Driver’s Body Found Near Wreckage
A man out for an afternoon hike stumbled upon a week-old car wreck in the brush south of the Foothill Freeway, discovering the body of a 21-year-old North Hollywood man who had been ejected from his car after it skidded off the road, Los Angeles police said Monday.
Dusty Delparte was found in the brush seven feet beneath the side of La Tuna Canyon Road, about a mile south of the Foothill Freeway. The body was discovered about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, nearly 25 feet above the twisted wreckage of Delparte’s 1964 Rambler, Sgt. John Amott said.
Investigators said Delparte had died several days ago, and family members told police he had been missing for about a week.
Amott said the hiker noticed a gash in the guardrail of La Tuna Canyon Road last week, but only noticed the corpse lying beneath the gash during his walk Sunday.
Amott said Delparte apparently took a curve too fast on the winding road and skidded along the guardrail for several hundred feet before his car tore through it and plunged into the canyon.
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