A man was killed and two others were injured in a collision on Interstate 15 in Lake Elsinore after a car spun out on a wet roadway during a rainstorm and was struck by a pickup truck, the California Highway Patrol said Monday.
The crash was reported at 9:25 p.m. Sunday on northbound I-15, just south of Central Avenue, according to the CHP.
Officer Mike Lassig said a 54-year-old Hayward woman at the wheel of a 2012 Toyota Scion TC was traveling at an unconfirmed speed when she lost control on the wet roadway, causing her sedan to spin.
A 44-year-old Riverside man driving his Ford F-150 a short distance behind the Toyota was unable to brake before colliding into “the right side of the Scion,” Lassig said.
“Both vehicles came to rest on the east shoulder,” he said.
Riverside County Fire Department paramedics reached the location minutes later and found the right front passenger in the Toyota, identified only as a 52-year-old Lake Elsinore man, dead inside the heavily damaged car, according to the CHP spokesman.
The driver suffered major injuries, none of which appeared to be life-threatening. She was taken to Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar, along with the unidentified front seat passenger of the pickup, who suffered unspecified moderate injuries, for treatment, Lassig said.
The pickup driver was not injured.
“The CHP would like to remind the motoring public to be mindful of speed during inclement weather, such as rain,” he said. “When roads are wet, drivers should slow down to a safe and prudent speed to safely travel on the wet surface.”