Head-on crash in H.B. kills one driver, injures another
A Fountain Valley motorist died Thursday after a head-on crash with another vehicle in Huntington Beach.
Huntington Beach police officers responded shortly before 1 p.m. to the area near Garfield Avenue and Hamden Lane, where a 1998 Ford Explorer and a 2015 Toyota 4Runner had collided, police said.
The driver of the Toyota was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where he died of his injuries, police said. The Orange County coroner’s office identified him as Gabriel Fernandez, 32, of Fountain Valley.
A 20-year-old Huntington Beach woman who was driving the Ford suffered moderate injuries and was taken to Anaheim Global Medical Center.
No one else was in either vehicle, police said.
According to an initial investigation, Fernandez was driving west on Garfield when his vehicle drifted into oncoming traffic and collided with the woman’s vehicle, police said.
It is unknown whether impairment was a factor in the crash, and no citations or arrests were made, police said.
Anyone with information about the collision is asked to call Huntington Beach police Investigator Robert Barr at (714) 536-5666 or Investigator Josh Page at (714) 536 5670.
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