A DUI suspect rammed her vehicle into a parked car and dumpster in San Diego’s Bay Park community overnight, killing her passenger – her mother – in the crash, police confirmed.
The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) said the driver, an unidentified 26-year-old woman, was driving southbound at high rate of speed in the 3500 block of Clairemont Drive around 2:20 a.m. when she lost control of her vehicle.
As she drifted off the roadway, she slammed into a parked car, which pushed that vehicle into another parked car nearby. She then drove onto a sidewalk and plowed into a dumpster, investigators said.
The woman was accompanied by her 60-year-old mother, identified by San Diego County Medical Examiner's office officials as Maria Isabel Villarreal. Villarreal was sitting in the passenger seat and suffered critical injuries in the collision. She was pronounced dead at the scene, police confirmed.
Investigators said the daughter, suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol, was taken to a local hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. After she’s released from the hospital, she will be arrested and charged with felony DUI, police said.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information on the crash should call Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
This was just one of several deadly accidents on local roadways overnight.
On Woodside Avenue in Lakeside, a DUI suspect plowed into a family that had just finished having dinner together at a nearby restaurant. A couple from Texas, in town visiting their sons, was critically injured in that crash. The mother succumbed to her injuries, officials confirmed Saturday morning.
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Meanwhile, near Sharp Mary Birch Hospital, a driver hit two pedestrians on Health Center Drive, killing one of them. That accident, however, did not involve alcohol, officials said.
