A 20-year-old man died last night at about 7 PM when the car he was riding in “left the road and struck a telephone pole” on the “6500 block of Avenida Encinas, near the Poinsettia Coaster Station, according to the North County Times.
A passenger in the back seat of the car suffered major head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, Kennedy said. Two other men, a driver and a passenger in the front seat, were taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla with minor injuries. . . . The name of the man who died was not released Tuesday night. Carlsbad police were investigating the crash and said it was unclear why the car left the road.
Now the San Diego Union-Tribune is claiming the two other passengers in the car are using the classic “the other guy was driving” DUI defense.
The two other men, also between 20 and 30 years old, were hospitalized, Rawson said. Rawson said each is claiming the other was the driver. . . . Beer cans were in found the car, Rawson said.
[Link: North County Times and San Diego Union-Tribune]
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