South County : Authorities Identify Truck Crash Victim
- Share via
Authorities have identified a man who was killed Friday when a trash truck he was driving swerved off Interstate 5 and into a eucalyptus tree.
The driver was Raymon D. Cuevas, 27, of Huntington Beach, an employee of Dewey’s Rubbish Service, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Patrick Barnard. Cuevas was dead at the scene of the accident at Crown Valley Parkway and Interstate 5.
Barnard said Cuevas’ truck was traveling south about 55 m.p.h. when Cuevas, for reasons that are still not known, lost control of the vehicle.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
