18.Įven before emergency rooms were overflowing, seeking treatment for an injury was discouraged in takeover circles, Zagorski said. He was charged with vehicular manslaughter in addition to reckless driving, and remained in custody as of Dec. His cousin, Mynor Augusto Esquilvalle, 22, also from Los Angeles, was driving the pickup and arrested at the scene of the crash. But before units could get to the reassembled sideshow, a truck apparently doing a doughnut rolled over, killing Sergio Marroquin Osorio, 23, of Los Angeles.
Officers there were notified that the group was on its way. The woman, a spectator, was hospitalized and a driver was arrested for hitting her, then leaving the scene.Īfterward, the pack of cars in Anaheim scattered and headed toward Costa Mesa. The car’s back end clipped her, throwing her into the air before she fell to the ground. 22, driving recklessly and performing doughnuts as cellphone video captured the maneuvers.Ī car slid sideways into a woman who was standing nearby.
Patten died at the scene of the crash.Įarlier this year, some 200 cars descended upon the Anaheim Plaza parking lot on Euclid Street in the early hours of Oct. Patten, 66, was filming drag races at an annual street racing event held in the Carson area on Christmas day when a black Cadillac and a blue Pontiac collided with each other, then veered into a crowd of people. The Huntington Beach-based photographer, known among classic car buffs for his videos showcasing sanctioned events in and around Southern California, typically avoided underground events, friends and relatives said.īut when many legal venues hosting car shows were shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, he began turning to illegal meetups. And now, at the height of a pandemic and record-shattering hospitalizations, emergency rooms don’t need extra traffic.ĭaniel “Dano” Patten never even made it to a hospital after he was struck while documenting a street race on Christmas Day.
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