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A 20-year-old Lake Forest man has been killed in a pickup rollover crash, according to a news report.

The California Highway Patrol said that Zachary Butcher was a passenger in a Ford F150 pickup truck driven by Delbert Parada, 21, of Lake Forest that crashed on Ortega Highway just west of Decker Canyon Road.  The CHP said that Parada apparently lost control of the pickup, causing it to flip over on the highway.  Butcher was a passenger in the left rear seat and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Reader comments appended to the news report of this accident reported there were five occupants in the pickup: Parada, Butcher, Craig Woycheese, Trish Gority and Michelle Wooten.  It was reported that the pickup hit gravel on the highway, causing the truck to flip, and that another truck then smashed into the pickup wreckage.

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