Out-of-control car veers off road, kills 7-year-old, 4 others

A 7-year-old boy and four adults were killed in Ontario after an out-of-control car drove off the 10 Freeway and hit another vehicle near an exit ramp.

The boy, Michael Pineda, was riding in the out-of-control car. He died in a nearby emergency room, officials said on Friday.

All four people in the other vehicle died at the scene. They were identified as: Matthew Pusateri, 29, of Mission Viejo; Anthony Flores, 30, of Hemet; Jeffrey Willey, 29, of Huntington Beach; and Monica Flores, 37, of Arcadia, the LATimes reports.

The crash occurred shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday, after the Toyota “began to accelerate uncontrollably” while driving east on the 10 Freeway.

The driver, “unable to stop or slow the car,” drove off the freeway at the Vineyard Avenue exit, the sheriff’s department said. It then struck the second car, a sedan driving north on Vineyard.

Three other people, a 51-year-old female driver, a 16-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, were also in the out-of-control vehicle. They were also taken to a hospital, but the extent of their injuries was not known..