Glendora teen dies after falling from Jeep

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> An 18-year-old Glendora man died this weekend after he fell from the side of a Jeep while standing on the vehicle’s running board as another teen drove it up Glendora Mountain Road, authorities said.
Jacob Mendez-Alonso died at a hospital following the mishap, which took place about 12:35 a.m. Saturday on Glendora Mountain road, north of Big Dalton Canyon Road, California Highway Patrol officials said in a written statement.
Mendez-Alonso had been a passenger in a 2012 Jeep Wrangler being driven by a 17-year-old Glendora boy prior to the incident, officials said.
“(The driver) allowed his passenger to stand on the running board on the outside of he right front passenger side of his vehicle,” according to the CHP statement.
The teen drove about 3-and-a-half miles up Glendora Mountain Road at about 45 mph, officials said.
“Mr. Mendez-Alonso, for unknown reasons, fell of the side of the Jeep,” according to the statement. “His head collided with the asphalt roadway.”
The driver stopped the Jeep, and he and other passengers called 911 and tried to help their injured companion.
Paramedics took Mendez-Alonso to Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora where he ultimately succumbed to his injuries.
The crash remains under investigation, and no arrests were made. Anyone with information is asked to contact CHP Officer K. Bush of the CHP’s Baldwin Park area office at 626-338-1164.

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