Gateway Woman Killed in Solo DUI Crash on 710 Freeway

PARAMOUNT, CA — A woman was killed in a single-vehicle DUI-related crash Friday morning on the northbound Long Beach (710) Freeway in Paramount when the vehicle in which she was a passenger overturned and she was ejected, the California Highway Patrol reported.

The crash was reported around 12:45 a.m. on the transition road from the northbound 710 to the Glen Anderson (105) Freeway, said CHP Officer Francisco Villalobos. The deceased, a 23-year-old Cudahy resident whose name was being withheld, was a passenger in a 2006 Scion driven by 22-year-old Jasmine Gamez of Compton.

Gamez was driving on the northbound 710 when, for unknown reasons, she turned the vehicle to the right and left the roadway, crashing into a raised gore point that separates the northbound 710 freeway from a transition road to the 105 freeway, Villalobos said.

The vehicle overturned and the passenger, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected. She died at the scene from her injuries, Villalobos said.

Gamez was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI and transported to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood with minor injuries.

The northbound Long Beach Freeway transition roads to the eastbound and westbound Glen Anderson Freeway were closed for nearly four hours this morning for the investigation but reopened before 5:15 a.m.

Anyone with information regarding the crash is urged to contact the CHP's East Los Angeles Office during regular business hours at (323) 980-4600.

— City News Service, photo via Shutterstock