A 29-year-old Hawthorne man died after the pickup truck he was riding in went out of control and crashed, according to a news report.
Authorities said that Edgar Murillo died at UCI Medical Center in Orange after the 2002 GMC S-10 pickup he was riding in crashed on I-5 near Disneyland Drive. Witnesses told CHP investigators that the pickup was traveling at a high rate of speed when it attempted to change lanes and clipped the corner of a Mercury Villager, causing the pickup to skid off the freeway, hit a dirt embankment and a bridge, and end up in the far right lane of the freeway.
A 28-year-old woman driving the pickup was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
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