Illegal Entrant kills father of 4 - DUI

Driver in fatal Carson crash charged

CARSON: Man traveling 95 mph had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 when he slammed into a car driven by a father of four, police say.

By Larry Altman, Staff Writer

Article Launched: 01/15/2008 11:25:08 PM PST

A motorist's blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when his speeding truck plowed into a man's car, killing the man, in Carson last week, sheriff's deputies said Tuesday.

Quirino Mateo Antonio, 30, of Lomita, who was driving 95 mph with a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, was charged Tuesday with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and drunken driving causing death and injury.

The legal limit for driving in California is 0.08.

"He's facing a lot of time," Carson sheriff's traffic Investigator Jon Tedder said.

The Jan. 8 crash killed Juan Gabriel Ontiveros, a 32-year-old husband and father of four who was on his way home from his trucking job in Wilmington at 3:30 a.m. Investigators said Antonio was at the wheel of a Toyota Tacoma that hit Ontiveros' 1987 Cadillac Coupe Deville broadside at Sepulveda Boulevard and Wilmington Avenue.

In August 2003, Antonio was deported from the United States after he was detained in San Ysidro and determined to be an illegal immigrant, authorities said.

Antonio was ordered to leave the country and told he could not return legally for five years.