(L.A.) Shane Rivera, 41, Died in a Two-Vehicle Collision

Case Number: 2022-09018

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 41-year-old male of “Latin American” ethnicity that occurred on a road.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Shane Rivera. L.A. resident born in Flushing, Queens, New York.

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Blunt Trauma

RIP SHANE ANGEL RIVERA (March 23, 1981 – August 28, 2022)

Rivera was a passenger in a vehicle involved in the head-on collision described below.

According to a report from the CHP, Wilber Montenegro was driving his white 2019 BMW M5 with two passengers southbound on San Francisquito Canyon Road, south of North Quail Trail, when he allegedly made an unsafe turning movement to the left.

Spencer Thomas was driving with his girlfriend Ashlynn Vonderau in a blue 1989 GMC Suburban northbound on that road when Montenegro traveled over double yellow lines and collided with Thomas’s vehicle.

The fiery collision resulted in the deaths of Thomas, Montenegro, Rivera, and Eugene Segura, who died the day after in a hospital.

Rivera is survived by his wife Karen Ariola.