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Driver ejected, lands on freeway sign

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Oct 31, 2015

A California driver ejected from his vehicle landed on a freeway sign and died Friday morning.

Richard Pananian, 20, of Burbank, California, was killed in the acciden,t which occurred around 7 a.m., according to KTLA.

Pananian was seen driving his Ford Fiesta at a high rate of speed before hitting the rear of a pickup truck and overturning multiple times, according to KTLA. Pananian was thrown about 20 feet into the air, landing on an exit ramp sign overhead, according to KTLA.

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Pananian was not believed to be wearing his seatbelt, according to KTLA.

"Any time you speed and you don't wear your seat belt, there's a good chance you're going to get hurt, if not killed," Edgar Figueroa, a California Highway Patrol officer on the scene, said to KTLA.

A white sheet was draped over Pananian's body on the sign's catwalk for several hours until coroners could arrive, according to KTLA.


BREAKING NEWS: A driver was killed after being ejected onto a sign on the 5 Freeway near Colorado Street near Glendale following a rollover crash. http://abc7.la/1XEE5LA

Posted by ABC7 on Friday, October 30, 2015

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