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Car crashes into pool along ‘rollercoaster road’ in Calif.

Couple were trapped in vehicle when it veered off road, landed upside down in pool

By R. Stickney, Megan Tevrizian and Lauren Steussy
NBC San Diego

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — An Escondido, Calif., woman was critically injured when a car went off the side of a road and landed upside down in a swimming pool along a stretch of road known to residents as “rollercoaster road.”

Ashley Garcia, 23, and her 33-year-old boyfriend were traveling along Calavo Drive just east of Nordahl Road just before midnight Monday.

NBC7 San Diego spoke to one of Garcia’s relatives at the hospital. He wouldn’t comment on Gracia’s condition or the crash, but asked for prayers during this difficult time.

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