US EditionFather ID'd In Fatal Driving Lesson Crash
- A 64-year-old Laguna Beach man named James Politoski died Monday during a driving lesson when their car crashed near a Gelson's market parking lot.
- The crash occurred after the teenager with a learner's permit, her daughter, allegedly mixed up pedals causing the car to roll through a fence and down a 40-foot embankment.
- The sedan came to rest overturned on the Coast Highway sidewalk while Politoski was seated in the passenger seat, and his 15-year-old daughter suffered serious injuries that required hospitalization.
- Laguna Beach police Lt. Jesse Schmidt called it "a tragic incident" that shook the community as a father lost his life while teaching his daughter to drive.
- The man died at the scene and the daughter was taken to Mission Hospital with significant injuries but is expected to survive, while police continue investigating the crash.
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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…
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.
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