An attorney from California has been convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the death of a big rig driver on the 22 Freeway in Orange County more than six years ago, officials announced on Tuesday.
Lotfullah Sohaib Latif, 33, of Irvine, abandoned his blacked-out disabled Honda after crashing into a guardrail near Valley View Avenue and left it facing the wrong way, resulting in the tragic June 9, 2019, crash, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office stated.
A few minutes after the crash, dispatchers received calls about a semi-truck colliding with the Honda and bursting into flames. The driver of the semi-truck, 58-year-old Carlos Alberto Lara, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Latif initially denied drinking or having been involved in a collision when he was contacted by California Highway Patrol officers on the right shoulder of the freeway…