Follow-Up: Two Victims Identified in North Hollywood Crash That Killed 3: Maria Peck and Teodora Villalobos

LOS ANGELES — Two of the three women killed in the sidewalk crash in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, have now been identified. According to the website of the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner, the two are Maria Peck, 73, and Teodora Villalobos, 57. The name of the third woman killed had not been released as of Wednesday afternoon.

NBC Los Angeles and the New York Post reported that Peck was a mother of five and Villalobos, from El Salvador, was a mother of three. The two were longtime street vendors at the busy intersection of Lankershim Boulevard and Chandler Boulevard, where neighbors said they had become familiar faces. Two other women, both in their 50s, remained in critical condition in a hospital. A relief fund set up by City Councilman Adrin Nazarian and the nonprofit Initiating Change in Our Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation (ICON CDC) had raised more than $8,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.

The crash happened at about 5:55 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10. A white Toyota Sienna driving southbound on Lankershim Boulevard, south of Chandler Boulevard, veered onto the sidewalk next to the entrance of the North Hollywood Metro station at an unsafe speed and struck multiple pedestrians and street vendors, according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Three women died at the scene. The driver, Ihor Demianenko, 61, of Valley Village, was booked on Wednesday at the LAPD Valley Jail in Van Nuys on suspicion of driving under the influence and three counts of murder, and is being held on $6.03 million bail.

The offenses listed at booking are not the same as formal charges filed by prosecutors. As of Wednesday afternoon, the case had not yet been presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office and no arraignment date had been announced. Whether the crash was intentional or an accident remains under investigation. The incident is still developing.

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(Source: County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner)

Source: County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner

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Photo: 图：事发地点 North Hollywood 地铁站的 G 线巴士站台，一辆 G 线巴士正在充电（资料图，非事发现场）。洛杉矶县都会交通局（Metro）摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A G Line bus charging at North Hollywood Metro station, the station at the crash location (file photo, not the crash scene). By Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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