Redondo Beach About Town: Driver killed on Torrance Blvd., Rolex stolen at gunpoint, Redondo Schools Virus update
by Garth Meyer Driver killed on wet Torrance Boulevard A driver was killed Sunday morning at 2:46 a.m. when his vehicle, going east on Torrance Boulevard in Redondo Beach, hit a tree at the intersection of Irena Avenue. Identified as a white male in his 30s from Westwood, the single-occupant driver of the 2007 5-class Mercedes lost control and went into a diagonal slide, according to Redondo Beach Sgt. Scot Martin. The car wrapped around the tree next to a retaining wall. The suspected causes of the crash are speed, wet roads and “very bald tires,” Martin said. “The speed may have only been 15 mph over the limit, but with the other factors, it might have been enough to add up,” Martin said. Whether the driver was wearing a seatbelt has not been determined. “It didn’t appear so. We haven’t confirmed that,” Martin said. Passersby called the police. Through video from a nearby business later that morning, police determined a time of the accident. Rolex stolen at gunpoint A robbery of a Rolex watch at gunpoint on the International Boardwalk at the Redondo Pier led to a manhunt last Friday afternoon, March 18. The suspect was thought to be last seen on a bicycle in the area of North…
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