The California Highway Patrol Saturday is investigating a deadly, wrong-way, rollover crash that claimed the lives of two people on the San Bernardino (10) Freeway in Pomona during a police pursuit.
Pomona Police Department officers were pursuing the black BMW X6 on the westbound freeway at 4:47 p.m. Friday when the driver began going the wrong way near Kellogg Drive, lost control and crashed into a dirt berm, CHP Officer Sergio Garcia told City News Service.
The BMW rolled over several times onto the transition road from the northbound Chino Valley (71) Freeway to the 10 Freeway, Garcia said. The driver, identified as 30-year-old Erick Daniel Bolanos of Montclair, ran away but was quickly taken into custody by Pomona police officers.
Two passengers were ejected in the crash and were pronounced dead at the scene. A third passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries to his abdomen and was taken to Pomona Valley Hospital for treatment, police said.
The driver of a white Toyota C-HR, Maria De Lourdes Reyes, 44 , was driving on the transition road when her subcompact crossover SUV was struck by debris from the BMW but did not sustain any injuries.
Anyone who witnessed or has information about the crash was asked to call CHP Officer H. Metzgar at 626-338-1164.