Morales' passenger, Mallory Peck, 21, of Sunland, was thrown from the vehicle, which landed on Waltonia Drive in Montrose. Both Morales and Peck were pronounced dead at the scene by Los Angeles County Fire Dept. personnel, said the CHP spokesperson.
Neither Morales nor Peck were wearing seat belts. The investigation into the accident is still ongoing.
Pasadena Scene of Other Crash
Close to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Christopher Clark, 20, of La Crescenta was stopped at the stoplight on Corson Street in Pasadena when Raymond Gallie, 69, of Woodland Hills, rear- ended Clark's vehicle at a high rate of speed. The young La Crescentan was killed instantly, said Janet Pope Givens, a Pasadena Police Department spokesperson.
Gallie was traveling eastbound on the 210 before taking the Lake Avenue exit, which empties on to Corson Street. Gallie had just been involved with another accident on the eastbound 210 where he collided with a vehicle; the other driver stopped but Gallie did not, Pope Givens said.
Gallie, driving a late model Ford Mustang, created a chain reaction when he rear-ended Clark's late model Nissan, causing Clark to collide with a pickup truck driven by Joshua Carreon, 21, with passenger Jaklin Romine, both of Pasadena. At least three other cars were involved in the pileup. La Cañada High School students were reportedly in one of the cars impacted by the accident. The mother of one of the involved students, who asked to remain anonymous, said that her son was in the first car at the stoplight and Clark was three cars behind his vehicle.
"He [Gallie] was going at a high speed," said the local woman. "He shoved all the cars forward."
