11:15am | A young Long Beach woman was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles early Monday morning after the driver of the vehicle she was riding in slammed into a wall, flipping the vehicle, police said.
Darlene Rosemary Monarrez, 22, of Long Beach, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the L.A. County Coroner’s Office.
Monarrez was one of three passengers riding in the vehicle, which was being driven by a man who was allegedly driving under the influence when he apparently lost control of the vehicle near the intersection of Broadway and Century Boulevard in South Los Angeles, resulting in the 1:41 a.m. crash, police said.
Rescue workers who responded to the scene found two men and two women pinned inside the overturned car, and firefighters had to extricate them from the vehicle, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Ruben Vega.
The driver, whose name was not immediately released, was critically injured and rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The other two passengers were not seriously injured, Vega said.
Police believe the driver was drunk, and Vega said the man could be booked on suspicion of DUI and vehicular manslaughter once his condition improves.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story featured a photograph of a woman whom we mistakenly identified as Darlene Rosemary Monarrez, 22, of Long Beach. This was based off of an incorrect report featured in an L.A. Weekly news blog regarding the accident. While she and Monarrez share the same name, the woman in the photograph is not the Darlene Monarrez who died in the auto accident on Monday. We apologize for the error.