One of the accident reports from the Glen Ivy area of Riverside County, California, tells of the tragic death of a man and the near-death of another. The authorities identified the man who died in the Saturday, May 9th, accident as Damian Gomez, 23, of Corona.
The Riverside County Coroner’s Office said that the young man lost his life in a single-vehicle crash that occurred in the unincorporated area of Glen Ivy. The police said that they received a call about the accident at approximately 4:30 a.m. and dispatched officers to Mayhew and Temescal Canyon roads.
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The policemen and Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department arrived at the scene to find Gomez unresponsive, and the medics pronounced him dead. They found an unidentified survivor with a laceration to the head and a broken right arm, and the paramedics took the person to the hospital for treatment.
The report also stated that the California Highway Patrol uncovered from witnesses that Gomez and the injured victim were traveling on the northbound lanes of the roadway. The vehicle the two were in overturned for unknown reasons and left the survivor trapped.
The firefighters extricated the injured person from the wreckage, but there’s no information on where they found the deceased. The investigation into the crash remains active.
Accident reports show that single-vehicle crashes occur for several reasons, ranging from the recklessness of drivers to unforeseen road conditions. The two include, but are not limited to, drunk driving, over speeding, adverse weather conditions, and manufacturer’s defect.
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