Last Updated on March 27, 2022 by CCAR Staff
SAN JACINTO — A 67-year-old driver of a white Jeep Wrangler who was injured in a four-vehicle crash in San Jacinto has become the second person in that accident to die from his injuries, authorities said.
Steven Hutchinson of San Jacinto died Friday afternoon at Riverside Community Hospital, according to the Riverside County coroner’s office.
The collision occurred at around 6:20 a.m. on March 17 on Ramona Expressway west of Warren Road, according to the coroner’s office.
The driver of a truck hauling a small trailer was headed east on Ramona Expressway when traffic stopped in front of him, prompting him to veer left into westbound lanes to avoid hitting the stopped vehicles, according to Sgt. Dawn Blair of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The now wrong-way truck driver collided into a black Jeep Wrangler in front of him, a westbound Nissan Frontier and a westbound white Jeep Wrangler driven by Hutchinson.
The drivers of the truck and white Wrangler had to be extricated from the wreckage by firefighters and both were taken to a hospital, authorities said.
The truck driver died from his injuries that morning at Riverside University Health System Medical Center. He was identified as 88-year-old Francisco Salgado of Nuevo, according to the coroner’s office.
The drivers of the black Wrangler and Frontier were not injured.
Authorities said neither drugs nor alcohol appeared to be a factor in the collision.
