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Victim ID'd in North County Car Crash Involving La Mesa Family
Huy Pham was driving south on a curving stretch of Valley Center Road about 11:45 a.m. Monday when his 1996 Toyota Camry veered into an oncoming 2007 Chrysler Town & Country minivan near Cole Grade Road, according to the Medical Examiner's Off
A 52-year-old man who died in a head-on collision on a North County road was identified today as an Escondido resident.
Huy Pham was driving south on a curving stretch of Valley Center Road about 11:45 a.m. Monday when his 1996 Toyota Camry veered into an oncoming 2007 Chrysler Town & Country minivan near Cole Grade Road, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.
Pham died at the scene while trapped in his car, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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In the minivan were a 38-year-old La Mesa man, his 40-year-old wife and their 7-year-old twin boys, all of whom were airlifted to hospitals, according to the CHP.
Intoxication apparently was not a factor in the accident, CHP public- affairs Officer Jim Bettencourt said.
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–City News Service
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