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LA VERNE >> A 68-year-old man died when his Corvette veered off the rain-slickened roadway and overturned on the 210 Freeway late Friday, officials said.

David Brighton of La Verne died in the 6:20 p.m. crash along the westbound lanes just west of Foothill Boulevard, Los Angeles County Department of Coroner Lt. David Smith said.

Brighton was driving a 1993 Chevrolet Corvette in the right-hand lane at 75 to 80 mph just prior to the crash, Officer J. Ortiz of the California Highway Patrol’s Baldwin Park Office said in a written statement.

“Due to excessive speed in wet/raining conditions, (Brighton) lost control, which caused the Chevrolet Corvette to veer off the roadway, overturning in the process,” Ortiz said.

Paramedics pronounced Brighton dead at the scene.

Any witnesses to the crash were encouraged to contact the CHP’s Baldwin Park Office at 626-338-1164.

BEVERLY HILLS >> Actor John Stamos was arrested Friday night for suspicion of DUI in Beverly Hills, police said.

Stamos was stopped in his vehicle near the intersection of Beverly Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard around 7:45 p.m., Beverly Hills Police Department Lt. Lincoln Hoshino said.

The 51-year-old Stamos was then taken to a hospital due to a medical condition, Hoshino said. The nature of the condition was not disclosed.

Stamos was found to have been under the influence after investigation at the hospital, Hoshino said.

Stamos was cited for suspicion of DUI and released to the care of the hospital, Hoshino said.

Stamos is due to appear in court Sept. 11, Hoshino said.

Stamos is best known for his role as Uncle Jesse in the 1987-95 ABC comedy “Full House.” He is set to return in the role in the sequel “Fuller House,” set to be shown on Netflix beginning in 2016. He is also set to star in the new Fox comedy, “Grandfathered,” set to premiere this fall.

BEVERLY HILLS >> Actor John Stamos was arrested Friday night for suspicion of DUI in Beverly Hills, police said.

Stamos was stopped in his vehicle near the intersection of Beverly Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard around 7:45 p.m., Beverly Hills Police Department Lt. Lincoln Hoshino said.

The 51-year-old Stamos was then taken to a hospital due to a medical condition, Hoshino said. The nature of the condition was not disclosed.

Stamos was found to have been under the influence after investigation at the hospital, Hoshino said.

Stamos was cited for suspicion of DUI and released to the care of the hospital, Hoshino said.

Stamos is due to appear in court Sept. 11, Hoshino said.

Stamos is best known for his role as Uncle Jesse in the 1987-95 ABC comedy “Full House.” He is set to return in the role in the sequel “Fuller House,” set to be shown on Netflix beginning in 2016. He is also set to star in the new Fox comedy, “Grandfathered,” set to premiere this fall.

LOS ANGELES >> A trial date could be scheduled in August in the case of a Fontana woman accused of driving the wrong way on the 60 Freeway and causing a crash that killed six people last year.

A trial date would come after months of pretrial hearings for Olivia Carolee Culbreath, 22, who was allegedly driving her Chevrolet Camaro east on the westbound 60 in Diamond Bar when, going the wrong way, she crash head-on into a sport-utility vehicle and another vehicle crashed into the SUV, the California Highway Parol said. Culbreath was driving at speeds close to 100 mph, authorities said.

CHP investigators said witnesses saw Culbreath drinking at a Fullerton bar and grill hour prior to the crash.

Two women traveling in Culbreath’s car died as a result of the crash. One was Culbreath’s sister, Maya, 24, of Rialto. The other victim was Kristin Young, 21, of Chino.

Four Huntington Park residents in the SUV were thrown from the vehicle. The four victims were Gregorio Mejia-Martinez, 47; Leticia Ibarra, 42; Jessica Mejia, 20; and Ester Delgado, 80.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys were in court Wednesday hashing out details. Defense attorney Robert Sheahen went before Judge Sam Ohta at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles and said expert witnesses will be called to testify during the trial. Culbreath was not in court Wednesday.

The defense team has identified areas in which experts will be needed to provide testimony, but the actual experts have not been identified, Sheahen said, and he was not in a position Wednesday to provide that information to Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Padilla.

