Last Updated on January 10, 2023 by C-CAR
GLENDORA – Authorities released the names of the driver and passenger who were killed after a three-vehicle crash on the westbound 210 Freeway near Glendora on Wednesday.
Lt. David Smith of the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner said Jorge Abarca-Ramos of El Monte and Viridiana Salinas-Rivera, 24, of Pasadena were pronounced dead shortly after 10 a.m. He said the autopsies have not been scheduled.
Smith didn’t have an age for Abarca-Ramos but the California Highway Patrol had earlier identified him as a 41-year-old El Monte resident.
Salinas-Rivera was driving a Toyota pickup westbound on the 210 Freeway, east of Lone Hill Avenue, when a Ford F-350 rear-ended the Toyota. CHP Officer Rodrigo Jimenez said the impact sent the Toyota into the center divider. The Ford also rear-ended a Hyundai Sonata.
Salinas-Rivera and her passenger, Abarca-Ramos, were killed. Another man who was riding in the Toyota suffered major injuries, according to Jimenez.
The Sonata’s driver and passenger as well as the driver of the Ford truck were also injured.
