Santa Barbara Man Identified as Accident Victim
A motorist who died Monday night after veering off Interstate 5 in San Juan Capistrano was identified Tuesday as Wivington James, 20, of Santa Barbara, the California Highway Patrol said.
James and a passenger were traveling south on the freeway in a 1986 Toyota Celica just before 8 p.m. when James apparently made a sharp right and lost control of the car near the San Juan Creek Road exit, a San Juan Capistrano CHP dispatcher said.
The Toyota careened through a chain-link fence, down an embankment, into a tree and then overturned. It came to rest on Camino Capistrano, in front of a CHP office.
James was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, 20-year-old Yuri Radomisli, also from Santa Barbara, was taken to Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo with minor injuries. The Highway Patrol is investigating the accident.
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