Hoover student killed in car accident

Judy Seckler

HOOVER HIGH SCHOOL -- Two weeks after the death of Hoover High School

student Raul Aguirre, another student from the school was killed in a car

accident on the Ventura (101) Freeway in Thousand Oaks when he was thrown

from the sport utility vehicle in which he was a passenger.

The SUV carrying three Hoover High school students was traveling north

on the Ventura Freeway approaching the Moorpark exit at 2:30 a.m. Sunday.

According to a California Highway Patrol report, the driver allowed

the vehicle to drift to the right -- possibly due to fatigue. The SUV

drifted on to the shoulder of the freeway and went through two chain-link

fences, became airborne and collided with an unoccupied, parked truck in

a private parking lot. It broke through a third chain-link fence before

coming to a rest. No alcohol or drugs were involved in the accident, the

report stated.

Hamoon Hajianpour, 18, who was in the back seat and was not wearing a

seat belt, was thrown from the SUV. He died from blunt-force head

injuries, a spokeswoman for Ventura County Medical Examiner’s office

said.

The driver, Nestor Sala, 18, who was wearing a seat belt, received

cuts to the head. The front right passenger, Alan Scandar, 17, who was

also wearing a seat belt, received cuts to his scalp and abrasions.

Scandar was taken to Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks

and released later Sunday morning.

The news reached Hoover Co-Principal Kevin Welsh at 7 a.m. Monday.

“It’s heart-breaking,” Welsh said. “He was a nice kid with a big

smile.”

Welsh was on the phone with the Hajianpour family immediately after

hearing the news. He visited with the family at 8:30 a.m., while

Co-Principal Pamela Good met with them later that morning.

Parents Mohammed and Zahra Hajianpour were inconsolable, Welsh said.

They made it a point to watch over their children. Hajianpour has a

brother who attends Clark Magnet High School and a sister at Jefferson

Elementary School.

A memorial vigil was started Monday on the Hoover campus near the

school’s flagpole. A lot of people knew him, Welsh said.

The funeral is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. today at Forest Lawn

Memorial-Park, Hollywood Hills.