ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> Authorities have identified a 22-year-old Pasadena man who died in a head-on collision between his Honda Civic and a pickup truck on a winding forest road late Thursday.
Genaro Pliego died following the crash, which took place about 8:45 p.m. at mile marker 27.38 of Angeles Crest Highway, in the Angeles National Forest north of La Canada Flintridge, Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner Lt. David Smith said.
He was at the wheel of a 1998 Honda Civic that was heading south, rounding a turn, when the car crossed into an opposing traffic lane and struck a Ford F-550 pickup truck head-on, California Highway Patrol Officer J. Saunders said in a written statement.
Paramedics pronounced Pliego dead at the scene, officials said. The driver of the pickup truck suffered injuries described as minor.
An autopsy determined he dead from “traumatic injuries,” and the death was ruled accident, according to coroner’s records.
The cause of the crash remained under investigation by the CHP’s Altadena-area office.

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