Miguel Gonzalez Killed after Car Pinned Under Ice Cream Truck on Shamrock Boulevard [Duarte, CA]

Miguel Gonzalez Killed after Car Pinned Under Ice Cream Truck on Shamrock Boulevard [Duarte, CA]

Driver Dies in High-Speed Crash on Shamrock Boulevard in Duarte

 
DUARTE, CA (July 18, 2020) – A 29-year-old Duarte man died in that city Saturday evening when the car he drove slammed into an ice cream truck.
 
First responders arrived about 6:12 p.m. at the residential address of 1928 Shamrock Boulevard to find a car pinned beneath the truck.
 
Officials extricated the driver from the car. However, paramedics declared that person dead.
 
The man was identified as Miguel Colon Gonzalez of Duarte.
 
Gonzalez drove recklessly and fast southbound from Hurstview Avenue when his Honda Civic collided with the 1988 Chevy-model truck, injuring the 61-year-old Montebello man behind the wheel.
 
The ice cream truck was traveling north at 10 miles per hour, said Officer Mike Cazares of the CHP’s Baldwin Park Station.
 
According to police, the weather was clear and sunny at the time of the accident. However, both men were determined to have been wearing seatbelts in the department’s preliminary investigation.
 
The ice cream truck driver was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
 
CHP officials are still investigating the crash. They asked anyone with further information to call Officer Mike Cazares at the CHP at 626-338-1164.

We would like to offer our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Miguel Gonzalez.

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