medical Center-Santa Ana shortly after the Sunday night accident. The cause of death was listed as severe body trauma. He was not wearing a seat belt.
His wife, Debbie Doukas, 31, who was wearing a seat belt, was in stable condition today at UCI Medical Center with upper-body injuries, said Irvine Police Sgt. Dick Bowman.
Bowman said Ioannis Doukas was driving his Chrysler New Yorker around a curve on Stonecreek North at the intersection of Willowbrook when he apparently lost control of the vehicle, which went over the sidewalk and struck a tree and stone fencepost in front of a nearby residence.
Investigators were at the scene this morning in the residential village of Woodbridge to determine the estimated speed of the vehicle and how it careened out of control.
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