Reed Whittaker, 29, killed, Primitivo Garcia, 53, arrested for DUI after his SUV rear-ends car in Livermore, California

A motorist who rear-ended and killed another driver on Interstate 580 in Livermore on Thursday was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter, authorities said. The collision happened shortly after 10 a.m., when Primitivo Garcia, 53, of Livermore failed to slow his Hummer for traffic and rear-ended a Jeep, causing the Jeep to burst into flames in the westbound lanes near North Livermore Avenue, said the CHP. The driver of the Jeep, Reed Whittaker, 29, of Livermore, died. Garcia was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving causing injury or death and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. He was being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $125,000 bail.