Driver’s Freeway Seizure Sends Car Swerving: He’s Killed, Wife’s Hurt : Accident: The attack causes his right foot to accelerate the car to 80 m.p.h. and finally flip onto its roof.
A Georgia man traveling with his wife suffered a seizure Sunday while driving on the Riverside Freeway, causing his car to speed out of control and flip onto its roof, killing him, the California Highway Patrol reported.
Don Street, 59, suffered severe head and arm injuries and was transported by helicopter to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where he died. His wife, Arthina Street, 56, was also taken to the medical center and treated for head injuries. She was in critical to guarded condition Sunday night.
At 1:18 p.m., the couple were heading east through Fullerton, between the Santa Ana Freeway and Brookhurst Street, when Street had a seizure, causing his body to become rigid and his right foot to accelerate the car to 80 m.p.h., the CHP said.
The car swerved to the right across three lanes of traffic, then left again before slamming into the center divider and flipping over. The car slid 150 feet on its roof before coming to a stop in the fast lane, the CHP reported.
The accident was cleared within an hour.
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