NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The young man identified by a coroner as the driver in a single-car crash that killed five teenagers did not have a driver's license or a learner's permit, California DMV officials said Wednesday.

Abdulrahman M. Alyahyan applied for a license after his 16th birthday in 2012 but the Saudi Arabian native didn't provide required documentation proving his legal presence in the U.S., said Jan Mendoza, a spokeswoman with the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Alyahan tried again in February, after turning 17, and had his picture taken by the DMV but still did not provide the proper documents, she said.
His application was still pending when he drove his Infiniti G35 into a tree in a single-car accident that also killed four teenage friends.

"This person was never licensed, period," Mendoza said.
The accident in Newport Beach split the car in half and left it engulfed in flames. Four of the teens were ejected and pronounced dead at the scene; a fifth died at a hospital.
The victims — two boys and three girls — were all enrolled at schools in the Irvine Unified School District and included a pair of sisters.
Speed was a factor in the crash, according to Newport Beach police.
Friends said Alyahyan was obsessed with his car and spent hours working on it and driving it around with his best friend, Nozad Al Hamawendi, who also died in the crash.
Alyahyan was a senior at University High School.
"Abdul loved cars. He took care of his car as if it was a human being," said friend Ibrahim Razzak, a junior at the school.
Alyahyan's passengers included 17-year-old Robin Cabrera, a senior at Irvine High, and her 16-year-old sister Aurora, a sophomore at the same school.
Also killed were Cecilia Zamora and Al Hamawendi, both 17-year-old juniors at Irvine High. Police declined to discuss the license status of any of the teens in the car, citing the ongoing investigation.
They also declined to say who was driving the car, although the Orange County coroner said Tuesday that Alyahyan was behind the wheel.
Orange County Superior Court records show Alyahyan was cited in April by Irvine police for violating the terms of a provisional license, modifying the exhaust system of his car and having an obstructed view.
The DMV said it had no record of those violations, which occurred as his license application was still pending.
Alyahyan's brother declined to give his name or speak to The Associated Press when reached by phone on Wednesday.
Autopsies were scheduled for Thursday and toxicology test results will take several weeks, said Jim Amormino, the Orange County sheriff's spokesman.
Friends said the five teens were headed to the beach for a fun Memorial Day when the tragedy unfolded on a busy thoroughfare that connects Orange County's interior with Pacific Coast Highway and its beaches.
Authorities said the wreck was one of the worst in Newport Beach in recent memory. The car hit a tree in the median, shearing it of its bark and leaving deep gouges in the trunk.
At least one of Alyahyan's friends, Tamer Mosallam, felt the Infiniti was a bit too much for such a young driver.
Mosallam was to have been the sixth teen on the beach outing, but backed out after his father ordered him to stay home and study for a test, he said.
"The car was too powerful for him. I've been in the car with him and I've driven it too," Mosallam told the AP. "It's not really a car that kids should be driving."

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I hope we dont know this guy.

 

Fvcking kids...

 

^ right?!? Too much power for them

 

Every one of us has been a dumb "fvucking kid" at some point in our life, maybe in different ways, but we all have done stupid things that could've gotten us and others killed or seriously injured. We were lucky to get off alright, these kids not so much.

Instead of cursing these kids who already suffered a tragic death due to a mistake, you should probably thank the stars that you, your loved ones, your friends your kids, your future kids were hopefully lucky enough to not be so harshly punished for poor judgment calls. Just think this could very well be your kids one day, just making one bad decision and then you would be childless. How would you feel knowing some stranger who doesn't have the slightest idea about your child is judging them how you are?

 

Alll baaaad.

 

Pisses me off. Completely. My first car a 1972 super beetle. Whopping 90 hp in those babies. I really hope he was not around on this forum.

 

If this is the same story, I believe he hit a tree in triple digits.

 

My daughter's first car was a Toyota Corrola. Her first motorcycle was a 250cc Kawi.

 

And you've never while you were an unexperienced teenage driver driven anywhere near or above 100mph? If so I bet you're among the minority on these forums.

 

It is way too much car for a kid and they were dumb for not wearing seatbelts in the first place! Especially in an Infiniti

 

yeah tbh it doesnt matter what car this kid drove. young and inexperienced. bad luck. no reason to bash em anymore. everyones been there

 

Quit your whining. I'm cursing the fact that people died because some KID didn't know WTF he was doing behind the wheel of a car he couldn't handle. And yes, I did stupid things when I was younger but obviously I had the common sense to know my limits and not end up dead. I never fvcked around while putting others at risk either. Unlike one of the victims in this story who managed to take the lives of four others. In my eyes this individual was being irresponsible, immature, stupid, reckless....etc. In other words: fvcking kid...

 

maybe he was that 17 year old where everyone was ***** wagging their top speeds on the street in his thread...

 

i heard bout this. i know it was an infiniti, a G sedan i guess,but looked too mangled to tell. sad.