A woman and a man killed in a crash in Whittier were both from El Monte, authorities said Monday.
Mayra Zarate was 27 and James Espinosa was 28, according to the coroner’s office.
The crash happened at 3:31 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Norwalk and Beverly boulevards, Whittier Police Lt. Dominic Iraldo said.
A black sedan was speeding westbound on Beverly Boulevard when its driver lost control near the intersection and struck some parked vehicles on northbound Norwalk Boulevard, Iraldo said. It’s not clear where the car carrying Zarate and Espinosa was when it was struck.
The black sedan was occupied by two men and two women, he said.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department was called to Deveron Drive and Beverly Boulevard at 3:34 a.m., according to supervising fire dispatcher Melinda Choi.
When crews arrived seven minutes later, they pronounced one person dead and worked to free another from a vehicle. One person was rushed to a local trauma center at 3:53 a.m., Choi said.
At 4:21 a.m., county fire officials announced that two people had died, one was injured and being treated at a hospital, and a second ambulance had been summoned for a fourth person whose condition was unknown.