The 16-year-old boy who died in a serious traffic accident in the Clairemont Mesa area that also left one San Diego police officer dead and a second seriously injured was identified Wednesday by the San Diego County coroner.
Edgar Giovanny Oviedo was driving a BMW at a high rate of speed when it collided with a patrol car and several other vehicles in the 5200 block of Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, near Doliva Drive, around 11:30 p.m. Monday, SDPD Chief Scott Wahl told reporters Tuesday.
The crash threw 27-year-old Officer Zach Martinez through the windshield of the police vehicle, which then caught fire, OnSceneTV reported. The driver of the patrol car, Officer Austin Machitar, a 30-year-old father of four, died at the scene. Paramedics took Martinez to a trauma center in critical condition.
Martinez was a trainee of Machitar and the two occasionally patrolled together, police said.
Oviedo was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the coroner.
The occupants of the other cars involved in the pile-up were not seriously injured, Wahl said.
The SDPD has turned over the investigation into the fatal crash to the California Highway Patrol “due to the enormity of the situation and all the emotions behind it,” Wahl said.
