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Driver, 21, suspected of DUI in crash that killed her passenger

By Corina Knoll
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A passenger in her 20s was killed Sunday in Garden Grove when the vehicle she was in collided with a telephone pole and struck a building, authorities said.

The victim was one of three occupants of a vehicle driven by a 21-year-old woman suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol, Garden Grove Police said in a statement.

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The car was headed north on Brookhurst Street at about 3:30 a.m. when it ran off the road, hit a telephone pole and crashed into a building near Imperial Avenue, the statement said.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver and the other passenger were taken to a hospital.

No other information was given. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Investigator Adam Zmija at (714) 741-5847.

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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