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- 3 Die in Orange After Car Skids off Wet Freeway
January 15, 1990
ORANGE - Three friends whose apparent desire for fun overcame warnings that it was too dangerous to drive were killed Sunday when their high-powered Ford Mustang convertible veered out of control on the rain-slicked Garden Grove Freeway and overturned.
Scott A. Dowling, 18, of Cypress; Jeffrey D. Trollinger, 19, of Garden Grove, and Dana P. Conner, 22, of Riverside died about 3:20 a.m., shortly after they snatched the car keys from a friend at a party who feared for their safety.
"I tried to tell them not to go," said Dan Pryor, Trollinger's best friend. "It was raining, it was late and the car was powerful. But Scott grabbed the keys and took off. Now, no one's going to drive it. They shouldn't make cars that powerful."
Dowling, a member of the football, wrestling and track teams at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, was a friend of Trollinger, who graduated from Pacifica in 1988. Conner had just moved from Garden Grove to a new home in Riverside and knew Trollinger from work at a McDonald's restaurant.
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