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SANTA ANA (CNS) - A Huntington Beach man pleaded guilty Tuesday and was immediately sentenced to 10 years in prison for a crash on the Garden Grove (22) Freeway in Westminster in 2018 that killed a passenger in his car.
Trevor Lee Clemente, 35, pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. As part of the plea deal, a second-degree murder charge was dismissed.
Clemente was driving west on the freeway about 1 a.m. on June 30, 2018, when the car veered to the left and slammed into a concrete center median wall just west of Springdale Street, causing the vehicle to overturn multiple times, according to the California Highway Patrol. A passenger, Elizabeth Camarena of Westminster, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Clemente was taken to Long Beach Memorial Hospital for treatment of major injuries. He was booked at the time on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs, according to the CHP.