Authorities have publicly identified two members of a Chula Vista family who lost their lives to a predawn freeway crash in East County on Memorial Day.
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Aaron Jose Perez, 25, and his sister, Sophia, 24, were fatally injured shortly before 3:30 a.m. Monday when the westbound 2023 Jeep Wrangler they were in veered off Interstate 8 west of Second Street in El Cajon, went down an embankment, struck a tree and caught fire, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office and California Highway Patrol.
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Aaron Perez, who had been driving, and his sister both died at the scene, the CHP reported.
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The cause of the crash was not yet confirmed.
