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Burbank Man Sentenced To 23 Years To Life For Fatal Wrong-Way Traffic Collision On 14 Freeway

A Burbank man was sentenced to 23 years to life Friday for a fatal wrong-way traffic collision on the 14 freeway in June 2013.


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Bradford Pate, 40, of Burbank, has been sentenced in the crash that killed the Rev. Manard Giles, 77, and Mattie Lee Ferguson, 60, according to Ricardo Santiago, Spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Pate pleaded no contest to two murder charges, two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, a DUI causing injury and the charge of a DUI with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08 percent causing injury, said Los Angeles County District Attorney Spokesman Ricardo Santiago.

Pate was held to answer to all the charges against him at his preliminary hearing in February 2014, and his case has been continued more than a half-dozen times since then for various pretrial hearings.

He has been in jail since July 14, 2013, according to Sheriff’s Department arrest records.

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Brian Chang was the deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case on Friday.

Pate allegedly drove a 2006 Toyota Tundra south into the northbound lanes of Highway 14, near Escondido Canyon Road when he collided with a 2006 Chrysler 300, which swerved and struck a rideshare van, according to a CHP report.

Juan M. Zamora, 43, of Lancaster, drove the rideshare van, a 2013 Ford Econoline Minor. Zamora was transporting nine passengers to an aerospace work site in Palmdale, likely Plant 42.

Two passengers in the van sustained minor injuries. Efren Arrieta, 27, of Lancaster, and Patrick W. Glesby, 42, of Quartz Hill, was wounded with a cut to left arm.

The other passengers: David G. Moreno, 47, Palmdale; Jose Nario, 22, Palmdale; Javier Cobio, 41, Palmdale; Javier Arrieta, 25, Lancaster; and Alfonso Ramirez, 40, Palmdale were not injured.

Pate also sustained major injuries after his truck flipped and was sent to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia.

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Burbank Man Sentenced To 23 Years To Life For Fatal Wrong-Way Traffic Collision On 14 Freeway

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About Enzo Marino

Enzo became a staff writer at KHTS AM-1220 in June 2015. He is working towards his Associates Degree in New Media Journalism at College of the Canyons where he is currently involved with Cougar News, the on-campus student and community news outlet. Enzo’s passion for news started when he was an intern at KNBC-4 in Burbank