Driver Loses Control on Highway 74; Plunges to Death Down Hillside

A 23-year-old motorist killed in a rollover crash along the Ortega (74) Highway west of Lake Elsinore may have lost control on a bend in the road, the California Highway Patrol said Friday.

Isaac Barboza of Menifee was fatally injured at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday on the westbound side of the corridor, west of Decker Canyon Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Officer Brian Seel said Barboza was traveling at an unconfirmed speed in his 2012 Honda Civic when the vehicle “traveled off the northern roadway edge and overturned down an embankment.”…

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