Motorist Stalled on Freeway Killed in Crash
A motorist was fatally injured late Wednesday when her car apparently ran out of gas on the Riverside Freeway in Anaheim and was struck by a minivan, police said.
Jeanetta Marie Green, 49, of Corona was transported to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Anaheim, where she died of her injuries shortly after midnight, said Officer JoAnn O’Hair of the California Highway Patrol.
O’Hair said Green’s car, a 1994 Plymouth Sundance, apparently stalled in the second eastbound lane of the freeway and was hit from behind by a 1989 Mazda minivan traveling about 65 miles an hour.
The driver of the minivan, David Piper, 41, of Anaheim, was in stable condition Thursday at Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, hospital representative Leslie Dormann said.
CHP officers were still investigating the accident Thursday.
It was the second death involving a disabled vehicle on an Orange County freeway Wednesday.
A Santa Ana man was fatally injured and three other people were seriously hurt at 6:35 a.m. when a Volkswagen Beetle having engine problems was struck by a truck on the Santa Ana Freeway in Irvine, authorities said.
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