(L.A.) Jaime Bañuelos, 58, Died in an Accident

Case Number: 2023-10974

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 58-year-old Latino male that occurred on a street in Santa Clarita.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Jaime Banuelos.

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Multple Blunt Force Traumatic Injuries

RIP JAIME BAÑUELOS (August 30, 1964 – August 19, 2023)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Saturday at 11:48 p.m.

The decedent was killed in a two-vehicle collision in Santa Clarita over the weekend. The crash occurred at around 11:26 p.m. at Soledad Canyon Road and Sierra Highway.

Jaime Bañuelos had worked at Heritage Christian School for more than 40 years.

 

On Saturday night at around 11:26 pm, the Antelope Valley CHP station received a call of a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Soledad Canyon Rd and Sierra Highway, in Acton.

Upon arriving on the scene, emergency services personnel found a mangled Lincoln Continental and a white Toyota down in the embankment.

The driver of the Lincoln was taken to Antelope Valley Hospital via ambulance with unknown injuries. The driver of the Toyota, 58-year-old Jaime Bañuelos, was rendered life-saving measures at the scene, but succumbed to his injuries.

According to witnesses at the scene, it appeared that the Lincoln was travelling in a southbound direction at an unknown rate of speed when it broadsided the Toyota, that was possibly making a left turn onto Sierra Highway.

 

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