2 Killed in Traffic Accidents

A 34-year-old man and an 88-year-old woman were killed Sunday in unrelated San Fernando Valley traffic accidents--one involving a motorist suspected of driving drunk, police said.

In the first accident, which occurred about 2:40 a.m. in Reseda, a car heading south on Reseda Boulevard barreled through a red light and struck a car headed west on Saticoy Street, said Officer Bill Mulvihill of the Los Angeles Police Department.

A passenger in the westbound car, a Mexican national whose name was not released, was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center, where he died in surgery about 7:30 a.m., Mulvihill said. The driver and two other passengers suffered minor injuries.

The driver of the southbound car, Jese Raul Regaldo of Nevada, and his passenger also suffered minor injuries, Mulvihill said. Regaldo, 23, was arrested and booked into the Van Nuys jail on suspicion of drunk driving.

In the second accident, which occurred shortly after 10 a.m. in Chatsworth, Dove Perdue was attempting an illegal U-turn from the curb on De Soto Avenue just north of Vintage Street when a northbound van struck her car broadside, Mulvihill said. Perdue, a Chatsworth resident, also was taken to the hospital in Northridge, where she later died.

The driver of the van, a Canoga Park woman, was not cited, Mulvihill said.