Man uninjured in car rollover
Mike Swanson
A Brea resident suffered only a scraped arm early Aug. 15 after his
Mazda Miata flipped and skidded about 200 feet on Laguna Canyon Road.
David Walloch, 42, said he remembered driving southbound at about
60 mph and the next thing he knew, he was upside down screeching
across the road.
“He’s lucky to be alive,” Sgt. George Ramos said. “If his car
didn’t have a Fiberglas top and was one of those convertibles, he’d
be dead.”
Judging from the accident scene, which was between El Toro Road
and San Joaquin Hills Toll Road, Walloch’s Miata apparently struck
the guardrail, flew about seven feet in the air and hit a sign with
flashing yellow lights, then skidded across traffic and stopped on
the median, Ramos said. Walloch said he had no idea how it happened.
The time of the accident, 6:47 a.m., may also have saved Walloch’s
and others’ lives, Ramos said.
“There were still cars out there, but the traffic was pretty
light,” Ramos said. “I really can’t believe how lucky this guy was.”
Walloch was taken by ambulance to Mission Hospital and held
overnight for observation. They released him the next day.
Ramos said even Walloch’s laptop computer that fell out of the
trunk was virtually undamaged.
“It was just sitting there in the road in its little case,” Ramos
said. “We popped it open, turned it on and it powered right up. Then
the guy says, ‘See, it’s an Apple.’ Lucky, lucky man.”
The accident put Laguna Canyon Road on Sig Alert for more than two
hours, Sgt. Darin Lenyi said.
Police later issued Walloch a citation for driving off the
roadway.
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