A 19-year-old Costa Mesa man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of driving drunk following a collision that killed a passenger in an Uber car.
Porfirio Sandoval was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence after the 1:35 a.m. collision in the 700 block of Baker Street, which killed 29-year-old Julia Gardner of Irvine, according to Costa Mesa police Lt. Greg Scott.
The Uber driver, Frank Rugnetta, 43, of Irvine, was treated at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange for chest pains following the crash.
A 29-year-old man from Huntington Beach, who was also a passenger in the Uber car, was treated at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana for chest pain, Scott said.
Sandoval was taken to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian to be treated for chest pain, then booked into the Costa Mesa jail, with bail set at $100,000, Scott said.
Rugnetta had picked up the two passengers at the Huddle bar at 741 Baker St. He was exiting the parking lot when his Ford Escape was struck by Sandoval’s BMW 540i, which was eastbound on Baker, Scott said.
— Wire reports