Two die after wrong-way driver speeding up to 100 mph causes fatal crash on 5 Freeway in O.C.
Two people were killed early Monday when a wrong-way driver speeding at up to 100 mph on the 5 Freeway collided with another vehicle in Fullerton, the California Highway Patrol said. Authorities said calls began flooding into dispatchers just after 3:15 a.m., reporting a wrong-way driver heading north in the freeway’s southbound lanes. The car was reported doing 70 mph in the slow lane at 3:19 a.m. and then 100 mph on the right shoulder of the roadway one minute later, according to CHP logs. ALSO When it comes to Southern California’s heat wave, the worst is yet to come LAPD suspends cadet programs at stations where teens accused of stealing police cruisers were assigned Brush fires near Castaic Lake and Wrightwood continue to burn for a second day UPDATES: 6:40 a.m.: This article was updated with details of a second fatality.
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