A 43-year-old woman and two children died on Saturday, March 30, after a car hydroplaned in the rain and collided head-on with another car on the 15 Freeway in the San Bernardino County desert northeast of Baker, authorities said.
At about 1:40 p.m., the driver of a 2019 Kia — carrying five other people — was heading south along the freeway, amid a heavy downpour, when the vehicle hydroplaned near Halloran Springs Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The Kia traveled across the southbound lanes, across the median and into the northbound lanes where it collided head-on with a 2016 Mercedes SUV with four people inside.
A woman and a 13-year-old boy inside the Kia — both passengers and residents of Madera, a town near Fresno — along with an 11-year-old Los Angeles boy who was in the Mercedes were killed.
The San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office identified the woman as Alicia M. Ramos. The boys’ names had not been announced.
Seven others were taken to hospitals, authorities said.
Staff writer Brian Rokos contributed to this report.
