The Riverside County Coroner’s Office is reporting that two Temecula residents died in Sunday’s crash at Monte Vista Drive and Bundy Canyon Road in Wildomar.
Firefighters were dispatched at 4:47 p.m. to the scene where three people were involved in a two-vehicle collision.
An 80-year-old driver of a Mercury Tracer had to be extricated from the wreckage by firefighters. The Temecula woman was transported to Inland Valley Medical Center, but was pronounced dead a short time later.
The woman’s passenger – a 64-year-old Temecula man -- died at the crash scene.
Neither was ejected from the vehicle and neither has been identified yet by the coroner’s office.
According to preliminary investigation by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, a white Mercedes 300SE was traveling north on Monte Vista when it failed to stop at the stop sign at Bundy Canyon Road, said Sgt. Peter Giannakakos of the sheriff’s department.
The Mercedes collided with the Mercury Tracer, he said.
“The driver of the Mercedes did not sustain any injuries. The names of the victims are being withheld pending notification of next of kin,” the sergeant continued.
Rest in peace and may your Lord carry loved ones, through this difficult time of sadness, anger and bring comfort and strength. Until we can get drivers to realize that running red lights, stop signs, drinking and driving, wreckless driving, speeding, texting, talking on cell phone, fixing hair or makeup, and just an overall sense of entitlement to our roads, we are going to keep having our residents killed. This traffic violation killed two people and this person should be charged with a minimum of manslaughter, after the fact, like with a DUI. A DUI violation does not get a long enough sentence for the death of another human being. Ignoring driving laws will never stop until the sentences fit the crime.
Yesterday I drove behind an elderly man on Grand Ave who was driving 25 mph. There was a long line of cars behind us and people were passing in the center lane. He had no business driving a car and putting my life in jeopardy.
You are right and the Mercury was T-boned by the Mercedes on the passenger side per the pictures on the Southwest Riverside County News.