Padilla said the defense team had informed him that by Aug. 5 they would provide her all the discovery information they collect. She has turned over her information to the defense.

“At this point I’ve provided almost 1,000 pages of discovery,” Padilla said.

She added she needs the names of the expert witnesses in order to prepare for a trial.

Sheahen said his team is working with lawyers handling a civil case involving Culbreath and will have the experts identified within 30 days.

The judge directed Sheahen to give the names of the expert witnesses to the prosecution, once available, and asked the two sides to provide him a report the week of July 15 on their progress.

Lawyers in the case are expected to be in court Aug. 5 for a pre-trial conference and possibly the setting of a trial start date.

Culbreath, who was being held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles in lieu of $6 million bail, suffered significant injuries in the crash and requires the use of a wheel chair. She has been in and out of the hospital recently, said Daniel Perlman, one of her lawyers.

LOS ANGELES >> A trial date could be scheduled in August in the case of a Fontana woman accused of driving the wrong way on the 60 Freeway and causing a crash that killed six people last year.

A trial date would come after months of pretrial hearings for Olivia Carolee Culbreath, 22, who was allegedly driving her Chevrolet Camaro east on the westbound 60 in Diamond Bar when, going the wrong way, she crash head-on into a sport-utility vehicle and another vehicle crashed into the SUV, the California Highway Parol said. Culbreath was driving at speeds close to 100 mph, authorities said.

CHP investigators said witnesses saw Culbreath drinking at a Fullerton bar and grill hour prior to the crash.

Two women traveling in Culbreath’s car died as a result of the crash. One was Culbreath’s sister, Maya, 24, of Rialto. The other victim was Kristin Young, 21, of Chino.

Four Huntington Park residents in the SUV were thrown from the vehicle. The four victims were Gregorio Mejia-Martinez, 47; Leticia Ibarra, 42; Jessica Mejia, 20; and Ester Delgado, 80.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys were in court Wednesday hashing out details. Defense attorney Robert Sheahen went before Judge Sam Ohta at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles and said expert witnesses will be called to testify during the trial. Culbreath was not in court Wednesday.

The defense team has identified areas in which experts will be needed to provide testimony, but the actual experts have not been identified, Sheahen said, and he was not in a position Wednesday to provide that information to Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Padilla.

Padilla said the defense team had informed him that by Aug. 5 they would provide her all the discovery information they collect. She has turned over her information to the defense.

“At this point I’ve provided almost 1,000 pages of discovery,” Padilla said.

She added she needs the names of the expert witnesses in order to prepare for a trial.

Sheahen said his team is working with lawyers handling a civil case involving Culbreath and will have the experts identified within 30 days.

The judge directed Sheahen to give the names of the expert witnesses to the prosecution, once available, and asked the two sides to provide him a report the week of July 15 on their progress.

Lawyers in the case are expected to be in court Aug. 5 for a pre-trial conference and possibly the setting of a trial start date.

Culbreath, who was being held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles in lieu of $6 million bail, suffered significant injuries in the crash and requires the use of a wheel chair. She has been in and out of the hospital recently, said Daniel Perlman, one of her lawyers.

WASHINGTON — Accident investigators said Wednesday that the engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone in the moments before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, deepening the mystery of what caused the accident.

Eight people were killed and about 200 more injured in the May 12 derailment.

In an updated report, the National Transportation Safety Board said its analysis of phone records “does not indicate that any calls, texts or data usage occurred during the time the engineer was operating the train.” The agency also said the engineer, Brandon Bostian, didn’t access the train’s Wi-Fi system while he was operating the locomotive.

Investigators have said previously that the train accelerated to 106 miles per hour in the last minute before entering a curve where the speed limit is 50 mph. In the last few seconds the brakes were applied with maximum force, but the train was still traveling at over 100 mph when it left the tracks.

Congress has been pressing the safety board for answers to the key question of whether Bostian was using his phone. Bostian suffered a head injury in the crash, and his attorney has said the engineer doesn’t remember anything after the train pulled out of Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, the last stop before the derailment.

Engineers aren’t allowed to use phones while operating trains or preparing them for movement, but determining whether Bostian was using the phone was a complicated process.

