(L.A.) Jessica Mejia, 20, Died in a Hospital

Case Number: 2014-01077

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 20-year-old Hispanic female that occurred in a hospital.

The coroner’s office identified the young woman as Jessica Mejia.

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Multiple Traumatic Injuries

RIP JESSICA MEJIA (April 14, 1993 – February 9, 2014)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Sunday at 6:27 a.m.

Olivia Carolee Culbreath, 26, of Fontana, was driving 100 mph northbound in the southbound lanes of the 57 Freeway and then eastbound in the westbound lanes of the 60 Freeway, where her 2013 Chevrolet Camaro collided head-on with a Ford Explorer.

Three generations of family members in the Explorer were killed: Huntington Park residents Gregorio Mejia-Martinez, 47; Leticia Ibarra, 42; their daughter, Jessica Mejia, 20; and her grandmother, Ester Delgado, 80. Culbreath’s 24-year-old sister, Maya, and one of Culbreath’s friends, Kristin Young, 21, of Chino, also died in the crash. Culbreath was injured but was the only one to survive.