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CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES

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The county coroner’s office Thursday identified the man who was driving the wrong way on the 10 Freeway when he collided head-on with a Culver City police officer as Luis Arnoldo Vanegas Palma, 21, of Van Nuys.

Sgt. Curtis Massey, 41, was driving east on his way to work about 5 a.m. Wednesday when he was struck by Palma’s car just west of National Boulevard. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. California Highway Patrol officials said they had not determined why Palma was headed west in the eastbound lanes.

-- Corina Knoll

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