RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- A DUI suspect was arrested after two people were killed in a wrong-way crash early Friday morning on the 91 Freeway in Riverside, authorities said.
A caller reported a motorist traveling westbound in eastbound lanes at 1:47 a.m., a California Highway Patrol spokesperson said. The violent collision was reported three minutes later near Arlington Avenue.
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Two women in the victims' vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene, the spokesperson said. A male passenger in that vehicle was transported to a hospital with major injuries.
Officers arrested the male suspect as he was walking away from the crash site, according to the CHP.
A good Samaritan described efforts to rescue the innocent victims in the immediate aftermath of the impact.
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"We wound up getting the back window broken. We got the front door open as well," Kevin Brown said. "And when I looked, to help the driver, I noticed that ... um ... I noticed that she was passed away. She was gone."
Neither the victims nor the suspect were immediately identified.