Four people died in a fiery single-vehicle crash on the Santa Ana Freeway in Irvine early Saturday.
A videographer at the scene said a California Highway Patrol sergeant told him the victims appeared to be in their mid-to-late teens.
An Orange County Fire Authority spokesman initially said three people died at the scene. The body of a fourth was later discovered inside the vehicle, the spokesman said.
No identification was available as to the age or the gender of the victims.
A fifth person, described as a juvenile, survived and was hospitalized with trauma, the spokesman said.
The vehicle also ignited a small brush fire, he said.
It occurred near an underpass of the Eastern Transportation Corridor (133), at 2:12 a.m. a CHP dispatcher said.
The videographer said the vehicle, an early model BMW, appeared to have cleared the right shoulder of the freeway and run up an embankment of the Corridor.
— City News Service