1 Killed, 2 Injured When Van Hits Caltrans Truck

A minivan driver and his dog died Tuesday when the vehicle slammed into a Caltrans truck in a construction zone on Interstate 10 in El Monte. Two Caltrans workers were injured in the crash.A minivan driver was traveling 65 mph in a lane that was closed for construction on the freeway.
The van slammed into the rear of a Caltrans truck that was backing up in the same lane.

The minivan driver and his dog died at the scene. Two Caltrans workers were hospitalized with minor injuries.
The fatal accident occurred shortly after 4 a.m. near Peck Road, according to a report in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
CHP Officer Doris Peniche told the Tribune that 32-year-old David Sanders of San Bernardino a 2002 Ford Windstar minivan westbound on Interstate 10, in a lane that was closed for road work.At the same time, a Caltrans truck was backing up in the lane, with two contractors in the back picking up orange construction cones.

The minvan rear-ended the truck at about 65 mph. The minivan driver and his dog, a female pit bull that was riding in the front passenger seat, died at the scene.
The driver of the Caltrans truck and one of the workers who was in the back picking up cones suffered relatively minor injuries and were transported to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Baldwin Park to be treated. Their names were not released, but they were identified as a 34-year-old man from Beaumont and a 40-year-old man from Moreno Valley.
Two days earlier, two suspected drunk drivers crashed into each other’s vehicles on Interstate 405 in Torrance, and then one of the vehicles slammed into a repaving truck in a construction zone. Two Caltrans workers were killed in that accident.