The teenage passenger who was critically injured in a crash in Yorba Linda on Friday night, Nov. 6 has died, authorities said.
Brooklyn Olivia Mejia, 16, of Yorba Linda died after being hospitalized in critical condition, said Orange County Sheriff’s Sgt. Gerard McCann on Sunday evening.
Mejia was hospitalized following a two-vehicle crash in the area of Yorba Linda Boulevard and Ohio Street around 8 p.m. During the crash, one of the vehicles struck a tree.
The driver, 16-year-old Matthew Andres Santome of Placentia, was pronounced dead at the hospital on Friday.
The other vehicle involved in the crash had minor damage and the driver remained at the scene following the collision, authorities said.
Neither drugs nor alcohol were suspected to be involved in the crash. Investigation into the circumstances leading to the collision was still underway as of Sunday evening, according to McCann.