FLORENCE, CA — A 27-year-old Los Angeles man was killed and four other people -- including a pedestrian - suffered major injuries Sunday morning in a two-vehicle crash in the Florence area.
Jorge Juarez was driving a 2015 Kia south on Compton Avenue, north of Gage Avenue, about 3:10 a.m., when 28-year-old Ana Galicia of Los Angeles, driving a 2017 Toyota pulled out from a public driveway and headed east across Compton Avenue, just north of Gage, the California Highway Patrol said.
CHP officials said Galicia's car -- which contained Annalyne Dantes, 26, of West Covina; and Maria Trinidad, 38, of Paramount -- crossed Compton Avenue and slammed into Juarez's car, sending Galicia's vehicle into car into 21-year-old pedestrian Javier Rodriguez of Los Angeles, who was walking north on Compton Avenue.
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Juarez was pronounced dead at the scene, the CHP reported. Galicia, Dantes, Trinidad and Rodriguez were hospitalized with major injuries. arrested.
The crash remained under investigation by the CHP.
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