Last Updated on January 14, 2023 by CCAR Staff
UPLAND >> Two women are dead following a high-speed crash into a slope and a highway sign here Monday night.
The unidentified women in their 20s were pronounced dead at the scene, said Sgt. Cameron Broyles with the California Highway Patrol.
Around 10:15 p.m., the women were traveling east on the 10 Freeway near San Antonio Avenue in a white Scion reportedly at speeds of about 100 mph, when the driver made an unsafe lane change and struck a gray Chevrolet Malibu, he said.
That sent the Scion ricocheting toward the shoulder, where the vehicle was launched off a raised asphalt hill onto the hillside, officials said. The momentum of the impact into the hillside sent the Scion into the air a second time and into the pole that holds the highway message sign, officials said.
The Malibu driver, a 48-year-old man from Adelanto, suffered only minor injuries.
The fatal crash is still under investigation.
