Irvine High School students, from left, Gina Nguyen, 17; Delaram Danesh, 18; and Haider Al Hamawendi, 18, gather near a memorial set up at the site of a car wreck in which five teens were killed. Al Hamawendi’s younger brother, Nozad, was among the casualties. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Friends of the killed teenagers write messages on the tree at the crash site. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
A police officer walks by a crumpled vehicle on Jamboree Road north of Island Lagoon Drive on Monday evening. Five people died in the crash, which occurred at 5:20 p.m., according to Newport Beach Police Department spokeswoman Kathy Lowe. (Kent Treptow / Special to the Daily Pilot)
Police officers inspect a crumpled vehicle on Jamboree Road north of Island Lagoon Drive on Monday evening. (Kent Treptow / Special to the Daily Pilot)
A cell phone photo of Abdulrahman Alyahyan, left, the driver of the car in which 5 teenagers were killed on Monday in Newport Beach, CA. On the right is his Irvine High School friend Omar Soussan, who provided the photo. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A cell phone photograph of Cecilia Zamora (center) who died Monday in a car crash on Jamboree Road. Girl on right is unidentified in a photo on the phone of Zamora’s Irvine High School classmate Kelly Dunkle. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Irvine High School classmates, left to right, Shadi Masoud, 16, Aram Yaco, 17, and Kelly Dunkle, 17, crouch at the base of a pine tree in the median on Jamboree Road where their friends died in a horrific car crash Monday. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Kelly Dunkle, 17, tears up as she talks about her friend Cecy Zamora who died Monday in a car crash here on Jamboree Road. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Shadi Masoud, 16, holds bits of shattered glass and car parts that he found at the base of a tree where his friends died in a car crash that split the car in half and killed all 5 teenage occupants. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)