Saudi Consul’s Nephew Booked in Traffic Death
The nephew of the local Saudi Arabian consul general was booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter after he surrendered to police in the hit-and-run death of a 73-year-old pedestrian in Westwood, Los Angeles police said Sunday.
Trad Esmat Nazer, 20, surrendered at the LAPD’s Pacific Division station early Saturday morning, accompanied by his uncle, Consul General Hassan Nazer, said Officer Larry Judd.
Nazer was later released on $30,000 bail.
The accident occurred about two hours earlier, at 11:15 p.m. Friday. A woman was crossing to the north side of Wilshire Boulevard at Manning Avenue when she was struck and killed by a car moving west at “a high rate of speed,” said Officer Salvador Jaramillo of the West Traffic Division. The driver passed four cars on the right and swerved back into a traffic lane, hitting the woman, he said.
The victim’s identity was not released because her family has not yet been notified.
Nazer apparently is not protected by diplomatic immunity, authorities said.
“The only one with diplomatic immunity would be the ambassador or the consul general, but not the family,” Jaramillo said.
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