Truck Plunges Off San Diego Bridge Leaving Four Dead

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(Newswire.net — October 17, 2016) — The driver, 25-year-old Richard Anthony Sepolio, struck a guardrail and fell 60 feet before landing on a vendor booth set up for a motorcycle festival in Chicano Park, near the 1900 block of Julian Avenue, on Saturday.

Sepolio was taken to the hospital with major injuries and will be arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence causing deaths and injuries, California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Sanchez said.

The possibly drunk driver is an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy stationed at a base on Coronado Island.

Eyewitnesses said that the pickup truck fell on a tent set up for motorcycle rides during the festival, just after 3:30pm. They added that there were several hundred people in the tent.

Authorities identified the victims as a 62-year-old man and 50-year-old woman from Chandler, Ariz., and a 59-year-old man and 49-year-old woman from Hacienda Heights, a suburb east of Los Angeles. The names have not yet been released.

According to the witnesses, all four deceased victims were in the vendor booth that was crushed by the truck.

Lee Swanson, a spokesman for the city’s Fire-Rescue Department said that eight people were injured. One suffered major trauma and seven others had minor to moderate injuries, reports Fox News.

The La Raza Run festival in San Diego where the accident occurred, is a motorcycle ride that ends with a celebration at the park and typically draws hundreds of participants with its tradition of live music, food, and lots of other fun activities.

“I saw a truck come right off the freeway. It was going so fast it flew over the stage and landed in front of the stage on a tent, a booth that was set up,” Chase Dameron told The San Diego Union-Tribune, and added: “It was like a movie. It was like in slow motion. Where it hit, there was dust and debris and instant chaos and panic. People running cr