UPDATED: Five hurt, teen accused of DUI following 60 Freeway offramp crash in Pomona

POMONA — Five people were injured — three of them critically — and an Ontario teen is accused of drunken driving following a solo-vehicle crash on a freeway offramp in Pomona late Friday, less than a mile from another suspected DUI crash last weekend in which six people lost their lives, authorities said.
The crash took place at the end of the Phillips Ranch Road offramp of the westbound 60 Freeway, Los Angles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Cheryl Sims said.
“A call came in about 11 o’clock (Friday) night of a black pickup truck on the side of the offramp,” California Highway Patrol Officer Jennifer Cassidy said.
The 2005 Dodge Ram had rolled over, ultimately coming to a rest back on its wheels, she said.
Witnesses reported two occupants were walking outside of the truck and bleeding, according to CHP logs.
Rescuers landed a helicopter at nearby Diamond Ranch High School to fly two of the critically injured patients to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, according to fire and CHP officials. The third badly injured person was taken to the trauma center by ambulance.
Two other patients suffered minor injuries in the crash, Sims said.
It was not initially clear if the driver, a 17-year-old Ontario boy accused of driving under the influence at the time of the crash, was among the seriously injured.
His four passengers included two 19-year-old men from Ontario, an 18-year-old Ontario man and another 17-year-old boy whose city of residence was not available, CHP Sgt. Carlo Fusco said.
Exactly how the crash occurred remained under investigation, he added.
The crash occurred just east of the spot where six people died early Sunday morning in a wrong-way, head-on collision blamed on a suspected DUI driver, who was the sole survivor of the crash.
Killed were four family members riding in a Ford Explorer, as well as two passenger in the 21-year-old suspect’s Chevrolet Camaro. One of them was the suspect’s older sister.
Prosecutors have since charged Olivia Culbreath of Fontana, who has a previous drunken driving conviction, with six counts of murder in connection with Sunday’s crash.

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