Car Slips on Wet Road, Kills Chaparral Grad

A Chapparal High School graduate was killed when his car slid into oncoming traffic on a wet road and crashed.

Michael Reeves Krempin, a 27-year-old Murrieta resident, was driving west on Highway 76 just east of Sage Road in Fallbrook in his 2002 Mazda Protege around 9:30 a.m. when he lost control of his car in the rain, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Samuel Bower, 22, of Fallbrook, the driver of the other vehicle, tried to avoid Krempin's vehicle, but broadsided it, killing the driver.

Krempin was alone in his vehicle. Bower's vehicle had four passengers, and they were rushed to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to the Highway Patrol.