SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the names of the two victims who died when their car plunged down a hillside in the Deer Springs area last week.
Authorities said 17-year-old Andrew Manriquez and 19-year-old Hugo Alfredo Ramirez had just left a nearby party when the crash occurred on April 2.
The California Highway Patrol said the single-vehicle crash happened at around 10:30 p.m. off Lawrence Welk Court.
RELATED: 2 dead after car plunges down hillside in Deer Springs area
According to CHP officials, Ramirez was driving a 2016 Toyota Scion traveling eastbound on Lawrence Welk Court when -- for reasons unknown -- Ramirez veered off the roadway and down an embankment.
Authorities said they received a call from several people reporting that their friends had been in a crash and spotted the wreckage about 500 feet down a hillside.
Ramirez and Manriquez were pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation.
