The president of a California mortgage lender is accused of drunkenly dashing by a purple gentle in her Land Rover and plowing into one other automobile, killing an 88-year-old passenger.
Serene Francie Rosenberg, 48, allegedly ran a purple gentle and hit a Ford Transit van head-on in Dana Level — about 60 miles exterior of downtown Los Angeles — on Friday at round 6:15 p.m., in response to a information launch by the Orange County Sheriff’s Division Saturday.
The collision was so violent that it immediately killed the passenger of the van, Melvin Joseph Weibel, 88, a Dana Level resident.
The van’s driver was rushed to a neighborhood hospital with “severe however non-life-threatening accidents,” police mentioned.
“Based mostly on preliminary investigation, the Land Rover was touring westbound on Stonehill Drive and turned left in opposition to a purple arrow sign in entrance of the Ford Transit van touring eastbound on Stonehill Drive,” the sheriff’s division revealed.
Rosenberg, the president of OCMBC’s LoanStream Mortgage in Irvine since 2019, was arrested on suspicion of homicide and suspicion of driving below the affect on the scene.
She is at the moment booked into the Orange County Jail.
The division additionally revealed that she had “three prior convictions” earlier than she allegedly drove drunk and killed the 88-year-old van passenger.
Following the deadly collision, OCMBC launched a press release stating that Rosenberg had been positioned on administrative depart and that the corporate had “completely” changed her as president. The previous Chief Capital Markets Officer at LoanStream, John Hamel, has been chosen to exchange her.
“This has been a troublesome time for everybody affected by this tragic occasion, and our hearts exit to these impacted,” mentioned Rabi Aziz, CEO of OCMBC.
The corporate expressed “its deepest sympathies following the tragic visitors accident” within the assertion.
“Our ideas are with everybody affected by this heartbreaking occasion and we intend to watch the scenario intently, responding with care and duty in accordance with our firm’s core values.”
Aziz based OCMBC in 1992. The corporate is at the moment licensed to function in 47 states within the US.
Police are asking anybody who witnessed the lethal visitors collision or has details about it to contact the Orange County Sheriff’s Division’s Site visitors Bureau at 949-425-1860.
Nameless info could also be supplied by Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1-855-TIP-OCCS.
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