BLOOMINGTON: Motorist believed speeding along road shoulder before fatal crash
BLOOMINGTON: Motorist believed speeding along road shoulder before fatal crash
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A 35-year-old Moreno Valley man apparently was speeding along a road shoulder to pass traffic before the head-on crash that killed him in Bloomington, investigators say.
Juan Velasquez died at the scene of the 9:46 a.m. wreck Wednesday, Aug. 26, along Agua Mansa Road east of El Rivino Road, say San Bernardino County coroner’s officials.
The crash was reported to Rialto police, but was investigated by the California Highway Patrol.
Velasquez was driving a 2015 Toyota Corolla east along Agua Mansa Road when he crossed into the westbound lanes, coroner’s investigators said in a written statement.
“Witnesses reported that the Corolla was traveling at a high rate of speed and passing traffic on a paved shoulder,” CHP Officer Brian Alvarez said Thursday in a separate� statement. “The paved shoulder ended and became a dirt shoulder.
“It appears the driver…attempted too reenter the eastbound lane (but) lost control of the Corolla and crossed into the path of a white 1987 Dodge pickup traveling westbound.”
Seventy-year-old Colton resident Fernando Gonzalez and his passenger in the pickup truck were taken to a hospital for treatment of what the CHP described as minor injuries.