The phone was used to make calls and send text messages the day of the accident, but inconsistencies in phone records presented difficulties, NTSB Chairman Chris Hart told Congress last week. The voice and text messages were recorded in different time zones and may not have been calibrated to the exact time as other equipment on the train, such as a camera focused on the tracks and a recorder that registers how fast the train was moving and actions by the engineer, he said.

Accident investigators have said previously that they have not found any mechanical problems with the train. The track had been inspected not long before the crash.

Later Wednesday, NTSB officials are expected to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee about train safety. One focus of the hearing is positive train control, a technology that can prevent trains from derailing because of excessive speed.

Congress mandated in 2008 that Amtrak, commuter railroads and freight railroads install positive train control by the end of this year. Amtrak still has to do extensive testing of the system but will meet the deadline, officials have said.

WASHINGTON — Accident investigators said Wednesday that the engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone in the moments before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, deepening the mystery of what caused the accident.

Eight people were killed and about 200 more injured in the May 12 derailment.

In an updated report, the National Transportation Safety Board said its analysis of phone records “does not indicate that any calls, texts or data usage occurred during the time the engineer was operating the train.” The agency also said the engineer, Brandon Bostian, didn’t access the train’s Wi-Fi system while he was operating the locomotive.

Investigators have said previously that the train accelerated to 106 miles per hour in the last minute before entering a curve where the speed limit is 50 mph. In the last few seconds the brakes were applied with maximum force, but the train was still traveling at over 100 mph when it left the tracks.

Congress has been pressing the safety board for answers to the key question of whether Bostian was using his phone. Bostian suffered a head injury in the crash, and his attorney has said the engineer doesn’t remember anything after the train pulled out of Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, the last stop before the derailment.

Engineers aren’t allowed to use phones while operating trains or preparing them for movement, but determining whether Bostian was using the phone was a complicated process.

The phone was used to make calls and send text messages the day of the accident, but inconsistencies in phone records presented difficulties, NTSB Chairman Chris Hart told Congress last week. The voice and text messages were recorded in different time zones and may not have been calibrated to the exact time as other equipment on the train, such as a camera focused on the tracks and a recorder that registers how fast the train was moving and actions by the engineer, he said.

Accident investigators have said previously that they have not found any mechanical problems with the train. The track had been inspected not long before the crash.

Later Wednesday, NTSB officials are expected to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee about train safety. One focus of the hearing is positive train control, a technology that can prevent trains from derailing because of excessive speed.

Congress mandated in 2008 that Amtrak, commuter railroads and freight railroads install positive train control by the end of this year. Amtrak still has to do extensive testing of the system but will meet the deadline, officials have said.

A Sun City truck driver was killed early Tuesday morning as he was making a delivery at the Big Lots Distribution Center in Rancho Cucamonga.

Around 3:45 a.m., the unidentified 77-year-old truck driver had parked in the center median of Fourth Street and was trying to cross the street when he was struck by a passing vehicle, according to San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials.

The driver that struck the man remained at the scene and tried to help the injured truck driver, officials said.

Ontario Fire Department personnel drove the man to Kaiser Hospital Fontana, where he was pronounced dead.

Members of the Rancho Cucamonga Major Accident Investigation Team are investigating the fatal crash. It does not appear speed or alcohol were contributing factors, according to a sheriff’s statement.

Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or who might have additional information pertinent to the case is encouraged to contact investigators at 909-477-2800 or 909-477-2817.

A Sun City truck driver was killed early Tuesday morning as he was making a delivery at the Big Lots Distribution Center in Rancho Cucamonga.

Around 3:45 a.m., the unidentified 77-year-old truck driver had parked in the center median of Fourth Street and was trying to cross the street when he was struck by a passing vehicle, according to San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials.

The driver that struck the man remained at the scene and tried to help the injured truck driver, officials said.

Ontario Fire Department personnel drove the man to Kaiser Hospital Fontana, where he was pronounced dead.

Members of the Rancho Cucamonga Major Accident Investigation Team are investigating the fatal crash. It does not appear speed or alcohol were contributing factors, according to a sheriff’s statement.

Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or who might have additional information pertinent to the case is encouraged to contact investigators at 909-477-2800 or 909-477-2817.