County authorities Thursday publicly identified two young men who died when a speeding sedan crashed into a light pole in the Winnetka neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley.
The crash was reported about 2 a.m. Tuesday in the 20500 block of W. Parthenia Street, near Mason Avenue, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Jamie Stewart.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the passenger, who died at the scene, as Ivan Iakovlev, 22, and the driver, who died at a hospital, as Alexandr Gubko, 20. Places of residence were not immediately available for either man, who both died from traumatic injuries suffered in the crash…