Don't blame the Crest, officials say: it's the drivers, not the road

By Daniel Siegal

Pasadena Sun

Despite another fatal crash on Angeles Crest Highway over the weekend — the fourth since the lower part of the highway reopened in June of this year — the California Highway Patrol says that it’s drivers who are dangerous, not the road.

On Saturday, Bellflower resident Edgar Martinez, 18, was driving on the highway at 45 to 50 miles per hour when he entered a curve but failed to turn, hitting a mountainside and flipping his car, according to Officer Ming Hsu of the CHP.

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Photo: An SUV passes cyclists traveling southbound on Angeles Crest Highway at around mile marker 32 in the Angeles National Forest above La Canada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer, Pasadena Sun)