A 77-year-old Murrieta woman has died and two men were critically injured in a head-on collision on Ortega Highway just east of San Juan Capistrano.
According to the California Highway Patrol, Amparo Lopez was a passenger in a Honda that was hit head-on by a Mazda that veered into the eastbound lanes of Ortega Highway west of Cristianitos Road. Lopez later died from her injuries at Mission Hospital.
A 74-year-old Murrieta man who was driving the Honda and a 38-year-old Lake Forest man who was at the wheel of the Mazda were seriously injured in the head-on crash and taken to Mission Hospital. CHP investigators said that alcohol is considered to be a factor in the deadly collision and that the Mazda driver is under arrest pending the completion of medical treatment.
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