Crime & Safety

Teen Driver Who Died In I-5 Car Crash In North County ID'd

The 19-year-old man was killed last weekend in a freeway car crash in Oceanside.

SAN DIEGO, CA — Authorities Tuesday publicly identified a 19-year-old man who was killed last weekend in a freeway car crash in Oceanside.

Noel Basaluda of Oceanside was heading north on Interstate 5 about 2:30 a.m. Sunday when the Hyundai sedan he was driving veered off the roadway for unknown reasons, went down an embankment alongside the 1700 block of South Oceanside Boulevard and struck a tree, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.

Basaluda died at the scene of the accident.

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— City News Service