A 28-year-old Fontana man has been killed and another seven people were injured in a crash involving a runaway big-rig hauling a forklift, according to a news report.
The California Highway Patrol said that Eric McEntarffer was driving a Honda Accord north on the 57 freeway in Fullerton when a big-rig, a forklift and another car came crashing through the concrete barrier in front of him. The big-rig crashed into McEntarffer’s Honda; he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The CHP said the big-rig was hauling a forklift in the slow lane of the southbound 57 freeway when the driver lost control, veered across all freeway lanes and collected a Honda Civic driven by Christine Hyo-Min Choi, 60, of Seal Beach before crashing through the center divider. The forklift went airborne and crashed into three other vehicles: a Toyota Camry, a Toyota 4Runner and a Toyota Prius.
The injured included the big-rig driver, Daniel Gregory Delara, 28, of Riverside; Mary Muchen Chen, 53, of Diamond Bar; Mohamed A. Rajpoot, 58, of Long Beach; Jennifer Kim, 51, of Brea; Choi and two other identified people.
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