Toddler Killed in Auto Accident on Golden State Freeway

Greg Owen

Attorney

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According to a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman, the fatal accident occured Saturday around 9:30 a.m. near the San Fernando Blvd. offramp on the southbound 5 Freeway. A 50-year-old woman from Bakersfield was driving her husband and 3-year-old daughter in a Ford pickup when she struck a larger truck and then hit a pole. The toddler was later pronounced dead at Holy Cross Hospital.

The mother, Mariana Ruiz, was said to be travelling at an unsafe speed on a road still wet from from earlier rain showers. She was treated at Holy Cross for chest pain.

The father, Juan Torres, 43, fractured his arm and may have suffered a concussion.

The condition of the driver of the larger truck was unavailable.

Authorities were continuing to investigate the incident, but said alcohol was not a factor.