One Dead in Paramount Freeway Crash

Paramount - An alleged drunk driver killed a 42-year-old man in a collision on a Paramount freeway, a California Highway Patrol officer said today.

A silver 2000 BMW M3 collided with a 1997 Toyota Celica on the transition road from the westbound Glenn Anderson (105) Freeway to the northbound Long Beach (710) Freeway about 8:40 p.m. Saturday, CHP Officer Anthony Martin said.

The Toyota struck a curb and overturned on an embankment. The driver, Segundo Napoles of Lynwood, was pronounced dead at the scene, Martin said.

The BMW veered several hundred feet ahead and struck a guardrail, he said.

The driver, Juan Garcia Sotello, 29, of Norwalk, was taken to Saint Francis Medical Center in Lynwood with moderate injuries and later arrested, he said.

The fatality was the fifth on Los Angeles County freeways and roads patrolled since the Thanksgiving holiday period started.