Driver Held: Car Hit Sign, Tree, Pole

By HENRY CHU

May 17, 1991 12 AM PT

HUNTINGTON BEACH —

A driver was arrested Thursday after he lost control of his car and veered off a road, injuring himself and a passenger, police said.

Neil Martin Nevis, 28, was driving east on McFadden Avenue just before 2 a.m. when his car struck a sign, a tree and an electrical pole, Police Lt. Jeff Cope said.

His passenger, Maria DiSalvo, 26, also of Garden Grove, was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange with internal injuries. She was reported in fair condition there Thursday night.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

Driver Held: Car Hit Sign, Tree, Pole

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