US EditionFather ID'd In Fatal Driving Lesson Crash
- James Politoski, 64, died Monday, May 26, in Laguna Beach while teaching his 15-year-old daughter to drive at a market parking lot.
- During a driving lesson in the parking area of a Gelson’s market, a teenage girl with a learner’s permit lost control of the vehicle, causing it to break through a fence and tumble down an embankment.
- Their sedan rolled about 40 feet, ending upside down on the Coast Highway sidewalk near Wesley Drive and Montage Resort Drive.
- Authorities said a pedal mix-up may have caused the accident, and the daughter was seriously injured but expected to survive after being taken to Mission Hospital.
- The fatal crash during a driving lesson deeply affected the community, with police calling it a tragic loss of someone 'being a good parent.
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Teen girl, 15, crashes car off 40ft cliff and kills dad in the passenger seat
A TEENAGER’S driving lesson ended in horror after a deadly plunge off a cliff. The crash killed the young girl’s father, who was teaching her how to drive, according to police. 64-year-old James Politoski was killed in a crash during his teenage daughter’s driving lesson Politoski was in the passenger seat when it crashed through a fence in the upper parking lot It happened on Memorial Day in Laguna Beach, California, just fifty miles from Los A…
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Teen was taking driving lesson when car rolled off embankment and killed father
A man was fatally injured and his teenage daughter seriously injured when their car rolled through a fence out of a grocery store parking lot and down an embankment below during driving lesson, authorities said.
·Las Vegas, United States
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