SAN DIEGO DUI DRIVER CRASHES AND DIES
POWAY -- Alcohol is believed to have contributed to a single-vehicle crash that left a 38-year-old man dead early Monday morning, authorities said.
The crash was reported at about 2:15 a.m., after the victim's Ford Explorer, which was traveling "at a high rate of speed," drifted and struck a curb on Pomerado Road near Roberto Rio Road, causing the driver to lose control, sheriff's deputy Mark J. Tally said.
The Explorer continued southbound and veered back onto the roadway, sliding sideways and flipping over onto its driver's side, Tally said. The impact partially ejected the victim, identified by the county medical examiner's office as Salvador Wong-Valera, who was wearing a seatbelt.
Arriving firefighters used the Jaws of Life to cut the Wong-Valera out of the vehicle, but he died at the scene, authorities said.
The passenger, a 28-year-old man, was not injured.
