Last Updated on August 28, 2019 by CCAR Staff
Two children, a 14-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, from injuries after a traffic collision in San Bernardino, according to police and the coroner’s office.
Both children lived in San Bernardino.
A car driven by a 37-year-old Ontario woman struck the teen boy, Jason Xavier Castellanos, at 3:32 p.m. as he was crossing the Sierra Way intersection with 18th Street. Then a motorcycle with two aboard — both children of the Ontario car driver — struck the rear of the car, police said Wednesday.
The motorcycle rider and passenger were thrown from the bike. The car, followed by the motorcycle, was heading south on Sierra Way at a speed still under investigation, police said.
Heather Dawn Durham, the girl who lost her life, was the passenger, and the bike was driven by Kenneth Durham, 20, of San Bernardino. He suffered major injuries. The car was driven by Heather Armstrong, according to police.
Armstrong was not injured, police said. Police said Armstrong is the mother of Kenneth and Heather Durham.
Jason died at 8:40 p.m. and Heather at 9:58 p.m, the coroner’s office said.
Jason was a ninth grader at San Bernardino High School, San Bernardino City Unified School District spokeswoman Linda Bardere said. He attended Golden Valley Middle School last year.
Heather attended Norton Elementary and had been expected for this academic year to attend Lytle Creek Elementary, but had not yet reported for her first day at the school, Bardere said.
Crisis counselors were sent primarily to San Bernardino High School and Golden Valley Middle School on Wednesday, Bardere said, where most of the contacts at the middle school were for staff. “They remembered him very well,” she said.
The crash investigation continued Wednesday, police said. Anyone with information about it was asked to contact Detective Dan Acosta or Sgt. Jeff Harvey at 909-384-5792.
