Crime & Safety
RPV Teen Arrested in Fatal Freeway Crash
Rancho Palos Verdes woman, 18, arrested Friday on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
An 18-year-old woman from Rancho Palos Verdes was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in a car crash that killed a Paramount woman early Friday morning.
Dadream Patrice Thomas, 28, was driving a 2007 Dodge Intrepid on the southbound Harbor (110) Freeway, near the Glenn Anderson (105) Freeway, when the vehicle crashed about 4:20 a.m. Friday and she was thrown from her vehicle, California Highway Patrol Officer Patrick Kimball said.
About one minute later, a Honda being driven about 65 mph by the 18-year-old motorist from Rancho Palos Verdes struck the Dodge, "due to (the suspect's) level of intoxication and unsafe speed," the CHP reported.
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Thomas died at the scene. The other motorist, whose name was withheld, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and felony driving under the influence, causing injury.
The RPV woman's passenger, also 18 and from RPV, suffered moderate injuries, according to the CHP.
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City News Service contributed to this report.
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