Coroner identifies victim in 1 of 2 fatal crashes
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office has identified the woman who died in a violent Highway 14 crash Sunday.
Melanie Flores, 25, of Los Angeles, was identified as the woman who died following a crash on Highway 14 in Canyon Country early Sunday morning, according to Sarah Ardalani, spokeswoman for the L.A. County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.
California Highway Patrol officers responded to the incident around 2:20 a.m. on southbound Highway 14, north of Sand Canyon Road, where they found the vehicle sheared in two pieces, per CHP reports. Flores was the sole occupant.
“The initial investigation indicates the vehicle left the roadway and onto the right shoulder,” said Josh Greengard, a spokesman for the CHP Newhall-area Office. “The vehicle subsequently collided with a metal beam guard rail and overhead freeway sign pole.”
Two other individuals died in a separate highway car crash near Fillmore on Sunday evening. Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office officials did not respond Monday regarding their identifications.
Ventura County Fire Department responded to reports of a multivehicle crash on Highway 126 at Spalding Road just after 2:30 p.m., according to spokesman Capt. Brian McGrath.
“It was a three-vehicle collision,” he said, adding that there were one critical patient and two minor injury patients in addition to the two fatalities.
The highway was closed in both directions for an unknown duration as California Highway Patrol officers worked to investigate the collision, per VCFD.