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Nestled against a tree by the intersection of Studebaker Road and Spring Street is a memorial filled with candles and flowers honoring Kylee Sooter, a 29-year-old Long Beach woman who died in a high-speed crash that was so violent it jarred the neighborhood. - ADVERTISEMENT - Kylee was heading to work at a medical research center Thursday morning when she lost control of her car, hitting a planter box so fast that it caused her car to become airborne. Kylee’s family said she must have suffered an epileptic seizure behind the wheel, causing her to accelerate out of control.

- ADVERTISEMENT - Neighbors said the car appeared to have been traveling northbound on Studebaker Road at high speed when the driver crashed at Spring Street. Police said the driver, a 29-year-old Long Beach resident named Kylee Sooter, “may have experienced a medical emergency, causing her to lose control of her vehicle and accelerate at a high rate of speed.” After hitting a raised planter, the car flew into the air, “and struck multiple signs and a utility pole before coming to a rest upside down,” police said in a statement. Bob Aronson was watching TV around 6:15 a.m. when he hea...