Mother, 12-year-old killed by sports car going wrong way on I-805
August 24, 2018
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| Aileen Pizarro and her daughter Aryana Pizarro |
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| Aileen Pizarro and her daughter Aryana Pizarro |
YouTube gamer, McSkillet, real name Trevor Heitmann killed car crash victims pictured
SAN DIEGO, CA (CNS) -
An 18-year-old driving a sports car the wrong direction on Interstate 805 died and killed two people when the car collided with an SUV, causing a fiery pileup in the Miramar area, officials said Friday.
The series of collisions involving as many as five vehicles -- two of which wound up ablaze -- occurred on the northbound side of the freeway near Miramar Road shortly after 4:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
An 18-year-old man driving a 2014 McLaren sports car was traveling southbound in the northbound I-805 HOV lane at a high rate of speed when the car struck a 2010 Hyundai SUV traveling northbound on I-805 near La Jolla Village Drive, according to CHP and the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.
The McLaren driver, a 43-year-old woman driving the Hyundai and 12- year-old girl riding in the Hyundai died at the scene, according to the Medical Examiner's Office. The names of the victims were held pending family notification.
One person was taken to a hospital for treatment of serious but non- life-threatening trauma, CHP public affairs Officer Jake Sanchez said.
Northbound traffic was diverted off I-805 at the La Jolla Village Drive exit until two right lanes were reopened around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Doerr said. All northbound lanes at La Jolla Village Drive were reopened around 2:30 a.m.
The circumstances leading up to the McLaren driver traveling in the wrong direction on I-805 remain under investigation.
Around 30 minutes before the crash, a motorist smashed through a gate at Ashley Falls Elementary School in the Carmel Valley area before speeding off, according to San Diego police.
Witnesses reported seeing the driver of a black sports car slam through the gate, get out of the car, smash a window on a school building and speed out of the campus parking lot.
CHP officers were at the school Thursday, but officials did not say whether the two incidents were connected.
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Popular YouTuber identified in wrong-way crash that killed mother and daughter
Saturday, August 25, 2018
The driver in a horrific wrong way crash that killed three people in California Thursday has been identified.
Police say 18-year-old Trevor Heitmann was behind the wheel of a $200,000 McLaren sports car that barreled down the wrong side of the road.
The accident killed Heitman, a 43-year-old woman and a 12-year-old girl.
Investigators say Heitmann had a popular Youtube channel where he mostly discussed video games under the name "McSkillet."
According to authorities, Heitmann was struggling with depression when he caused the crash. =================================
Mother, 12-year-old girl killed by McLaren sports car going wrong way
The 18-year-old McLaren driver also died on the scene.
Author: Tegna
August 24, 2018
SAN DIEGO, CA —
An 18-year-old driving a sports car the wrong direction on Interstate 805 died and killed two people when the car collided with an SUV, causing a fiery pileup in the Miramar area, officials said Friday.
The series of collisions involving as many as five vehicles -- two of which wound up ablaze -- occurred on the northbound side of the freeway near Miramar Road shortly after 4:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
An 18-year-old man driving a 2014 McLaren sports car was traveling southbound in the northbound I-805 HOV lane at a high rate of speed when the car struck a 2010 Hyundai SUV traveling northbound on I-805 near La Jolla Village Drive, according to CHP and the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.
The McLaren driver, a 43-year-old woman driving the Hyundai and 12- year-old girl riding in the Hyundai died at the scene, according to the Medical Examiner's Office. The names of the victims were held pending family notification.
One person was taken to a hospital for treatment of serious but non- life-threatening trauma, CHP public affairs Officer Jake Sanchez said.
Northbound traffic was diverted off I-805 at the La Jolla Village Drive exit until two right lanes were reopened around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Doerr said. All northbound lanes at La Jolla Village Drive were reopened around 2:30 a.m.
The circumstances leading up to the McLaren driver traveling in the wrong direction on I-805 remain under investigation.
Around 30 minutes before the crash, a motorist smashed through a gate at Ashley Falls Elementary School in the Carmel Valley area before speeding off, according to San Diego police.
Witnesses reported seeing the driver of a black sports car slam through the gate, get out of the car, smash a window on a school building and speed out of the campus parking lot.
CHP officers were at the school Thursday, but officials did not say whether the two incidents were connected.
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The 18-year-old who sped the wrong way down state Route 805 Thursday, crashing into a SUV and killing himself, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, was a YouTube star who had made a small fortune in video gaming gambling, according to authorities and hundreds of gaming fans on Twitter.
The California Highway Patrol identified him Friday as Trevor Heitmann of San Diego.
But the nearly 900,000 subscribers to his YouTube video channel and his Twitter followers knew him as “McSkillet.”
Various tweets by gaming fans said he had been banned from facilitating e-sport gambling that had brought him a sizable income — enough to buy a handmade, 2015 British McLaren 650S sports car that would have cost $250,000 or more.
The McLaren, with Heitmann behind the wheel, slammed head-on into a Hyundai SUV and both vehicles burst into flames. Those who died in the SUV were tentatively identified by the county Medical Examiner’s Office as a 43-year-old San Diego woman and her 12-year-old daughter.
The woman’s son identified them as Aileen Pizarro and her daughter Aryana Pizarro. They lived in the College Area. Aileen Pizzaro was a marriage and family counselor working toward her license, and her daughter was set to start seventh grade on Monday, Dominic Pizarro said.
Heitman was headed south in northbound HOV lanes of I-805 near Sorrento Valley about 4:40 p.m. Thursday when he rammed the on-coming SUV. Other cars hit the flaming wreckage, causing at least one serious injury. Debris from the damaged vehicles flew across freeway lanes and the McLaren “disintegrated,” CHP Officer Jake Sanchez said.
Sanchez said he believes Heitmann entered the freeway at Carroll Canyon Road.
A crash investigation and cleanup of the freeway kept three lanes closed for 10 hours.