CHP Investigating Driver’s Death on I-5
California Highway Patrol investigators are trying to determine why a Ventura man lost control of his minivan and was killed on the Golden State Freeway near Silver Lake over the weekend.
Harry Clark Brenner, 54, died about 11 a.m. Sunday while driving north on the Golden State Freeway in his 1994 GMC Safari, authorities said. Brenner, who was traveling at an undetermined speed, suddenly veered right near the Fletcher Drive onramp and his van went over a divider between the onramp and the freeway.
The van spun around backward, skidded across the onramp’s two lanes and struck an asphalt curb, leaving the roadway.
The van then hit a traffic signal and plunged down an embankment on the right shoulder, striking a 6-foot-high chain-link fence. The vehicle flipped over and came to rest in a parking lot.
Brenner, who was traveling alone, was dead when rescue personnel arrived.
An investigator for the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Monday evening that the cause of Brenner’s death had not been determined.
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