A wrong-way crash on the 60 freeway in Diamond Bar has killed six people, and a Fontana woman has been arrested on suspicion of DUI in connection with the accident, according to a news report.
The California Highway Patrol said that Olivia Culbreath, 21, has been arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and causing great bodily injury and manslaughter. Investigators said that Culbreath had driven her Chevrolet Camaro north in the southbound lanes of the 57 freeway before getting onto the 60 freeway going east in the westbound lanes. Witnesses report that she was speeding at up to 100 mph.
Culbreath’s Camaro hit a Ford Explorer head-on, killing four members of a Huntington Park family: Gregorio Mejia-Martinez, 47, and Ester Delgado, who was in her 70s, died at the scene, and Leticia Ibarra, 42, and Jessica Jasmine Mejia, 20, were pronounced dead at UCI Medical Center.
In addition, two passengers in Culbreath’s Camaro – her sister Maya Louise Culbreath, 24, Rialto, and Kristin Melissa Young, 24, Chino — were declared dead at the scene. Olivia Culbreath suffered a broken femur and a ruptured bladder.
Authorities said that Culbreath’s drivers license had been suspended four times in 2010 and 2011, and she had just gotten her license back after a conviction for drunk driving five days before the fatal accident.
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