Authorities Wednesday identified a 75-year-old woman who was killed in one of two separate crashes that occurred during rainy conditions on freeways in Pomona and Sun Valley on Monday.
Ellen Cavalli was a passenger in a Hyundai Sonata sedan that rear-ended a big rig about 4:20 a.m. Monday on the eastbound San Bernardino (10) Freeway near Dudley Street in Pomona, according to the coroner’s office and the California Highway Patrol. Her city of residence was not known.
According to the CHP, the big rig had stopped in the No. 2 lane because crews were working to clear the scene of a non-injury accident that had occurred about a half-hour earlier near Garey Avenue.
“The (fatal) collision occurred when (the Hyundai driver) failed to slow down for the stopped big rig,” according to the CHP. “Neither alcohol nor drugs are suspected to be a factor in this collision.”
The Hyundai driver was taken to a hospital for treatment of “major” injuries, the CHP reported. The big rig driver was not injured.
About 4:15 a.m. Monday, a car and a big rig collided on the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway at Tuxford Street, killing the driver of the smaller vehicle, who was identified by the coroner’s office as William Nakahara, 63, of Cypress.