Advanced Search

Date: 
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Travis Marton, 23, was killed after being struck by a car on Pacific Coast Highway near Newport Coast Road in Newport Beach at around 3 a.m ib New Year's Day. Thursday. A man has been booked on suspicion of felony hit-and-run. Marton's father said he had been in Newport visiting friends, but did not know why he had been walking on the highway. Within minutes of the initial call reporting the incident, Laguna Beach Police Department had located a cab with front end damage. Driver Ronald Lloyd Avlies, 56, was arrested, and is being held on $50,000 bail.