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High-speed pursuit ends in head-on crash in Pasadena

By Harriet RyanStaff Writer 
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A Lancaster man who led highway patrol officers on a high-speed chase that ended in a head-on collision was in custody Saturday on charges of drunk driving and eluding police, authorities said.

Patrol officers attempted to stop a Toyota Corolla driven by Delfino Eddie Rey, 58, on the 134 Freeway in Glendale on Friday night after receiving a report of a hit-and-run, according to a California Highway Patrol report. Instead, the report said, “the vehicle led units on a pursuit at speeds fluctuating between 10 to 80 mph.”

The chase continued east onto Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena with Rey driving between lanes and then crashing into an oncoming vehicle east of Linda Vista Avenue, the report said.

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Two adults and a child in the other vehicle sustained minor to moderate injuries and they along with Rey were taken to Huntington Memorial Hospital, the report said. He was arrested while receiving treatment, the report said.

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Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

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