According to a coroners press release at about 2:43 PM on March 1, 2014, Marissa Trujillo, a 7-year-old resident of San Bernardino, was with her family parked at the side of the road in the Valley of the Falls when an oncoming vehicle struck her family’s pick-up truck.
Marissa and other family members standing outside the pick-up sustained serious injuries when caught between the vehicles. The injured were transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center emergency room, where Marissa was pronounced dead at 3:48 PM.
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The collision is under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.
